What is online assessment

1. By
Dr. QaisarAbbas
Assistant Professor
Riphah International University
Faisalabad Campus
drqaj@yahoo.com

2.  There are different types of online assessment.
Online assessment is used in different working
areas and all of them have their own goal to
achieve.The working area that I will highlight is
the educational working area. Educational
assessment is the systematic process of
documenting and using empirical data on the
knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs. By
taking the assessment, teachers try to improve
student learning.

3.  Assessment can be focused on the individual
learner or all individuals together, like the
whole class, an institution or specific
program. Formative assessment will give you
an overview of your students in the beginning
of your instruction. It gives you the
opportunity to still have the chance to
improve your instruction. Summative will
give you the outcome of the whole
instruction.

4.  When you start creating instruction (lesson material) for your
students, you will have to evaluate your instruction.The teacher
set goals to achieve at the end of each chapter or/and at the end of
instruction. Assessment determines whether or not the goals of
education are being met. Continuous questions that come to your
mind when taking assessment are: “Are we teaching what we are
supposed to be teaching?” “Are we reaching the goals we set for
the instruction?” “Is there a way to improve your instruction, and
promote better learning?”These questions don’t have to be asked
at a certain stage of developing your instruction.You have to ask
these questions throughout the whole instruction and even after
you have implemented it. Assessment affects decisions on
different domains: grades, advancement, instructional needs,
placement and curriculum.
 First, you need to identify which assessment type you need.There
are three types: needs driven assessment, goal oriented
assessment and performance assessment.

5.  Pre-assessment or diagnostic assessment. ...
 Formative assessment. ...
 Summative assessment. ...
 Confirmative assessment. ...
 Norm-referenced assessment. ...
 Criterion-referenced assessment. ...
 Ipsative assessment.

6.  Pre-assessment or diagnostic assessment
 Before creating the instruction, it’s necessary
to know for what kind of students you’re
creating the instruction.Your goal is to get to
know your student’s strengths, weaknesses
and the skills and knowledge the posses
before taking the instruction. Based on the
data you’ve collected, you can create your
instruction.

7.  Formative assessment
 Formative assessment is used in the first
attempt of developing instruction.The goal is
to monitor student learning to provide
feedback. It helps identifying the first gaps in
your instruction. Based on this feedback
you’ll know what to focus on for further
expansion for your instruction.

8.  Summative assessment
 Summative assessment is aimed at assessing
the extent to which the most important
outcomes at the end of the instruction have
been reached. But it measures more: the
effectiveness of learning, reactions on the
instruction and the benefits on a long-term base.
The long-term benefits can be determined by
following students who attend your course, or
test.You are able to see whether and how they
use the learned knowledge, skills and attitudes.

9.  Confirmative assessment
 When your instruction has been implemented
in your classroom, it’s still necessary to take
assessment.Your goal with confirmative
assessments is to find out if the instruction is
still a success after a year, for example, and if
the way you're teaching is still on point.You
could say that a confirmative assessment is
an extensive form of a summative
assessment.

10.  Norm-referenced assessment
 This compares a student’s performance
against an average norm.This could be the
average national norm for the subject
History, for example. Other example is when
the teacher compares the average grade of
his or her students against the average grade
of the entire school.

11.  Criterion-referenced assessment
 It measures student’s performances against a
fixed set of predetermined criteria or learning
standards. It checks what students are
expected to know and be able to do at a
specific stage of their education. Criterion-
referenced tests are used to evaluate a
specific body of knowledge or skill set, it’s a
test to evaluate the curriculum taught in a
course.

12.  Ipsative assessment
 It measures the performance of a student
against previous performances from that
student.With this method you’re trying to
improve yourself by comparing previous
results.You’re not comparing yourself against
other students, which may be not so good for
your self-confidence.

13. 5 Best Online AssessmentTools forTeachers
 Socrative - quizzes and questions with real-time
grading. ...
 Google Forms - easy to use and COPPA/FERPA
compliant. ...
 Mentimeter - pre-built education templates.
 Poll Everywhere - used by 300,000 teachers.
 Kahoot - game-based assessment tool.
(www.thinkexam.com),
(https://www.talview.com/online-assessment-tool)

14. 1. (www.thinkexam.com)
2. (https://www.talview.com/online-
assessment-tool)
3. https://www.edcite.com/
4. https://www.teachthought.com/technology/
26-teacher-tools-to-create-online-
assessments/

15. Thanks you
Any Question now or later please
Dr. QaisarAbbas