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Assessing Student Performance in Online Classrooms

Assessment in on-line classes presents significant challenges for both students and teachers, especially for teachers like me who give a lot of importance to evidence gathered throughout the course by performance tasks.

The purpose of framing assessment around performance tasks is to clearly distinguish between those who really understand from those who only seem to because through performance understanding becomes "visible". This is the reason that assessments are frequently…

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Added by Justin Scoggin on May 15, 2012 at 10:25am — No Comments

A Sports Analogy for Assessment

On page 96 of the book "A Repair Kit for Grading", the author (Ken O'Connor) draws a useful

analogy between performance-based assessment and a band or a sports team:



"It is critical that both teachers and students recognize when assessment is primarily for learning (formative) and when it is primarily of learning…

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Added by Justin Scoggin on March 25, 2010 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

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