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Guidelines for online assessment for educators, Education in the…
Guidelines for online assessment for educators
Supports teachers to use new strategies in online classes
Education in the developing world
Efforts to improve the economic and social lot of people living in the developing world
MDG2:Universal Primary Education
Ensure that all children have a primary education
SDG4:Quality of Education
Seeks to provide an equal education taking into account the needs of each student and improving individual well-being
The Role of ICT in Open and Distance Learning in the Developing
World
Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within
a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society
Keys
The availability of reliable and affordable electricity.
The expansion of Internet connectivity.
The professional development of teachers and teacher educators.
Raising awareness of the value of teachers.
Implementing sustainable ICT projects.
CLARIFYING THE CONCEPT “ONLINE ASSESSMENT”
The general principles that apply to the setting of face-to-face assessment tasks naturally also apply to the setting of online
assessment tasks
Benefits of Online Assessment
In the case of multiple-choice questions, distractors can be randomized
• Test items can be tagged by level of difficulty.
• “Pools” of test items can be used from which the tool can randomly assign different test items to different students
Techniques of Online Assessment
The principles of universal design for learning (UDL) in traditional assessment can also be applied
in the online assessment world.
Multiple-choice tests
A great advantage of online multiple-choice tests is that they
are easy to administer
True-or-false items
Traditional true-or-false question items require students to indicate which of two potential
responses is true
Essays
Essays are flexible and can assess higher-order learning skills
Short-answer tests
These test items require the student to fill in a word or phrase in response to a direct question, or to enter a word or phrase
that was left out of a statement
Online games
Student journaling, blogging and wiki building
Many LMSs provide functionalities for student journaling, blogging or wiki building. There are also
tools freely available on the Internet.
Online, digital or ePortfolios
Typically, a portfolio is a collection of student work that is organised, reflected upon and presented
to show content comprehension and learning growth over a period of time
Further Dimensions of Online Assessment
The use of online assessment tools exploits the affordances of online tools in several other ways that
are directly linked to assessment practices
Learning analytics
Embbeding the students learning experience in a LMS allows the teacher to monitor data such as the amount of time spent online and
which pages were accessed
Self- and peer-assessment tasks
elevate the role and status of students as assessors
• encourage a deeper approach to learning
• involving students in critical reflection.