E ASSESSMENT Why use it .. whatever it is

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E- ASSESSMENTWhy use it .. whatever it is?

• Phil Davies
• School of Computing
• University of Glamorgan

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DefinitionsE-Assessment

• E ?
• False assumption Electronic ---- EASY
• Assessment ?
• What do student know? Judging? Grading?
• Means of Learning
• FEEDBACK

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Types of Assessment

• Formative
• Ask a question
• Get an answer
• Are they right .. Tell them
• Explainative
• Summative
• whatever you answer will be judged / graded
• Can Formative / Summative Mix?

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Objective / Subjective Testing

• Objective
• Right or wrong True of False .. Multiple Choice
  Questions
• Subjective
• Opinion . Personalised Essays
• Can they be Mixed?

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On-Line Assessment Learning OLAL

• Level Two Degree .. Computer Communications
  Networks
• Failures High Programming to Demonstrate ..
  Technical Subject .. Essay-type answers in
  examinations
• Assess .. Knowledge Understanding Learning
  Outcomes . Directed

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The First Test

• 40 Questions / Formative
• Time Consuming / Difficult to create sensible
  distractors / Rocket Science
• I thought Average 1 minute per question
• Actual all finished in ten minutes apart from
  one who took 50 minutes
• Why? No reason to think

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On Line Assessment LEARNING

• Four Tests
• Weeks 3,6,9,12 5, 10, 15 20
• Cumulative
• Two Passes of SAME test
• Learning .. Short term?
• Slowed Down .. Thought about WHEN WRONG .

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But that is just lowering standards!!! Need Exams

• Week 13/14 of a 15 week module
• 20 Key Points per Module
• Five Examination Questions
• 25 of Module Assessed
• Answer 3 Out of 5 Questions
• 15 of Module Assessed
• 40 Pass Mark 60 WRONG
• Feedback . Learning !!!

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Proper Essays Needed !!!

• E.H.F.F
• Excessive Help From Friends
• Assess group of students not individual
• Photocopying of Assignments
• Anonymity Removes Grouping
• Formative FEEDBACK???

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What about Subjective?

• Essays
• Marking / Feedback ???
• Computerised Assessment by Peers
• Computerised Assessment with Plagiarism
• Use students to mark and give feedback

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C.A.P. results

• Students learn from marking peers 80
• Find good links to help them
• Copy good practice .. Future work
• Learn from explanations at their level
• Aim future work at marker .. Know what is needed
• Higher level skills .. Analysis / Evaluation

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Integration Objective Subjective

• Essay
• Multiple choice based on essay content
• Mark peer work
• Multiple choice based on essay content
• Reason for marking in a diligent manner
• Marks for Marking

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Problems

• Standards in comments (honest!!)
• Range of marks .. Expectations
• I had a low mark because my markers had higher
  expectations than I did
• Didnt know what to look for...
• Can C.A.P. system .. E get round these problems

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Standard of expectation

• Average over or under mark from median
  compensation factor
• Run application to modify marks
• Compensated mark becomes actual mark put forward
  for assessment
• Accepted
• Use as a statistical judge of marking process

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Use C.A.P. to encourage learning at level one, or
is it plagiarism?

• Essay one 5 essay 5 for marking
• Essay two 5 essay 5 for marking
• Essay three 5 essay 5 for marking
• ESSAY FOUR TUTOR MARKED .. 40 .. COMPOSITE OF
  ESSAYS 1,2 3
• Pass rate / learning outcomes / learn / content
  style
• 30 Objective MCQ

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Level Three .. Higher Order

• Self-Assessment
• Standard of Expectation
• Peer-Assessment
• Reflective Self-Assessment
• Marks for Marking using Standard of Expectation
  for statistical purposes
• 96 trusted or identified via reflective
  self-assessment within 10

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Problems

• Feedback varies
• Judgment both on comments and statistical
• Tim nice but dim
• why did you give me 3/10
• what do you mean by
• But I did include this, you missed it
• ANONYMOUS

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If subjective testing is sorted, what about
objective?

• In the recent World cup qualifier between England
  and Greece, who scored the all important
  equalizing goal?
• David Beckham
• Victoria Beckham
• Brooklyn Beckham

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Rewards?

• Know it
• On the tip of my tongue
• Deduce
• Guess
• Know it oh no Ive got it wrong

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E-Assessment

• Need tools fairly cheap . ME!!
• Could use MLEs MCQ environment
• Anonymous email
• MUST know why you are doing it
• What will YOU and the STUDENTS GAIN?
• E EASY Assessment LEARNING

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Quality of a multiple choice question?

• In the recent World cup qualifier between England
  and Greece, who scored the all important
  equalizing goal?
• Teddy Sheringham
• Michael Owen
• Robbie Fowler
• QUALITY OF QUESTION NOT DISTRACTORS

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C.P.A.S.S

• My exam results are useless because the students
  cant write essays
• Where are they taught how to write essays for
  technical answers?
• Expect them at level three to be able to write
  essays
• CPASS .. Practice answering exam type questions

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Modified Quotes

• the most important thing we do for our students
  is to provide an assessment environment, so that
  their work is assessed in a qualitative,
  formative and trusted manner, whilst facilitating
  student learning.
• .. good tutors are guides who help their
  students to dispense with their services both as
  teachers and assessors