Session 5 Blog: E- Facilitation

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E- Facilitation is one of the common baselines of higher education that enables a lecturer to explore its potentials on how to facilitate courses. Assessment as being major part of efacilitation is required by every one of us because it becomes a significant determinant of what, when and how we learn things. Hence getting the right assessment is required by both the students as well as the teachers. As part of efacilitation team ILLICH chose the topic: Elements of successful online learning with a Focus on PICs. Sub- topic with major focus in session 4 was Continuous Assessment and Feedback.

Assessment and Feedback

The importance and benefits of student assessment for learning have been established in the previous sections. You are undoubtedly aware of its significance in our academic lives now. However, in order to achieve the required goal of classroom assessment, it should be ascertained that assessment is being done at frequent intervals on a regular basis. In other words, it should be an ongoing process. Classes or courses which hold one or two exams per year are not exploiting the potential of school assessment to the extreme. For students to have a more precise perspective and understanding of their flaws and strengths and take steps to improve it, frequent assessment is exceptionally crucial.

IMPORTANCE OF THE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY

Conceptualizing the learning process to its basic elements, we can identify at last the following elements:

1. The educational material to be taught by the teacher in a classroom.

2. The teaching and learning activities that take place in a classroom.

3. The assessment activity to measure the student learning and,

4. The report of the score results given by the teachers to the students. This conception is well suitable for the traditional educative process.

Figure 1: ASSESSMENT IN THE E-LEARNING PROCESS

Types of Assessment

1.      Formative assessment: this is an assessment that helps to give a convenient feedback and motivation to the student and do not have scores. Also brings convenient feedback to designers of materials.
2.         Summative assessment: this is a scored assessment and gives a result to measure outcomes and success of the learner.
3.          Norm assessment: use the achievements of a group to set the standards for specific grades and is used in most universities. Criterion assessment: establish the standard (criterion) and mark students against it.
4.          There is another kind of assessment called alternative assessment. Here, the integration of the assessment activity with learning processes and real-life performance as opposed to display of “inert knowledge”. Know as authentic assessment it is very much based on the constructivist approach that enables students to demonstrate knowledge by working on authentic task, putting students under control of their own learning [1] and helping the students to develop the necessary skill for autonomous (and lifelong) learning.

Indeed, assessment is similar to a learning objective, and students should be aware of conducting it after completion of every lesson. It affects education in many spheres like grades, placements, curriculum, and school funding and instructional requirements as well.

Thank you.

Reference

1. Barbosa. H and Garcia. F (2014). Importance of Online Assessment in the E-learning Process. Department of Computer Science, University of Salamanca Plaza de la Merced, s/n 37008, Salamanca, SPAIN.
2. What Is The Importance Of Assessment In Teaching Learning Process? https://www.buyonlineclass.com/importance-of-assessment-in-teaching-learning-process/