How to Create and Conduct Online Learning Assessment
Tips for the Teachers to Cater the Learning Needs of 21st Century Learners
Let the Ice-Melts!
Be ready to learn, unlearn and relearn!
Be ready to write, read, add, delete and rewrite to cater the need of 21st century young generation!
Be open to care and share with students!
Why?
Assessment
Importance of Assessment
•To reflect upon the fulfillment of learning objective
•To reflect upon our preparation, planning, execution
•To find out other relative learning challenges and their solution
•To reflect upon the achievement of learning outcome
Online Learning Assessment
•Assessment can be any well planned tasks or an activity that evaluates students’ learning progress and designed learning outcomes
•Students’ performance can be assessed formal or informal, high- or low-stakes, individual or collective, online, offline (Conventional Way)
•Wise educator plan effective strategies to design assessments with the help of digital technology to meet the planned learning objectives
Online Learning Assessment
Benefits of Online Learning Assessment
Teacher as Learner and Learner as Teacher!
Ask questions to yourself!
What are the learning objectives of the unit/lesson/ course?
How do we want students to learn in the unit/lesson/ course?
How do we assess learning outcomes for effective teaching?
Think and Design
Think Innovative, Creative and Critical Before Design an Assessment Framework for the 21st Century Learners
Educator need to:-
Design assignments that are creative, challenging, and motivating
Combination of authentic project work,
Compelling content,
Peer engagement opportunities
Effective practices, methodologies,
Well developed rubrics,
Use of new and emerging technologies
Guidance and support from educator,
Educator need to:-
Promote self and peer assessments for improving student learning experiences and build community
Always looks for opportunities to provide feedback to the entire class
Provide precise guidelines, deadlines, and discussion forum space to facilitate
Design the assessment for evaluating student’s:-
Knowledge
Comprehension
Apllication
Analysis, synthesis, evaluation
How
Educator can use “Quiz” i.e. short answer, multiple choice etc. to track students’ learning progress. 10-15 Quiz questions can be sufficient for assessing learners’ learning outcome.
How
•Educator can use “Projects” for assessing individual or group of students’ learning outcome. Educator can promote simulations, role playing, case studies, problem solving exercises, brainstorming or debates on various topics. Teacher can develop evaluation forms for self-evaluation and peer assessment on final projects.
How
Educator can use “Portfolios” for assessing students’ creative and comprehensive knowledge. Portfolios can be combination of papers, audio/video, and/or presentations. Peer reviews can be an effective learning and assessment tool.
How
Educator can use “Presentations” in the form of informational web pages i.e. blogs, web-based student-generated quizzes, video/audio, or slide shows for effective assessment tool.
How
Educator can use “Case Study” for individual or group assessment. Teacher gives clear instructions for everyone. Students can use a variety of methods such as simulation/games, videos, slide shows, photos, staged dialogue, and narration over text and images. Peer reviews can be effective tool for quality assessment.
How
Educator can use “Paper” for assessing student’s learning outcome. Educator can ask for a short paragraph or a full research report according need and topic.
How
Educator can use “Self-assessment” for assessing student’s learning outcome. Students reflect on their own learning level and skills. Educator develops customized ‘questionnaire’ for learner’s self-assessment. Educator can develop multiple choice questions (self-tests) using automated scoring. It helps educator for providing quick feedback.
Tools ,Techniques and Resources for Online Assessment
Video,
Podcasts,
Digital storytelling,
Concept mapping tools
Web-based resources
Group work,
Brainstorming/Mind mapping
Open Learning Resources
Get acquainted with–
Copyrighted as well as Free and Open Source (FOSS) e-contents and tools for learning,
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DIKSHA- The nation’s digital infrastructure for states/UTs for providing QR coded Energized Textbooks for all grades, MOOCs courses, and quality e-content for school education for students, teachers (One Nation, One Digital Platform)
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SWAYAM- Online courses in MOOCS format for Open school or NIOS
Online Learning Resource
SWAYAM PRABHA- One earmarked TV channel per class from 1 to 12 (One Class, One Channel)
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Educational materials available from Primary to Postgraduate levels
Educational materials available for all subject areas like Technology, Social Science, Literature, Law, Medical, etc
All types of resources, such as Books, Audio Books/Lectures, Video lectures, Lecture Presentations/Notes, Simulations, Question Papers, Solutions, etc. available
Huge volume of Educational materials authored by large number of authors available
Content of all languages available. User interface available in widely used Indian languages Library integrates contents from Institutional Digital Repositories of large number of Indian Educational and Research institutions
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National Council of Educational Research and Training -NCERT
Points for Teacher to Recapitulate and Reflect Following Points Before Conducting Online Assessment
Precise rules/regulation/ instruction/guidelines
Why
What
How
When
Break the complex assignments into smaller component
Accurately communicate expectations from students
Design assignments that are interesting and challenging
Develop rubrics to assess students’ comprehensive, critical and analytical knowledge
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