1 / 8

Enhancing Assessment through Computer-Based Innovations

Explore the impact of computer-based assessments on productivity, performance evaluation, and student feedback. Learn about examples like SPARKS Project and Evolution Readiness in revolutionizing assessment techniques. Uncover challenges and the importance of innovation in assessment.

luj
Download Presentation

Enhancing Assessment through Computer-Based Innovations

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Computer-based Assessment Paul Horwitz The Concord Consortium Presentation to DR-K12 PI Meeting, November 10, 2009

  2. For assessment purposes, is the computer a process innovation or a product innovation? • Inventions that started as process innovations and became new products • The telephone • The refrigerator

  3. Computer-assisted assessment as a way to increase productivity • Deliver the identical test online • Embed questions within visualizations • Random assignment of items • Adaptive testing

  4. Assessment techniques that depend on the computer • Performance assessment based on simulations of real systems and processes • Assessment based on students’ manipulations of causal models • Inferences based on tracking of problem-solving activities

  5. Examples of performance assessment:1. The SPARKS Project • Current ATE Project • College level: introductory electronics • Building self-paced assessments that give students useful feedback and offer an opportunity to practice skills • Optionally, assessments generate reports for instructors as well.

  6. Examples of performance assessment:2. “Evolution Readiness” • Current DR-K12 project • Fourth grade science dealing with evolution as emerging from natural selection • Students perform experiments with virtual plant and (soon) animal communities • Actions are logged, analyzed, and used to report on students’ inquiry skills and content knowledge

  7. Challenges to innovation in assessment • Technological barriers • Models and simulations take time to build • Required infrastructure complex and hard to maintain • Psychometric barriers • How do you score these things? • e.g., what constitutes an “item”? • How do you determine validity and reliability?

  8. Importance of innovation in assessment • Our understanding of learning has advanced faster than our ability to assess learning • Schools live or die by the results of assessments that don’t reflect current learning sciences research • We “teach to the test” so we don’t teach what we ought to teach

More Related