The evaluation stage
Validate assessment tasks and processes
- I moderate my assessment tasks with another teacher who has taught
the Graduate Certificate before. She provides invaluable support and ideas
for my evaluation.
- I carefully check the tasks against a matrix of learning outcomes,
and against different learning styles.
- I have used the WebCT survey tool to evaluate the course. This is easy
to develop if you use a third party tool called Respondus. I get good
feedback and data analysis from this tool and the learners can comment
anonymously.
- The discussion board has been an invaluable tool for getting informal
feedback on the assessment tasks.
Evaluate & modify assessment tools
- As some of the learner group were not used to online discussion tasks,
I really have to provide a lot of encouragement and scaffolding in how
to use the medium. I try to model appropriate responses in an attempt
to break down the barriers. Feedback has been that this task is the most
daunting and challenging for many learning styles. Then again others love
the opportunity to discuss, reflect and problem solve.
- The assessment dropbox function in WebCT has not been as easy to use
as I might have hoped. However the latest version is a bit clearer.
Last modified: 15/9/08
