Assessment & Feedback
Online Faculty Development Course
Last week we looked at two forms of online activities that can form assessments in a course. This week, let's get back to fundamentals on how and why we assess in our courses, so we can consider assessments in the online sphere.
"Test early and often," Linda Nilson and Ludwika Goodson wryly counsel. We'll look at various ways you can use short assessments to help you, and just as importantly your students, gauge their learning performance.
As before, much of this may be familiar to you, and we revisit things we've looked at in the previous weeks. But it is helpful to review pedagogy when planning to teach online, encouraging us to discover ways that online education offers new opportunities.
Assessment Resource
A handy guide to assessment for college faculty, courtesy of UMASS-Amherst.
Professor and Poet Sterling Allen Brown, Howard University, 1929-1969. Smithsonian Institution.
In the Week 5 Activity, we'll build a short quiz and a small gradebook. But in this lesson we'll also look at some other important features for course management, as well.
Objectives
Review types and purposes of assessment.
Explore possibilities for online assessment tools: quizzes, exams, surveys.
Consider grade reporting options for students.