Formative and summative assessments available online can be
quick to take and fun for students, they offer immediate feedback to students
progress direct to student and teacher. Formative
level assessments allow the teacher to determine if more direction is needed
for progress of entire class or individuals while summative assessments allow students
to work together confirming and building understanding and use of the knowledge
they have just acquired. This
environment can be accomplished in online and blended learning as opposed to
face-to-face where assessments take time to process grades and give feedback to
students. Often the time delay puts such a distance between content learned and
assessment feedback that students do not question or engage material that was
not comprehended well.
The time involved in building online assessments can be cumbersome
but is well worth the outcome of immediate feedback to students and ease of
collecting grades. Students, parents and teachers reap the benefit of these
online assessments. Some curriculum sources are now including online formative assessments
that I would strongly suggest taking the time to learn how to implement in your
courses.
A challenge addressed in this module was when and where to
take an assessment. The biggest questions is the summative assessment that
determines a student’s overall understanding and if it is an online test how do
we monitor that student for a cheat free environment. I prefer the student
being monitored by an unbiased adult for their final exam if it is an
individual test. However, I have determined that if a time limit is enforced on
an online test that it eliminates the student away from school to use materials
to cheat/assist with answers as they will score low because of their lack of
understanding. Ifthe final exam is a project evaluation then I am happy to
apply rubric to student understanding and effort.
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