assessment

Examples of assessment in the following topics:

• Assessment Strategies

  • Educators can use many different assessment strategies, each offering its own strengths and weaknesses, to assess their students.
  • Such forms of assessments are referred to as "authentic assessment" or, more neutrally, as "alternative assessment. " Authentic assessment strategies can be used in almost any types of courses, even those that more often use traditional forms of assessment.
  • No matter the type of assessment, the following two best practices should guide all instructors' assessment strategies.
  • Students cannot perform well on any assessment if, in the time leading up to the assessment, there is uncertainty surrounding just what is to be known or done.
  • But they should recognize that different students succeed in different assessment venues, and, thereby, to try to incorporate a few different types of assessments over the course of a unit.

• Formative Assessment vs Summative Assessment

  • Formative assessment is typically contrasted with summative assessment.
  • Formative assessment is not distinguished by the format of assessment, but by how the information is used.
  • This assessment is also called as educative and classroom assessment.
  • This type of assessment is characterized as assessment of learning and is contrasted with formative assessment, which is assessment for learning.
  • Another form of assessment used in the education sector is the performance-based assessment, which is a derivative of the summative assessment, as it focuses on achievement.

• Assessment Items

  • Each Boundless concept has associated assessment items that test the concept's learning objective.
  • Boundless is in the process of building out comprehensive assessment banks for all our subjects.
  • A fully built-out assessment bank for a given Boundless subject will include assessment items for every learning objective in the subject.
  • Multiple formats of assessment items are available in Boundless content.
  • Explain the role of assessment items in testing a Boundless learning objective

• Components of Project-Based Learning

  • These features can be used in describing, assessing, and planning for projects.
  • Innovative assessment: Just as learning is an ongoing process, assessment can be an ongoing process of documenting that learning.
  • PBL requires varied and frequent assessment, including teacher assessment, peer assessment, self-assessment, and reflection.
  • The last component is innovative assessment.
  • PBL requires varied and frequent assessment, including teacher assessment, peer assessment, self-assessment, and reflection.

• Modular Content

  • Boundless courseware is comprised of individual modules, each with a three-part structure: a learning objective, supporting digital content, and a set of assessment items.
  • Each content module is organized in a three-part structure: the learning objective, the supporting text, media, and interactives, and the assessment items.
  • Each concept has assessment items associated with it that test its learning objective.
  • An assessment item on Boundless can be a multiple-choice question, a drag-and-drop interactive, an interactive image, or one of many other options.

• Changes in Emphasis

  • Emphasis is placed upon its use as a "more authentic tool for curriculum planning, instructional delivery and assessment" (oz-TeacherNet, 2001).

• Using a Learning Management System

  • An LMS provides the infrastructure to deliver and manage instructional content, identify and assess individual and organizational learning or training goals, track the progress towards meeting those goals, and collect and present data for supervising the learning process of organization as a whole.
  • Learning Management System allows instructors to create, administer and deliver online courses and assessments to learners.
  • Using a LMS Software learners can self-register and log in to take courses and assessments, at anytime and from any device via the web.

• Blackboard

  • Custom Boundless courseware, content, assessments, and grading can be ported seamlessly into any Blackboard course.
  • Students can access their Boundless materials and assessments without ever leaving their native LMS environment.

• Challenges of Cognitive Tools

  • Currently many educational settings are focused upon the traditional instructional and assessment methods of teacher directed lessons.
  • The challenges included: teacher training, technology integrated curriculum, assessment, school culture, district policy and management, district capability, changing pedagogical approaches, and cost.
  • Providing teachers with appropriate training to administer as well as design suitable assessment tools which can be applied to similar constructivist scaffolding is also a challenge when considering the use of cognitive tools.
  • Design based assessments will require parents, counselors, administrators, and other stockholders "to learn to read a different type of assessment report and to expect different measures of progress" (Carver, Lehrer, Connell, and Erickson, 1992, p. 402).

• Learning Outcomes

  • The use of objective as a noun and as an adjective is a source of potential confusion especially when the adjective objective is applied to assessment.
  • Thus objective assessment and assessment of objectives have entirely different meanings.
  • Although the achievement of objectives is usually assessed this need not necessarily rely on objective assessment.
  • Objectives can also be assessed via subjective assessment.