Abstract

Assessment is a time consuming activity and many computer systems have been developed to assist lecturers with assessment. Recent advances indicate that it is potentially possible to automatically grade free short text answers. However, these systems deal with technical not Human issues. Twelve interviews and sixteen teaching observations were carried out to find out about lecturers’ perceptions about assessment and assessment patterns used. Results show that lecturers find formative assessment a necessary yet time-consuming process, and usually resembles a continuous dialogue between lecturer and student. However, it also became apparent that current on-line tools for self-assessment do not enforce dialogue as such their main focus is to be used to test knowledge rather than deepening it. Based upon the findings, a system is introduced encouraging dialogue to support student learning and to ease lecturer workloads.

Citation

Spellmann, C., Dixon, M., Bleimann, U. & Jones, R. (2012). Collaborative Formative Assessment Using Web 2.0 Technologies. In T. Bastiaens & G. Marks (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2012--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 1 (pp. 1680-1685). Montréal, Quebec, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 13, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/41848/.

© 2012 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Keywords

• web 2.0