"Electronic assessment, also known as digital assessment, e-assessment, online assessment or computer-based assessment, is the use of information technology in assessment such as educational assessment, health assessment, psychiatric assessment, and psychological assessment."
Using online tools to assess, evaluate, and grade students.
Online testing platforms: These are platforms that allow educators to administer tests and quizzes online, and can also provide automated grading and feedback.
Test design and item writing: In order to create an effective and valid assessment, test designers need to have a solid understanding of how to create good test questions, balance test difficulty, and more.
Computer-adaptive testing: This type of testing system adjusts the difficulty of questions to match the skill level of the test-taker, allowing for a more personalized and precise assessment.
Online rubrics: Rubrics are tools used to assess and evaluate student work, and online rubrics can streamline the process and help educators provide more detailed feedback to students.
Data analysis and interpretation: Once assessments have been completed, it's important to know how to analyze the data and use it to make informed decisions about student learning and assessment practices.
Online portfolios: Digital portfolios are a way for students to showcase their work over time, and can be used to evaluate progress and growth.
Performance assessments: These assessments focus on real-world tasks or scenarios, and use rubrics or other evaluation tools to assess student performance.
Learning analytics: This involves the use of data to study how students learn and how education technology can support that learning.
Online program evaluation: Evaluation of educational programs can be done online, using surveys or other tools to gather feedback from stakeholders.
Accessibility and equity in online assessment: It's important to consider how online assessments may impact different groups of students, particularly those with disabilities or who are from underrepresented backgrounds.
Multiple Choice: A question with a list of possible answers, and students select the correct option.
True/False: Students have to decide whether the statement is true or false.
Matching: Students have to match a set of items in one column with another.
Short answer: Students have to provide a short response to the question.
Essay: Students have to write a longer response to the question or prompt.
Multiple Response: Questions with multiple correct answers, make this harder to obtain full marks.
Peer assessment: Students assess each other's work while giving feedback.
Self-assessment: Students reflect on their own work and reflect on potential areas of improvement.
Diagnostic: To check student understanding & inform teaching strategies.
Formative: Similar to diagnostic, but used several times which inform the measurement of growth over time.
Summative: This is used to evaluate student's learning outcomes and academic achievement.
Benchmark: This assessment is used to benchmark the student's performance with a particular standard.
Performance: These tasks allow students to demonstrate their practical skills.
Portfolio: An accumulation of photos, videos or documents to show off a student's achievements.
Attitudinal: Used to evaluate and measure student attitudes towards learning.
Predictive: This type of assessment predicts student's future performance, usually used for entrance into a particular course or program.
Standardized: Pre-determined questions identical for all students, as a form of comparison.
Adaptive: These assessments adjust to student responses to format questions based on their aptitude.
Crowd-Sourced assessment: A group of experts assess student work, allowing for a more holistic approach.
Gamified: Assessment is delivered through game-like aspects, making testing more interactive and fun for students.
"Specific types of e-assessment include multiple choice, online/electronic submission, computerized adaptive testing such as the Frankfurt Adaptive Concentration Test, and computerized classification testing."
"Different types of online assessments contain elements of one or more of the following components, depending on the assessment's purpose: formative, summative and diagnostic."
"In formative assessment, often defined as 'assessment for learning', digital tools are increasingly being adopted by schools, higher education institutions and professional associations to measure where students are in their skills or knowledge."
"This can make it easier to provide tailored feedback, interventions or action plans to improve learning and attainment."
"Gamification is one type of digital assessment tool that can engage students in a different way whilst gathering data that teachers can use to gain insight."
"In summative assessment, which could be described as 'assessment of learning', exam boards and awarding organisations delivering high-stakes exams often find the journey from paper-based exam assessment to fully digital assessment a long one."
"Practical considerations such as having the necessary IT hardware to enable large numbers of students to sit an electronic examination at the same time, as well as the need to ensure a stringent level of security are among the concerns that need to be resolved to accomplish this transition."
"E-marking is one way that many exam assessment and awarding bodies, such as Cambridge International Examinations, are utilizing innovations in technology to expedite the marking of examinations."
"In some cases, e-marking can be combined with electronic examinations."
"In other cases, students will still hand-write their exam responses on paper scripts which are then scanned and uploaded to an e-marking system for examiners to mark on-screen."
"This covers a wide range of activities ranging from the use of a word processor for assignments to on-screen testing."
"Instant and detailed feedback may (or may not) be enabled."
"Digital tools are increasingly being adopted by schools, higher education institutions and professional associations to measure where students are in their skills or knowledge."
"This can make it easier to provide tailored feedback, interventions or action plans to improve learning and attainment."
"Computerized adaptive testing such as the Frankfurt Adaptive Concentration Test."
"The need to ensure a stringent level of security (for example, see: Academic dishonesty) are among the concerns that need to be resolved to accomplish this transition."
"Many exam assessment and awarding bodies, such as Cambridge International Examinations, are utilizing innovations in technology to expedite the marking of examinations."
"Digital tools are increasingly being adopted by schools, higher education institutions, and professional associations to measure where students are in their skills or knowledge."
"Gamification is one type of digital assessment tool that can engage students in a different way whilst gathering data that teachers can use to gain insight."