Don't throw the student out with the bathwater: online assessment strategies your class won't hate

Education is a key to a successful life for all human beings. Having a good education certainly helps people to have a better life and improve their living standard. Therefore, education should be continually conducted meaningfully to enhance students’ competence. However, carrying out effective learning and appropriate classroom assessment during the coronavirus pandemic could be highly challenging for the teachers to do. Teachers need to utilize various technological devices to assess students' learning competence. This is due to online learning has become a priority in learning activities in the pandemic situation. Consequently, teachers must have broader horizons on how to conduct the learning processes and appropriate assessment strategies and operate various communication technologies. This study found that English teachers implemented three types of online assessment strategies to improve students' learning competence during the pandemic of Covid-19 in Indonesia. Those strategies are online test administration, portfolio, and self-assessment. Several challenges were accoutered by the teachers in carrying out the classroom assessment through online systems such as slow internet network, expensive internet quota prices, limited access to computer and smartphone devices, poor ability in using digital technology, difficulty in conducting effective interaction. Feedback was occasionally provided when the learning processes were conducted through zoom meeting or google meet. The study implies that teachers should improve their communication technology ability and fulfill online assessment strategies' administrative procedures.

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Challenges in the Deisgn, Development, and Delivery of Online Assessment and Evaluation

Online Assessment and Measurement ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-720-1.ch007 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 132-164

Author(s):

Clark J. Hickman ◽

Cheryl Bielema ◽

Margaret Gunderson

Keyword(s):

Needs Assessment ◽

Educational Programs ◽

Comprehensive System ◽

Online Assessment ◽

Design Development ◽

Assessment And Evaluation ◽

Faculty And Administrators ◽

Assessment Strategies

This chapter introduces online assessment and evaluation and explores strategies to overcome challenges in their design, development, and delivery in online settings. It argues that both assessment and evaluation are process-driven, involving many stakeholders including faculty, administrators, and students. This process includes needs assessment, strategies for asking good questions, knowing where to find information, and how to communicate findings in persuasive ways. By developing a comprehensive system, one based on reliable research principles, faculty and administrators can harvest considerable data that enable stakeholders to refine educational programs and maximize learning.

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