Online Assessment

Online Assessment

1. Identifying clear student learning outcomes

2. Collecting evidence that those outcomes are being addressed

3. Setting the stage to attain a collective interpretation of the data

   • Using data to improve both teaching and learning

4. Can be a tool for accountability

5. Formative & Summative

6. Concept mappyng

   • The ability to draw reasonable inferences from observations
   • The ability to synthesize and integrate information and ideas
   • The ability to learn concepts and theories in the subject area
   • Concept maps help students focus on the "big picture"
   • Concept maps force students to make valid connections among concepts
   • They provide a vehicle that enables knowledge,
   • LON-CAPA (Learning Online Network – Compute-Assisted Personalized Approach)
     • Respondus
       • It is a third- party software package that Works with Blackboard
         • Features
           •  Create exams and assessments office using a Windows interface.  Support up to 15 questions types, including calculated and algorithmic formats.  Add links to multimedia content on other servers with the Web Links tool.  Download answer databases for quizzes or surveys and save them in an Excel – compatible format.  Partners can download and customize the test banks associated with specific textbooks.
             • Download Respondus for home and office
               • Stepbystep
                 •  Logging into https://blackboard.vcu.edu  Click on the “Download & Help” tab.  Under “My Faculty Downloads”, clicking Respondus Download  Click Download Respondus now  Enter your eID and password (same as email and Blackboard)  Once download, navigate to the folder on your PC where you downloaded the Respondus installer and double-click the executable program file to launch the installations wizard.  Follow all prompts as direct until the Campus-wide License box appears. Enter the following:  Institution Name: Virginia Commonwealth University  Software Support: VCU Help Desk – 828-2227 or help@vcu.edu  Installation Password: <Emailed to the user and Provided on the Respondus Download page>
     • Peer Review and Peer Feedback
       • Features
         • Many studies on the usefulness of peer review in higher education particularly for facilitating inline learning.
           • Contradictory evidence as to the reliability and validity of peer assessment.
             • In the literature on the process of peer review particularly as a tool for providing feedback.
               • Students can misinterpret the assessment criteria, causing confusion when comparing peer to teacher feedback.
                 • “Peer Feedback” Led to deeper learning due to the evaluative processes used and the given and take of examining alternative approaches.
     • Functions as a distributed network system which permits the sharing of assessment items and learning objects both within and among participating institutions.
       • Features
         •  Content sharing and content reusability  Creation and grading of randomized homework, quizzes or exams.  A development group base that sustains a twice – yearly LON-CAPA release cycle to insure rapid incorporation of instructor- requested enhancements.  An open-source freeware system.
           • VCU Help Desk to set up a LON-CAPA course
             • Roles after you log in a course http://loncapa.vcu.edu/adm/roles
               •  Edit Course  Special Documents  Importing Published Documents  Search for Published Documents  Set/Modify Course Parameter Setting  Parameter Helper