Welcome to Assessing Online

This site is to help VET professionals plan, design and deliver assessment using the web. There are three parts:

The Guide

The Resources

Case studies

Our Research

NEW! Assessing Online: the manual

Designed to help VET professionals plan, design and deliver assessment using the web, the manual (Word 1.18MB) presents the key content of this website in a convenient format for printing. As well as the manual, you will need the DocPack of checklists, templates and tools (ZIP 4.3MB) featured on this site.

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Why use the web to assess?
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The Guide

A guided tour through the stages and tasks of doing assessment online:

  • find out what each task involves

  • get tips from research and best practice

  • see how others have done it

  • get handy tools to help

  • document your process for each stage.

Select any stage from the navigation bar on the left.

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view map of stages & tasks (Word Document)

The Resources

Case studies

How teachers and teams have designed online assessment solutions:

  • see how others went about it
  • find out what lessons they learned
  • see samples of what they used along the way.

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Our Research

Read all the research behind the site. Find out:

  • the main types of online learning in VET
  • the benefits of using the web for assessment
  • some difficulties with online assessment
  • different purposes for online assessment
  • assessment strategies you can use.

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Last modified: 15/9/08