Assessment for Distance Education

1. ASSESSMENT FOR
DISTANCE EDUCATION

2. ASSESSMENT
• Provides valuable information about a learner and the instruction

3. WHY ASSESS?
• Provides diagnostic feedback
• Helps educators set standards
• Evaluates progress
• Relates to a student’s progress
• Supports student self-evaluation
• Supports teacher self-evaluation

4. TIPS FOR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
• Require students to submit evidence of learning
• Provide feedback
• Include comprehension checks in remote face-to-face class meetings
• Connect personally
• Use what you learn

5. R.E.A.L.
• Readiness
• Endurance
• Assessed
• Leverage

6. • Readiness- provides students with essential knowledge and skills necessary for
success
• Endurance- provides students with knowledge and skills that are useful beyond a
single test
• Assessed- will be assessed on upcoming state and national exams
• Leverage- provide students with knowledge and skills that will be of value in
multiple disciplines

7. TYPES OF ASSESSMENT
• Formative- continuous, designed to motivate learners, help them to understand
how they are progressing
• Summative-used as end of course test and give a total report on learners
achievement of objectives

8. TYPES OF TESTS
• Objective
• Matching
• Multiple choice
• True-false
• Fill in the blanks
• Long answer

9. DEFINITION
• Process of obtaining information about learners’ progress and achievement in
learning

10. TEACHER COMMENTS
• Always be positive
• Always be constructive
• Rarely be negative
• Sometimes be null
• Never be misleading
• Never be harmful