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Guidelines for Online Assessment for Educators - Coggle Diagram
Guidelines for Online Assessment for Educators
Online Assessment
General face to face principles apply in O.A too.
Benefits
Test items can be randomised.
Distractors can be randomised.
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.
Some types of test items can be scored by the tool that is used.
Online tools can give immediate feedback to students.
Online tools can perform item analyses on the test items.
Techniques of Online Assessment
Multiple Choice Tests.
True or False Items.
Essays.
Short Answer Tests.
Online Games.
Student journaling, blogging and wiki building.
Online, digital or ePortfolios.
Further Dimensions of Online Assessment
Learning analytics.
The Society for Learning Analytics and Research (SoLAR) defines this as “the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs” (Khalil & Ebner, 2016).
Self- and peer-assessment tasks.
Increase student responsibility and autonomy.
Achieve a more advanced and deeper understanding of the subject matter, skills and processes.
Elevate the role and status of students as assessors.
Encourage a deeper approach to learning.
Involving students in critical reflection.
Develop in students a better understanding of their own subjectivity and judgement.
WHAT INFORMS GOOD ONLINE
ASSESSMENT PRACTICE
Balance between Formative and Summative Assessment Tasks.
Authentic Learning and Assessment.
Development of 21st-century Skills.
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy.
Consider the Differences between Print Medium and Online
Medium.
PRINCIPLES FOR ONLINE ASSESSMENT
Longitudinal Reflection.
Higher-quality Feedback.
Readymade Tools.
Technology-enabled Authentic Learning.
Enhanced Collaboration.
Exploit a Variety of Techniques.
Address Diversity.
Prepare IT and People.
Monitor and Remediate.
Web Design Best Practices.