E assessment

Deborah Judah Elearning advisor (HE)

•Paper-based

•Classroom based

•Formalised

•Synchronised

•Controlled

How much has really changed?

Problems

• Expensive

• Inflexible

• Drives teaching and learning

• Does not test contemporary

skillsBut it has political and public confidence

Students perceptions

Artificial and contrived

Something done to me

Doesn’t measure what I need to know

A hoop to be jumped through

•Artificial and contrived•Something done to them•Doesn’t measure what they have learnt•Hoop to be jumped through

Adding the e

• Authentic• Personal• Negotiable• Collaborative• Tests many skills• Feedback

Benefits

• Can assess different media• Embed into VLE• Stand alone system• Familiar to students • Enhanced learning experience• Efficiencies in marking

Challenges

• Plagiarism• Authentication• Upskilling assessors• Assessing what has

been taught• Encouraging deep

learning• Cost

What so you want to assess

• Knowledge

• Skills

• Collaboration

• Critical thinking

• Reflection

Assessment Cycle

Discuss evidence

Organise evidence

Appraise evidence

Create evidence

Capture evidence

Ways to assess

• Learning on the move• Eportfolios• Audio and video feedback• Digital storytelling• Blogs, wikis and forums

Tools to use….

Case Studies –e asessment

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/digiassess.aspx

• http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/36343.html

• http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=169207

Case studies – Blogging, eportfolios

http://dancernikki9.blogspot.com http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/portfolio.php http://www.educause.edu/Resources/UsingBlogsforF

ormativeAssessme/161993 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/foggo/ http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/8545/ http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/case-studies/e-portfoli

os http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/eportfolios/about/ http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=

166942

Case Studies – Audio and Video Feedback

• http://sites.google.com/site/soundsgooduk/

• Media Enhanced ‐ Feedback case studies and methods Nerantzi, C (2011)

• http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/assessmentmatters/about/academic-feedback/for-staff/effective-practice-examples/new/

• Evaluating audio feedback for summative and formative assessment France, D & Lynch, K

Case Studies – Collaboration

• Twitter http://www.centreforworkandlearning.org.uk/news/video-asher-ropigliosi-using-twitter-for-e-assessment-at-a-highe

• Wikis www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet26/judd.pdf