Introduction to Assessment and Evaluation Tools in Online Learning

ByRamel Moore

Achieving excellence in online learning

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What is assessment and evaluation?

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Assessment

Assessment is defined as data-gathering strategies, analyses, and reporting processes that provide information that can be used to determine whether or not intended outcomes are being achieved.[1]

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Evaluation

Evaluation uses assessment information to support decisions on maintaining, changing, or discarding instructional or programmatic practices.[2]

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Evaluation

• Formative - The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. More specifically, formative assessments:– help students identify their strengths and

weaknesses and target areas that need work– help faculty recognize where students are

struggling and address problems immediately

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Summative

• The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.

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Assessment and Evaluation Strategies

These strategies can inform:

• The nature and extent of learning,

• Facilitate curricular decision making,

• Correspondence between learning and the aims and objectives of teaching, and

• The relationship between learning and the environments in which learning takes place.[3]

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Instruments/Tools

Assessment instruments and processes can be used to collect data on many different attributes and performance characteristics. Instruments designed to collect the data may be placed into one of three broad categories: – Content Knowledge– Student Interest, Perceptions, and Attitudes– Process Knowledge, teamwork, design

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Examples of Assessment Activities and Tools

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einstruction Mobi

• Mobi is the first mobile interactive whiteboard designed to support student-centered active learning and give educators the mobility and flexibility to deliver engaging lessons from anywhere in the room.

• As an assessment/evaluation tool, Mobi can be used check understanding of content, practice and review activities, as well as warm up and cool down activities.

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Rubrics • The Rubric is an authentic

assessment tool which is particularly useful in assessing criteria which are complex and subjective.

• Authentic assessment is geared toward assessment methods which correspond as closely as possible to real world experience.

• Authentic assessment takes this principle of evaluating real work into all areas of the curriculum.

• The instructor observes the student in the process of working on something real, provides feedback, monitors the student's use of the feedback, and adjusts instruction and evaluation accordingly.

• It is a formative type of assessment because it becomes an ongoing part of the whole teaching and learning process

• This involvement empowers the students and as a result, their learning becomes more focused and self-directed.

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Chatzy• Chatzy is a free private

chat service which you can use to communicate with people you already know or people who visits your blog or website. With Chatzy you can create a chatroom and send out email invitations very quickly and easily. No registration is required.

• Emoticons• Multiline Messages• Bullets & Numbered

Lists• YouTube Videos• Internet Images• Webcams• HTML and JavaScript• Spam Control• Review Mode

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Glogs

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Student-Generated Questions

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Feedback

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References

• Gagne, R.M., L.J. Bridges, and W.W. Wagne. 1998. Principles of Instructional Design. Orlando, FL: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

• Hanson, G., and B. Price. 1992. Academic Program Review. In: M. A. Wjitley, J. D. Porter, and R. H. Fenske (eds.). The Primer for Institutional Research. Tallahassee: Association for Institutional Research.

• Satterly, D. 1989. Assessment in schools. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell Ltd.

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