Assessment (Practice)

I spent 3 days in Lyon this week, in meetings with European project colleagues and learning technology standardization people. This model had a good airing, and there was lots of discussion and feedback. So it has developed quite a lot over the three days from the previous version. So, let’s start at the top left. The [...]

As promised, the model is gently evolving from the initial one posted. Starting from the left, I’ve added a “creates” relationship between the assessing body and the assessment specification, to mirror the one for learning. Then, I’ve reversed the arrows and amended the relationship captions accordingly, for some of the middle part of the diagram. This [...]

First of an projected series setting out a conceptual model including learning, evaluation and awarding, in time showing the evolution of a conceptual model and the reasons and motives behind that.

There’s a lively discussion (beginning here) going on on the VLEs JISCMail discussion list around ‘innovative ways of online assessing’.  Although in some cases ‘innovative’ seems to be equated with ‘electronic’, there are some interesting activities and comments emerging: MS Word documents uploaded and marked by comments; Google Docs may provide greater preservation of comments.