Online Assessment Tips and

Reminders
By the end of this presentation you
should be able to:
➢ Define online assessment
➢ Differentiate Objective from Subjective Assessment
➢ Enumerate guidelines for developing good online assessment
➢ Explain the advantages and disadvantages of online assessment
What is an online assessment?
- it is the way to measure student growth, understanding and
performance in a course and conducted over the internet by using
available web technologies.
Assessment Categories
Objective Assessment
-is one that needs no professional judgment to score correctly .

Subjective Assessment
- yield many possible answers of varying quality and require
professional judgment to score
5 Guidelines For Developing Good Online Assessments

1. Remember the Before, During and After of Assessment

 TYPES OF ASSESSMENT
Diagnostic Formative Summative
When Before During; Ongoing, End of Course/module,
Assessment for Learning Final Assessment of
Learning
What it measures Initial Ability Progress Evaluation of Achievement

Purpose Setting benchmarks and Monitoring progress; Assessment of acquired

expectations; helping students; provide knowledge and skills;
remediation feedback; remediation measure student
competencies; Grades

Example Pretest Quizzes, Self/Peer Unit Test, Summative Test,

Evaluation, Group Quarterly Exams,
Activities, Questioning, Midterms/Finals, Portfolio,
Journals Standardized Test
 2. Know Why We Want To Assess

Explain the
Define advantages/dis
assessment advantages of
online
assessment

Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Domains of Learning

Remember, It’s Either “Select" Or "Construct"

Types of Assessment Methods

 4. Guidelines for Creating Multiple-Choice Tests
➢ 1. Make the stem clear, make it a question, and make it brief.
➢ 2. Make responses direct, with no extra, meaningless information.
➢ 3. Don’t use "All of the above" or "None of the above".
➢ 4. Make sure all of your answers—the correct answer and the distractors (the
incorrect answers)—are consistent in length, style, etc.
➢ 5. Increase the plausibility of distractors by including extraneous information
and choosing distractors based on common student errors
➢ 6. Pay attention to language.
➢ 7. Avoid categorical terms—always, never.
➢ 8. Avoid double negatives
➢ 9. Distractors should illuminate common student misperceptions.
➢ 10. Use 4 possible responses, not 3.
➢ Each question should stand alone.
5. Benjamin Bloom Is Your Friend. Really.
Advantages of online assessments
1. Environmentally Friendly
2. Technology Forward
3. Labor Cost Reduction
4. Time saving
Disadvantages of online assessments

1.Open Books Exams

2.Onboarding onto New Technology
3.Infrastructural Barriers
Thank you for Listening