E-Assessment

Commentaries to the SIGs aims

In the recent years the number of exams delivered has sharply increased due to the Bologna reform. To tackle the increased workload many universities are considering the use of electronic devices in the assessment process. Therefore e-Assessment can be described as an end-to-end electronic assessment processes where the computer is used for the creation, delivery and marking of assessments. Although e-Assessment can offer a wide range of opportunities (time and cost savings, validity, reliability, fairness), one holdback are the high investments (hardware, software, buildings) necessary to run the exams (security, legal issues, etc). Since all universities are facing similar problems, we would like to bring them together to exchanges their individual experiences in a Special Interest Group.

• Cornelia Ruedel (University of Zurich)
• Brigitte Schmucki (ETH Zurich)

• Use of the computer in the assessment process (planning, creation, delivery, marking, feedback)
• Definition includes all alternative assessment forms like (blogs, wikis, discussion forum, digital storytelling, electronic submission, E-portfolios)
• all different pedagogical (formative, summative, diagnostic; self and teacher assessed)=====Topics of the SIG=====

(Mindmap)

• E-Assessment as a new assessment method
• Different pedagogical forms of E-Assessment (formative, summative, diagnostic)
• Pedagogical Issues
• Technical Issues (Hardware, Software, Rooms/Buildings, Data Interchange)
• Legal Issues
• Administration & Organisational Issues
• Staff Development
• Change Management
• Barriers & Enablers
• ….

• Information exchange
• Communication
• Networking
• Participation in Projects
• Events / Meeting
• ….

• Meetings
• Website
• Newsletter
• Blog
• Wiki
• ….

Topics collected at Eduhub Days 2010:

• exchange of ideas
• security issues
• creation of MCQs
• forms of e-assessment
• organisation and sharing of a question pool

Please free feel to change/add more to the definition, possible topics or/and activities. I see the above list just as a starting point and look forward to the changes

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