Using Online Environments to Promote Assessment as a Learning Enhancement Process

Conclusions

The cases presented, highlighted a number of factors that can optimize attempts to change assessment practices. When teaching staff are reflective about how they assess, have some dissatisfaction about existing practices, and have a deep commitment to student learning and to improving outcomes for students, they are more likely to change how they assess.

 

In particular, they are more inclined to implement formative assessment tasks that are authentic in nature and encourage meaningful engagement and learning throughout the semester. The tasks chosen are often continuous in the sense that they build on a previous piece and culminate in a final substantive report or multimedia submission for grading purposes. It follows that institutions that establish formal mechanisms to encourage commitment to improving teaching and assessment, help develop practitioner expertise through professional development, and reward staff who are involved, are more likely to create the conditions that facilitate change.

 

The cases also indicate that broader, well-considered use of online environments and multimedia does have the potential to enrich assessment and learning. In particular, it enables the efficient delivery of more formative assessment approaches that can lead to more immersive engagement and deeper understandings. To foster the best possible use of such technologies, institutions need to attend to a number of aspects critical to successful use. First, policies that focus on extended use of digital and online technologies need to be developed. Second, technical and administrative systems that reinforce traditional assessment practices and academic culture need to be overhauled. Third, operational plans for enacting policy across the institution need to be drawn up and implemented. Finally, targeted, just-in-time professional development programs and technical support need to be delivered.

 

A further implication of the cases discussed is that if institutions create a climate where staff feel they can take risks in implementing innovation, changes in teaching practice including assessment are more likely to occur. Related to this is the need for students to be made aware that an innovative approach is being trialed and that, if any difficulties arise, their academic results will not be compromised.

 

While further research is needed to corroborate the commonalities that arose in the cases reported, the indications are that more could be done at an institutional level to foster the development of reflective practitioners by encouraging emphasis on innovations in assessment practice.

الاكثر قراءة في Teaching Strategies

Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Additional Educational Needs (AEN)

Historical perspectives The twenty-first century

What are the issues for schools? Responding to ALL learners needs

Recent legislation, Additional Educational Needs (AEN) and inclusion Historical perspectives

Developing social skills and understanding

Language

Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)/dyslexia

What is culture?

Understanding the needs of children with physical and sensory disabilities

Travellers in Britain

Culture, language and learning

Application of the SOLO taxonomy

Cultural issues and schools Conclusion

Bilingual learners

Asylum seekers

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

قسم العلاقات العامة يناقش مع منتدى شباب الإسكان إقامة مهرجان تكريم طالبات المدارس المرتديات العباءة في القادسية

سماحة السيد الصافي يدعو إلى توحيد الجهود في تحقيق التراث لضمان الرصانة والدقة وخدمة الساحة العلمية

المجمع العلمي ينظم محاضرة إرشادية ضمن المشروع القرآني في مدارس بابل

بذكرى شهادته.. العتبة العباسية المقدسة تشرع في تقديم خدماتها لزائري مرقد الإمام الكاظم (عليه السلام)

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

6 فواكة تساعدك على الشعور بتحسّن عند المرض

حفاظا على صحة العين.. هذا أفضل وقت لتناول فيتامين أ

الاستخدام اليومي لسماعات الأذن.. أخطر مما تتصور !

هل توقيت نشاطك اليومي يؤثر على صحة دماغك؟.. العلماء يجيبون

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

ابتكار ألماني قد يغيّر مستقبل صناعة البلاستيك

تحديثات وأرباح عبر المشاهدات.. ما الذي تخطط له "لينكد إن"؟

"الكوكايين الوردي".. مخدر جديد يثير قلق السلطات الأميركية

دراسة: تغيّرات في أسلوب القيادة قد تكشف مبكرا عن الخرف !

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Parents with Learning Disabilities CONCLUSION

PROVISION OF SUPPORT

CARING FOR CHILDREN

EUGENICS AND ETHICAL ISSUES

PARENTING

DISCRIMINATION AND DIVERSITY

THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Parents with Learning Disabilities

Legislation and Learning Disabilities CONCLUSION

LEGAL SAFEGUARDS

MENTAL CAPACITY ACT 2005

THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998