(e)-Assessment: Discussing the future

Dr JP Bosman

9 May 2012

Faculty of Health Sciences

I am going to …

1. Get an idea of the lie of the land

Photo Kees von Mansom - Flickr

Then I am going to …

2. Dazzle you with e-assessment wonders

Finally we are going to …

• 3. Start preparing the soil for the next steps

I am going to

1. Get an idea of the lie of the land

Photo Kees von Mansom - Flickr

Let’s start with the blurb

e-Assessment – visions for the future

Are you frustrated with the limited assessment options offered in the current Webstudies system? Do you have a sense that e-assessment could and should be more than online multiple choice questions and Turnitin? Or maybe you are curious about more innovative possibilities in the e-assessment realm that would allow better alignment with module outcomes? Then this lunch-hour discussion is the place to be! Come listen to and look at e-assessment ideas, and bring your own relevant examples from your discipline.

Let’s do a quick brainstorm

E-Assessment (now) happening in FHS• …..

Now I am going to …

2. Dazzle you with e-assessment wonders

e-assessment examples

• Diagnostic assessment (support or remedial)• Audience Response Systems (Clickers, web-based)• Maties Mobile connect (Marietjie Lutz)

• Formative assessment (assessment for learning)• InkSurvey (HP Catalyst project)• Web-conferencing (CHECET course Adobe Connect)

• Summative assessment (thus assessment of learning)• Digital stories (Horticulture)• Wikis (CHEC Emerging Technologies)

• Assessment Feedback (assessment for the advancement of quality)• Podcasts (Mphil HSE module)• Blogs and Facebook – reflection through comments (CHECET)

Diagnostic

Maties Mobile connect (Marietjie Lutz)

Formative 1

InkSurvey (HP Catalyst project)

http://ticc.mines.edu/hp/survey.php/Jptest/

A classroom tool for real-time formative assessment – Frank & Susan Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines

Formative 2

Web-conferencing (CHECET Adobe Connect)

Summative 1

Digital stories (Michael Schmeisser - Horticulture)

Summative 2

Wikis (CHEC Emerging Technologies)

Feedback 1

Podcasts (Mphil HSE e-module)

Feedback 2

Blogs & Facebook – reflection + comments (CHECET)

We am going to

• 3. Start preparing the soil for the next steps

Let’s watch a video?

• JISC Video on Effective Assessment in a digital age• What are the main take-away messages of

the video?• Short discussion

Ideas for the future

• Webstudies (resurrected) for 2013:• Image hot spot question (yes)• Blogs (yes)• Wikis (yes)• Rubrics (yes)

• …

Thank you