White paper
Assessment and e-learning
Assess this!
Niels Bohr, father of the quantum model of the atom and the only
Dane to win the Nobel prize for physics, once took a physics exam
in which he was asked to determine the height of a skyscraper with
a barometer (so the no-doubt apochryphal story goes): 'Tie a long
string to the barometer,' he answered, 'lower it to the ground.
The height of the building is the length of the string plus the
length of the barometer'.
The examiner failed him.
He protested and was given a second chance. At his hearing he gave
four different and equally valid answers - none of which was the
answer required by the examiner.
One of the abiding anxieties we have about exams is that they don't
assess the right thing. There are also concerns about the effect
on motivation of too much testing, the disruption it causes, the
fact that too much assessment is end-of-course (summative) rather
than continuous (formative) and the sheer workload it adds for both
examiners and examinees.
In other words, assessment itself scores pretty badly!
Find out what online technologies can do to improve the situation
in this stimulating new white paper from Donald Clark,
Epic.
White Paper: Assessment and e-learning
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Summary of contents:
- Assessing assessment
- Why assess?
- What to assess?
- How to assess?
- Assessing knowledge
- Assessing procedural skills
- Assessing mental skills
- Assessing interpersonal skills
- Assessing psychomotor skills
- Assessing attitudes
- Assessing personality
- Practical online assessment
- Option design
- Feedback
- Scoring
- Timed assessment
- Presentation
- Binary Choice
- Multiple Choice
- Reorder list
- Open input
- Drag and drop
- Randomised questions
- Proprietary assessment items
- Matrix assessment
- Practical online tutor assessment
- Submitted assignments
- Online portfolio submissions
- Online cases study work
- Online data analysis
- Online peer assessment
- Online plagiarism and cheating
- High-tech cheating
- Cheat sites
- Check for cheats
- Technology
- Conclusion
- References
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