1. What
is the difference between assessment and evaluation?
Assessment is
the process to understand the state or condition of a thing. In the field of education,
assessment focuses on a learning objective and outcomes. It provides
information to for improving instruction and learning. Assessment is an
interactive process between instructors and students that inform instructors if
their teaching methods are effective. And how well their students are learning
what they are teaching. The assessment information must be used by instructors
to make changes in the learning environment and to improve their students’
learning and study habits.
Evaluation is the
process of observing and measuring a thing for the purpose of judging it and of
determining its value either by comparison to similar things, or to standards. In
education, evaluation focuses on classroom components other than course content
and mastery level such as discussion, cooperation, attendance, student behavior
and verbal ability.
2. What
are the challenges to assessment and evaluation in eLearning?
Assessment
and evaluation in eLearning environment encounter some challenges. First, In
online learning, where there is no face-to-face interaction, instructors are
particularly challenged to convey their intentions accurately and provide
appropriate feedback to help students achieve the targeted learning objectives
(Gibbs &
Simpson, 2004-2005). Second, if the instructors use online testing
tools that available on LMS/CMS and free tools that available on the internet
it is difficult to them to determine and ensure that the student taking the
test is the student taking the course not someone else. Third, in online
testing, students easily can use books or search the internet or other recourse.
Instructors cannot prevent students from cheating using books, internet or other
resource, students also can join together and cooperate to complete the test.
3.
Explain the possible use of an online portfolio in eLearning.
First possible
use of an online portfolio in e-learning is that instructor can use it as a
method to evaluate student’s academic achievement and progress. Second, an
important advantage of using portfolio in eLearning is the ability for student
to receive a range of feedback from their instructors, classmate, friends or
other quickly if they are developed any material. Third, students portfolio is
a reflection of students continuous progress during their study. It shows their
knowledge and experience that they have in their specialty. It is also specialist.
Portfolio could be used as an archive of students’ work, research, and resource
4.
Identify at least two ways to measure student participation in an online class
and explain how you think these methods can factor into the students' grade in
the course.
As Waterhouse
explained in his book that, there are two ways to measure student’s participation
in an online class. First, is to measure the quality and quantity of posting
for each discussion. A second way to assess student participation in online
class is to grade student on the time they spent on the course site. Many LMSs
can track the number of time student enter the course site, measure the total
time spent peer session. And record the amount of time spent in specific course
site area. In my view, student participation in an online class must have only
a little percentage of the final grade. I think that even in the classical face
to face class students participation take a little percentage in the final
grade. Moreover, student’s participation does not reflect the actual students’
performance. The quantity of posting does not reflect the amount of knowledge that
student has. Student easily can cut and past form the internet or take previous
student participations and use it in his course. I think that tracking the
number of time student spent on the course site is useless because if I spent
ten hours reading a book in the course topic it will not be accounted, while if
enter the course site and spent the time
on video game it will be accounted.
5.
Define peer evaluation and describe its advantages and disadvantages.
Peer evaluation
is an evaluation which instructors ask students to evaluate each other’s work, paper,
blog, posts and portfolio. It can be extremely helpful if the rules are clear
and designed in the way to help student learn from each other. The main
advantages of peer evaluation are: it encourages students to think critically. It
insure student involvement in the learning process.in peer evaluation student
have more time to provide a thoughtful feedback. Students can learn more from each
other work and experience. Finally, peer
evaluation can reduce the time and work load of evaluation for instructors. The
main disadvantages of peer evaluation are: the reliability and honesty of
evaluation due to the influence of friendship. Students have no experience in
evaluating each other.
6.
Describe a possible group assignment for an online class and explain how to
evaluate student performance in the group assignment.
Group assignment is a good way to get student interacting and
collaborating in online environment. A number of students can work together on project
that are too large for one student to complete. The hard task in group assignment
for an online class is to ensure effective communication tools between group
members. Group assignment can take many forms: Case study
where a group of
students is given a narrative description of a problematic situation and then
asked to identify or solve the problem. Group projects where student teams work
on projects, such as writing research papers, creating PowerPoint presentations
to be posted to the class. Students as teachers where a group of students
develops the presentation of a course topic for the rest of the class and poses
one or more questions for class discussion. Student performance in a team
assignment can be evaluated by instructor as a team and individually by asking
team members evaluate each another participating in the work.
Resource
rehttp://www.wpi.edu/Academics/ATC/Collaboratory/Teaching/groupwork.html
7.
Create an online test.
I like
to use proprofs online testing web tools. I created an online test for a chapter
in a book talking about educational research.
8.
Create a rubric or other grading aide for an online assignment.
I have
created general rubrics to online assessment activities. 1 means poor, 2 means fair, 3 means excellent.
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standards
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1
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2
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3
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Learning Objectives and outcomes
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Learning Objectives are not associated with assessment activities
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Learning Objectives are somewhat associated with assessment activities
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Learning Objectives are completely associated with assessment activities
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Learning
resources
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Assessment
activities and questions are not related to course resource
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Assessment
activities and questions are somewhat related to course resource
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Assessment
activities and questions are completely
related to course resource
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Clarity
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Activities
or test Instructions are not well explained
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Activities
or test Instructions are fairly explained
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Activities
or test Instructions are well explained
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Assessment
Strategies
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Assessment
strategies are used to measure content knowledge, attitudes and skills
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Ongoing
strategies are used to measure content knowledge, attitudes and skills.
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Ongoing
multiple assessment strategies are used to measure content knowledge,
attitudes and skills.
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Organization
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assessment
activities are poorly organized and planned
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assessment
activities are fairly organized and planned
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assessment
activities are well organized and planned
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