This document discusses assessment for distance education. It provides tips for formative assessment, including requiring evidence of learning, providing feedback, and connecting personally. It also outlines the REAL framework for assessment, covering readiness, endurance, being assessed on exams, and leveraging skills. Finally, it defines assessment and lists different types of assessment, tests, and how teachers should approach comments.

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