Tour D: Assessment - Large and Small
Launch Pad: Any Internet computer Liftoff Date: 8/25/99
Same Slightly Confused Navigator: Bruce Bird
CALT Home Page ( http://www.aacc.cc.md.us/calt )
For those who are reading the printed text for this tour
it can be found on the Web at the CALT News page or
http://www.aacc.cc.md.us/calt/tour_d_assessment.htm
(A sampling of assessment related links from CALT)
Institutional
Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment " Many of the pages on this list have links to other resources and to each other. We like to use other people's lists of links instead of connecting to all the resources directly from here." This site contains links to sites covering assessment and evaluation, specific skills or content, individual institutions' assessment-related pages, and accrediting organizations.
- Individual Institutions' Assessment-Related Pages
- Learning Outcomes Assessment at Howard Community College
- Kirtland Assessment
- Academic Assessment Northern Virginia Community College
- OIR: Student Outcomes Assessment University of Illinois
Assessment in Higher Education This page contains links to assessment resources and assessment sites at colleges and universities.
Alverno College: A Four-Year Liberal Arts College for Women "The fact that our system of ability-based education and performance assessment works so successfully with so diverse a student body has important national implications."
The Educational Testing Service Network
Courses
Web Based
A Comparative Analysis of Web-Based Testing and Evaluation Systems by Elizabeth J. Gibson and others, "in this paper, we discuss some basic features that such a system (student knowledge testing and evaluation system) needs to have, and in that light evaluate a selection of the Web-based testing and evaluation systems."
Project ADEPT (Assessment of Distance Education Pedagogy and Technology)
is "a project to assess what combination of technology/pedagogy/learner characteristics best enhances student satisfaction with distance education courses. In looking at students' level of satisfaction with distance education, we want to assess what factors contribute to that satisfaction; the extent to which delivery format affects whether they will be more or less likely continue to pursue higher education and be life-long learners; and how they will likely go about learning in the future".Classroom
Assessment and Evaluation on the Internet developed by Liselle Drake & Larry Rudner contains an annotated list of links to Internet resources for assessment and evaluation.
Students
The Flashlight Program The Flashlight Program helps institutions study the ways that technology can be used to improve education. These findings can be used to validate good practice, spot problems, and improve teaching and learning with technology.
Evaluation Tools "...included here supports the task of generating evaluations by various different means." This is part of Multimedia Development Tools developed as part of the Multimedia in Manufacturing Education program at Georgia Tech.
Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project at The California State University
University of California.Knowledge Analysis Technologies, LLC
"Based on ten years of well-funded basic and applied research, we have developed an essay analysis system that can provide important educational benefits. The web-based Intelligent Essay Assessor, IEA, supplies instantaneous evaluations and tutorial adv ice on the semantic content and conceptual quality of expository writing. This is a qualitative leap beyond the spelling, grammar and style aids currently available. IEA's ratings of quality and quantity of knowledge are virtually as reliable and predictively-valid as a teacher's, more consistent, and instantaneous. The detail in its comments and suggestions is potentially unlimited. For example, it can tell students what important content is missing from their papers, and point them to relevant sources in their textbooks. It can also pinpoint irrelevant and redundant passages, and more. Unlike earlier approaches, IEA does not rely on word counts, punctuation, keyword matches or other superficial character istics. It actually measures knowledge."
"IEA is economically and logistically most effective in situations where a very large number of students write about the same topic and the costs of set-up and processing can be spread over many users."
Washingtonpost.com: News New Software Checks Essay Content, by Linda Perlstein, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, October 13, 1998; Page A01.
CALT/Examples Among the various examples of teaching materials on this CALT page you will find examples of interactive questions created using Microsoft FrontPage 98, Macromedia Flash, and Asymetrix Toolbook Assistant. Examples created with WebCT and Macromedia Director will be added soon.
Testing and Tracking Software
Test.com This site provides an example of a commercial testing company that gives tests over the Internet.
Quizzing and Testing on the Internet Provides tutorials for using testing software and some issues to consider.
Other quiz generation programs on the web This page provides URLs to a long "list of other free and for cost quiz generation programs and services that you might find of interest."
CALT - Teaching/Teaching with Technology/Software
WebCT - World Wide Web Course Tools "WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated World Wide Web-based educational environments by non-technical users. It can be used to create entire on-line courses, or to simply publish materials that supplement existing courses."
Asymetrix Learning Systems is " a leading provider of enterprise online learning solutions designed to enable organizations to more effectively capture and deploy knowledge as a competitive advantage."