Assessment in Learning

Assessment Practices

• Assessment is the process of identifying, gathering, and interpreting information about students' learning.
• Assessment involves using various methods and tools to evaluate, measure, and document student learning.
• Assessment helps improve learning and set direction for ongoing teaching and learning processes.

Types of Assessment

• Formative assessment provides feedback and information during the instructional process, while learning is taking place.
• Summative assessment takes place after learning has been completed and provides information and feedback that sums up the teaching and learning process.

Online Interviews

• Online interviews can be incorporated into online teaching to give learning a more personal touch.
• Brief online interviews can be used to demonstrate proficiency in language, music, nursing, and other courses.
• Group interviews can be beneficial for team project reports.
• Interviews can include a mentoring component, enabling students to receive immediate feedback from instructors.

Dialogue Simulations

• Dialogue simulations are a way to train learners for real-life conversations with customers, colleagues, and others.
• Dialogue simulations can help students master sales and customer service skills or test how well they are prepared for a job interview.
• These activities can be a good learning support tool for experienced workers who want to refresh skills they haven’t used in a while.

Online Assessment Tools

• Blogs can be used to monitor students’ understanding and progression over time.
• ICT capabilities, such as integration and embedding of relevant images, videos, and games, can be easily assessed.
• Wikis can be used to effectively assess students’ abilities to work collaboratively and share ideas with one another.
• Twitter can be used to provide feedback on assessments or to provide short and concise responses to questions posed.

Netiquette for Online Communities

• Netiquette is a set of guidelines for courteous communication in the online environment.
• Netiquette guidelines include rules for social interaction and technical activities on the internet.
• The core netiquette rules include:
  • Remembering that there is a human on the other side of digital interactions.
  • Applying normal standards of behavior to online behavior.
  • Being aware of context and tailoring communications accordingly.
  • Respecting other people's time and bandwidth.
  • Avoiding posting content that will embarrass you and make you look bad.
  • Prioritizing and sharing content from verifiable, expert sources.
  • Avoiding excessive trolling and flaming.
  • Respecting human privacy and not using digital technology to spy on others.
  • Being graceful and forgiving people their mistakes.

Digital Footprints

• A digital footprint is the unseen record of a user's activities online, including the websites they visit and the files and apps they download.
• Digital footprints can exist in passive or active forms.
• Implications of a student's digital footprint include:
  • Inappropriate content remaining online indefinitely unless removed.
  • Predators and hackers accessing location data through social media pictures.
  • Colleges and potential employers examining a student's digital footprint to determine whether they want to admit or hire the student.
  • Social media and search engines revealing information a student doesn't know is still online.