Elke's E-Learning Journey

My first blog ever, originally for the LearnScope 2006 project, and which is now the sometime record of my journey into learning about and implementing an elearning strategy for my training organisation

Friday, July 07, 2006

assessing on line link - a starting point

Need to follow this forum group of postings. Subscribing to forums and rss feeds is proving a useful way of keeping track of ideas without chasing lots of individual websites.
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/mod/wiki/view.php?id=9647
Jenni Harding's Assessing Online
Assessing online
Such a controversial topic – can you, can’t you, will everybody cheat, or it collaborating? In our world of training packages assessment, particularly work-based assessment, plays a bigger and bigger role. Integration of learning and assessment is still feasible, and in this area online assessment/learning activities are a great tool to make learning and assessment much more fun.
Range of ways and tools to assess onlineOn-line assessment is but one of many modes that may be used to indicate to students which aspects of their learning are valued and will be rewarded. The use of on-line tools to assess learner progress toward subject objectives can take many forms including:
· The online quiz: see http://quizstar.4teachers.org/instructor/class_page.jsp?pl=cm&cid=51638 AND TRY THE QUIZ about assessing online!
· Electronic submission of written assignments
· Parallel print and on-line assessment options where students are given the choice of whether and how they use on-line tools in assessment tasks
· Publication of documents on the web
· Labelling of on-line diagrams
· Manipulation of on-line graphs
· Completion of short-answer and multiple choice questions
· On-line exams with monitored and controlled start and stop times
· Any formative or summative task carried out in a web-based environment. (And that include voice!)
Find out more!The most incredible example of a whole range of strategies can be viewed at:
http://flexiblelearning.net.au/designing/assessing/
A great resource to read at http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/03/online.html , which will further explain how to start (exactly as you would with any other type of assessment – according to learner and teacher needs, and the learning outcomes). It has 34 strategies relating to assessing online.
How can you do it?Quizstar is free, access at http://quizstar.4teachers.org/instructor/class_page.jsp?pl=cm&cid=51 638· Write up your assessments as Word documents for uploading, emailing and downloading· Use the tasks in the Flexible Learning toolboxes as the basis for assessment events – have a look at the Training and Assessment Toolbox, http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/toolbox/series6/607.htm specifically the unit TAAENV403A Foster and promote an inclusive learning environment· Start with an area which you know you will be successful with, and don’t give up in your faith to know whether any work is copied when you’ve asked for it not to be – you’ve built up the trust and respect whether online or off, so you have a lot of indicators as to whether work is the learner’s own.

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