Short presentation to introduce the concept of e assessment and the benefits and challenges

1. E assessment
Deborah Judah
Elearning advisor (HE)

2. How much has really changed?
•Paper-based
•Classroom based
•Formalised
•Synchronised
•Controlled

3. Problems
• Expensive
• Inflexible
• Drives teaching and learning
• Does not test contemporary
skills
But it has political and public confidence

4. Students perceptions
•Artificial contrived
Artificial andand contrived
•Something done to
Something done to me them
•Doesn’t measure what they
Doesn’t measure what I need to know
have learnt
A •Hoop to be jumped through
hoop to be jumped through

5. Adding the e
• Authentic
• Personal
• Negotiable
• Collaborative
• Tests many skills
• Feedback

6. Benefits
• Can assess different media
• Embed into VLE
• Stand alone system
• Familiar to students
• Enhanced learning experience
• Efficiencies in marking

7. Challenges
• Plagiarism
• Authentication
• Upskilling assessors
• Assessing what has
been taught
• Encouraging deep
learning
• Cost

8. What so you want to assess
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Collaboration
• Critical thinking
• Reflection

9. Assessment Cycle
Create
evidence
Discuss Capture
evidence evidence
Appraise Organise
evidence evidence

10. Ways to assess
• Learning on the move
• Eportfolios
• Audio and video feedback
• Digital storytelling
• Blogs, wikis and forums

11. Tools to use….

13. Case Studies –easessment
• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programm
erelated/2010/digiassess.aspx
• http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/36343.html
• http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.as
px?o=169207

14. Case studies – Blogging, eportfolios
 http://dancernikki9.blogspot.com
 http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/portfolio.php
 http://www.educause.edu/Resources/UsingBlogsforForm
ativeAssessme/161993
 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/foggo/
 http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/8545/
 http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/case-studies/e-portfolios
 http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/eportfolios/about/
 http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=166
942

15. Case Studies – Audio and Video
Feedback
• http://sites.google.com/site/soundsgooduk/
• Media‐Enhanced Feedback case studies and
methods Nerantzi, C (2011)
• http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/assessmentmatters/
about/academic-feedback/for-staff/effective-
practice-examples/new/
• Evaluating audio feedback for summative and
formative assessment France, D & Lynch, K

16. Case Studies – Collaboration
• Twitter http://www.centreforworkandlearning.org.uk/news/video-asher-
ropigliosi-using-twitter-for-e-assessment-at-a-highe
• Wikis
www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet26/judd.pdf