Universidad del Valle Campus Sur

Facultad de Educación
Licda. Marina Vives
Yacira Reyes Galindo
Carné: 161419

Creative Methods of
Assessment in Online
Learning

In education, the term assessment refers to the wide variety of methods or tools

that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness,
learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.

However, an assessment can be any task or activity thatevaluates students’

progress toward your course’s learning outcomes.Traditional examples include
papers, projects, reflective journals, group work, quizzes, and much more.

Capitalize on digital resources.

Students in your online course will be sitting in front of one of the mostpowerful
tools for knowledge collection and creation: a computer.Think about how you can
design assessments that use the digitalenvironment while also meeting your
learning objectives.

For example:
In an exercise science course, the instructor asks students to critically evaluate
free online nutrition and fitness tools and explain which they’d recommend and why
based on what they’ve learned in class.

Aim for authenticity

Authentic assessments are a way for you to answer that question. To design
authentic assessments, think about whatprofessionals in your field do regularly and
then ask yourself howstudents can take the knowledge and skills from your course
and apply them to those tasks. Consider whether you could provide students with
authentic feedback from a nonacademic audience.

For example:

In an organizational behavior course, student groups work with local companies to

research organizational problems and make recommendations for solutions.
Universidad del Valle Campus Sur
Facultad de Educación
Licda. Marina Vives
Yacira Reyes Galindo
Carné: 161419

Use students’ environments and

Experiences.

Depending on your teaching situation, you may havestudents from very different
parts of your own country or from othercountries. Think about how you might
design assessments thatcapitalize on their diverse environments and experiences
to enrichtheir own and one another’s learning.

For example:

In an online anthropology course, the instructor asks students in a number of

remote locations to map their own neighborhoods, using audio, video, and images
to highlight and explain places of cultural significance.

Incorporate collaboration.

It’s especially important to build a sense ofcommunity and connection.Group

projects have their own complexity, however, so be sure tostructure them in
specific roles for group members or having studentsevaluate one another’s
performance can help ensure that everyonecontributes fairly.

For example:

In an online English course, students work collaboratively in drive to compose a

short story in English.
Universidad del Valle Campus Sur
Facultad de Educación
Licda. Marina Vives
Yacira Reyes Galindo
Carné: 161419

Personal opinion

Selecting assessment activities is a powerful way to achieve learning outcomes

and ensure completion of the course.

Assessment is a critical aspect of the teaching and learning process. Innovative

assessment can drive change toward modernizing our educational systems,
impacting the way teaching and learning is conducted in an increasingly digital
society and economy.

It highlights challenges and success factors for adopting innovative evaluation

practices and identifies a number of key recommendations for advancing
innovative evaluation.

The evaluation process is an imminent part of teaching practice. The idea of

innovative assessment is to teach at the same time so teachers can create
parameters to improve the education and learning techniques that each student
may need according to their reality.