Design
C1 Select the assessment approach
The decisions you make here are really critical to the final shape of your assessment tasks. Your pedagogical approach will determine the type and scope of online assessment strategies that you are likely to select in the next section. Big picture decisions are taken here. Considerations at this stage may include:
- the overarching teaching approach or pedagogy (constructivism, Criterion Referenced Instruction, instructivist, behaviorist)
- whether the learning and assessment context covers closed/convergent knowledge or open/divergent
- whether the learning and assessment situation is collaborative as opposed to individual
- whether the assessment is deeply embedded in the learning or available at discrete times
- whether you are assessing knowledge or performance
- the degree of authenticity of the potential assessment tasks
- the appropriateness of problem-based learning approaches
As an online learning designer, it is possible that you will choose to use a hybrid approach to suit your own context.
Toolkit
Doing Assessment Online
Doing assessment online is a web site developed by Swinburne University and TAFE frontiers.
The section on Selecting an Approach allows you to reflect on and print out a description of your teaching and assessment model.
Doing assessment online
http://project.vetonline.vic.edu.au/letsdoit/2002/index.html
Selecting assessment approach
Download the attached template to assist you to select and document the assessment approach for your program.
C1 Selecting assessment approach - Word
version
(Right click on the link to save the document to your own computer)
ID Online
Developed for TAFE frontiers by Holmesglen TAFE, this site provides some useful guides to selecting an assessment approach.
