Student Assessment

Blog Post:  Student Assessment - Online learning lends itself to different forms of assessment than face-to-face learning. Learning management systems lend themselves to project-based learning. This article, although written for higher-education, outlines some of the challenges and advantages of various online forms of assessment.

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Identify 3-4 challenges you think you will face with assessing students online and describe how you might overcome them.

      1.     The challenge of providing a test that requires a greater comprehension of the material, versus a simple multiple choice/true-false test.

Provide essay questions on the assessments.  I have taken online courses, which would require essay questions.  The essay questions had to be graded by the professor and the student didn’t get the instantaneous results.

      2.     The challenge of cheating.

Provide tests, which are directly related to information in which the students had to do research.  Provide project-based tests.  Provide tests in which the student does reflections on the material.

      3.     The challenge of testing the problem solving skills.

Provide problem-based assessments.  Provide assessments in which there are a small amount of questions but requires to the students to solve problems related to the material.