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Matching Assessments to Open Educational Resources

Matching Assessments to Open Educational Resources. Lisa LaVigna, Executive Director of Outreach. Open “Free” Educational Resources. Types of OER . Lecture notes Videos of classroom lectures Lessons designed for OER Courses Discussion groups . Physics lecture. OpenStudy. Khan Academy.

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Matching Assessments to Open Educational Resources

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  1. Matching Assessments to Open Educational Resources Lisa LaVigna, Executive Director of Outreach

  2. Open “Free” Educational Resources

  3. Types of OER • Lecture notes • Videos of classroom lectures • Lessons designed for OER • Courses • Discussion groups Physics lecture OpenStudy Khan Academy Open University

  4. OER = Free education? • Funding pays for • Compensation for professors/course designers • Costs of producing materials • Software design and maintenance • Monitoring of student communications Funding efficiency OER can reach large numbers of people worldwide

  5. What is OER’s value? • Learning • Certificates But… OER by itself does not typically award formal educational credit Why not?

  6. Academic credit • What is credit? A course credit (credit hour) is a unit that gives weighting to the value, level or time requirements of an academic course taken at an educational institution. • To provide that assurance, both the someone and the something must be verified

  7. OER and assessment “What you know is more important than how or where you learned it.” Credit should be based on knowledge, not attendance

  8. Validity • Interpretation and use of results/credit is supported by (good) arguments • Part of making the argument is identifying threats to validity and countering the threats

  9. Aspects of validity for OER assessments • Identity verification • Assessment quality • Appropriateness of knowledge tested for a particular degree program • Scalability

  10. Identity Verification Make sure the people claiming the knowledge are: • WHO they say they are • DOING their own work

  11. Assessment quality A good assessment… • Measures knowledge of the subject • Does not measure irrelevant characteristics • Gives a person the same score regardless of which form is taken • Gives people of the same ability the same score

  12. Appropriateness of content • Match of assessment to OER How close are the assessment specifications to the learning objectives of the OER material? • Match of assessment to credit-granting body How close are the assessment specifications/ learning objectives to what is taught at the institution where credit is sought?

  13. Scalability - Generalizability • Course final exams and homework • Third-party assessments designed for a specific course • Competency assessments Less generalizable More generalizable

  14. Scalability – Large groups • Individual assessments • Portfolios • Research papers • Oral examinations • Human-scored group assessments • Short answer questions • Essay questions • Machine-scored assessments • Multiple-choice exams • Machine-scored constructed response exams Less scalable More scalable

  15. Efficient assessment • Machine-scored competency exams can handle large numbers of examinees and be used for multiple OER sources

  16. A model for low-cost education OER University

  17. Sample ASB Degree Template • (ETC ASB example)

  18. Questions

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