best practices & what works in online learning assessments renee welch & karin riggs...
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Best Practices & What Works in Online Learning
Assessments
Renee Welch & Karin RiggsExternal Education
September 28, 2006
Evaluation & Grades
“Evaluation is a method, which may or may not be graded, of eliciting a performance or demonstration of knowledge or skills from a student”.
“Grades are the descriptive faculty evaluation of an individual student's performance in a given course, test, or assignment. Grades oftentimes incorporate participation, attendance and/or extra credit, which are not true components of assessment of learning outcomes”.
http://www.wccnet.edu/departments/curriculum/assessment.php?levelone=gradeseval
Assessment
“Assessment is the examination of whether students as a whole are achieving the learning outcomes which have been developed by the department for a course or program. Assessment provides the "big picture" of whether students are meeting learning objectives”.
http://www.wccnet.edu/departments/curriculum/assessment.php?levelone=gradeseval
Good Assessment
• Measures meaningful learning outcomes • Easy to administer, score, interpret• Informs the teacher about student performance• Provides meaningful feedback to the learner• Contributes to the learning process
http://vudat.msu.edu/assess-perform
Types of Assessment
• Pre and Post Test• Objective & Subjective Assessment• Self-Assessments & Practice exams• Group Projects• Discussion Participation• Peer Review• Interactive assessments
Assessment Plan Considerations• What do you want students to learn?• What knowledge do they already have?• Which assessment methods best test what was learned
by learners?• Will you test memorization or performance?• How will assessment be graded, what percentage in
grades?• Size of class, small numbers vs high enrollment course?• How many assessments should you include?• How will students receive feedback?• How will you grade, do you need TA support?
Communicating Expectations
Learning ObjectivesGrading Criteria
Explanation of participationCalendar of assignments and assessments
Providing Feedback
Am I on the right track?
•Online gradebook
•Self-assessments
•Peer Reviews
•Formation of assignments and assessments
Content Mapping
Respondus & StudyMate
• http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/itl/respondus.html• 2 great choices to increase your assessment options.• Both work essentially the same way: download them for
free at: http://e-sales.accc.uic.edu then…– Run a search for Respondus. Once on the download
page be sure to note all installation instructions, including the installation password, used for both Respondus and StudyMate… when you find Respondus, StudyMate will download as well.
Both applications have a very easy interface…
1. Create a new file
2. Add some questions
3. View the exam
4. Publish to Blackboard
Easy to create questions- no need to be ONLINE
Studymate allows for questions to be in different formats…
MATCHING
FLASH CARDS
It’s easy to “publish” your new assessment to Blackboard… Follow along the Wizard…
1. open your browser, go to the Blackboard "Login" page 2. copy the "address" of the page from the browser3. Paste into the top field in the Respondus wizard… THEN4. In your browser go to the course you want to use, 5. go the to the "control panel" page and copy the address6. Paste into the second field in the Respondus wizard… THEN7. Press extract...
Field #1=The BB log in pageAddress…
Field #2= The control panel pageAddress…
Press EXTRACT
Other Blackboard features…
• Grading
• Rubrics
• Gradebook
• Cheating
• Safe Assignment
• ePortfolios
For more information contact:
Renee Welch, [email protected]
312.355.1767
Karin [email protected]
www.externaledu.uic.edu