Using Online Environments to Promote Assessment as a Learning Enhancement Process

Conclusions

The cases presented, highlighted a number of factors that can optimize attempts to change assessment practices. When teaching staff are reflective about how they assess, have some dissatisfaction about existing practices, and have a deep commitment to student learning and to improving outcomes for students, they are more likely to change how they assess.

 

In particular, they are more inclined to implement formative assessment tasks that are authentic in nature and encourage meaningful engagement and learning throughout the semester. The tasks chosen are often continuous in the sense that they build on a previous piece and culminate in a final substantive report or multimedia submission for grading purposes. It follows that institutions that establish formal mechanisms to encourage commitment to improving teaching and assessment, help develop practitioner expertise through professional development, and reward staff who are involved, are more likely to create the conditions that facilitate change.

 

The cases also indicate that broader, well-considered use of online environments and multimedia does have the potential to enrich assessment and learning. In particular, it enables the efficient delivery of more formative assessment approaches that can lead to more immersive engagement and deeper understandings. To foster the best possible use of such technologies, institutions need to attend to a number of aspects critical to successful use. First, policies that focus on extended use of digital and online technologies need to be developed. Second, technical and administrative systems that reinforce traditional assessment practices and academic culture need to be overhauled. Third, operational plans for enacting policy across the institution need to be drawn up and implemented. Finally, targeted, just-in-time professional development programs and technical support need to be delivered.

 

A further implication of the cases discussed is that if institutions create a climate where staff feel they can take risks in implementing innovation, changes in teaching practice including assessment are more likely to occur. Related to this is the need for students to be made aware that an innovative approach is being trialed and that, if any difficulties arise, their academic results will not be compromised.

 

While further research is needed to corroborate the commonalities that arose in the cases reported, the indications are that more could be done at an institutional level to foster the development of reflective practitioners by encouraging emphasis on innovations in assessment practice.

الاكثر قراءة في Teaching Strategies

Recent legislation, Additional Educational Needs (AEN) and inclusion Historical perspectives

Application of the SOLO taxonomy

Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Additional Educational Needs (AEN)

Language

What are the issues for schools? Responding to ALL learners needs

Historical perspectives The twenty-first century

Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)/dyslexia

Developing social skills and understanding

What is culture?

Cultural issues and schools Conclusion

Bilingual learners

Understanding the needs of children with physical and sensory disabilities

Culture, language and learning

Travellers in Britain

Asylum seekers

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

مركز دار العلم للدراسات العقدية والتاريخية يقدم خدمات متنوعة لزائري الأربعين

متحف الكفيل يعلن عن استقبال أكثر من 130 ألف زائرٍ خلال زيارة الأربعين

فرقة العباس (عليه السلام) تنظم مسيرة عزائية وتحصي خدماتها المقدمة لزائري الأربعين

معتمدة على منظومة عدّ إلكتروني دقيقة العتبة العباسية المقدسة تعلن أعداد الزائرين المشاركين في إحياء زيارة الأربعين

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

9 أسباب شائعة للرؤية الضبابية يجب معرفتها

تتناولها كل يوم.. 10 وجبات شائعة غنية بـ"السكر الخفي"

7 أسباب شائعة لفقدان الشهية لدى كبار السن

7 فواكه قد تسبب قفزة مفاجئة في سكر الدم

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

هل تشغيل تكييف السيارة على "الحد الأقصى" ضار؟

دور المكابح في تحسين كفاءة استهلاك الوقود بالسيارات

بالذكاء الاصطناعي.. باحثون يبتكرون مضادات جديدة لنوعين من العدوى البكتيرية

فيتامين سي والتجاعيد.. طبيب يكشف وقت الاستخدام الصحيح

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Research methodology

Conceptualizing Assessment for Online Delivery: Educational Developers Perspectives

Commonalities across the cases

Case 4 Peer assessment

Case 3 Project based assessment

Case 2 Online portfolio and group multimedia project

Results, analysis and discussion Case 1 Online role play

Research methodology

The research context

Literature review Characteristics of good assessment practice

Using Online Environments to Promote Assessment as a Learning Enhancement Process

Utilizing an ICT Tool for Moderating, Marking and Managing Assessment in Large Tertiary Classes Conclusions