6. You want better assessment of student learning, formative or summative.
MEASUREMENT OF PROGRESS
Robin K. Hill
University of Wyoming
For formative assessment, use an online course to give ungraded quizzes, where you can view the results and statistics, and students can see feedback from you on both correct and incorrect answers. For summative assessments, such as exams that count toward the grade, let the online platform score the multiple-choice and other machine-gradable questions.
COSC 2010-06 Exam
Pedagogy: Closed-book online quizzes, taken outside class, are best used for self-assessment. Make use of the feedback options to explain common misconceptions and to redirect study. If you give graded exams online, provide a practice exam first.
Platform:
- Exams should offer separate sections with associated introductory text, conditional questioning, and conditional feedback.
- Instructor should be able to mark one question at a time, across all quizzes.
- Exam records should include individual student attempts with timestamps, counts, statistics and summaries, over class, assignment, and individual.
- Tools should compile exam components for file export or printing, at granularities from the full exam down to the individual question.
- Assignments should provide associated rubrics, developed by instructor in table form, with statistics on scored elements.
- Import of student data should be available, for discretionary attributes maintained by instructors.
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