Preface
Section 1 How does assessment affect learning?
1. Overview
- Why do we assess?
- Relationship between learning and assessment
- Assessment for learning
- Assessment and grading
Section 2 How will I make e-assessment?
2. Guidelines for assessment practices
- Professional bodies publishing guidelines on assessment
- Assessment models
- e-Assessment practices and their relationship to learning
3. Types of e-Assessment items
- types of e-assessment
4. Cosequences of using e-assessment
- Risks involved in using e-assessment
- How is e-assessment currently being used?
- What are the limitations of e-assessments?
5. Choosing the right e-assessment software
- choosing an appropriate assessment format
- how do you want to administer your e-assessments?
- what do you want to administer your e-assessments?
- what type of questions do you want to ask?
- choices in e-assessment software
- other types in online assessment software
- adaptive assessment software
Section 3 What does e-assessment look like?
6. e-assessment examples by discipline
- General sources of e-assessment questions
- Accounting, Commerce and Economics
- Arts and Humanities
- Biological and Health Sciences
- Chemical Sciences
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Physics and Engineering
- Mathematics
Section 4. What are the practical issues when doing e-assessment
7. Item and Test Bank use
- constructing Ttem and Test Banks
- using Item and Test Banks
- non-adaptive test delivery methods
- adaptive test delivery methods
8. Grading and marking Items from the Test Bank
- general grading and marking issues
- negative and confidence level marking of objective items
- marking selective response items
9. Validity and reliability
- overview of validity and reliability
- classical test theory
- Item response theory
- Rasch modelling
- estimating reliability
- evaluation of test banks
10. Standards, specifications and guidelines
- assessment standards
- national standards
- professional association standards and guidelines
- identifying standards
- content standards, specifications and guidelines
- assessment content metadata
- interoperability
11. Security issues
- authentication of appropriate access
- secure assessment environments and software
- standards and guidelines
- what to do when things go wrong
12. Accessibility issues
- statutory requirements for accessibility
- good practice guidelines
- testing accessibility
- improving accessibility
- assistive technologies
Section 5 How Do I Make e-Assessment Interactive
13. Assessing discussion groups and collaborative tasks
- communicating and collaborating online
- overview
- examples of software for e-collaboration
- design principles
- collaborative problem solving and group work
- online discussion groups
14. Interactive assessment and Java applets
- learning designs
- simulations
- Java applets
15. Assessing role playing and games
- characteristics of online role-plays
- senario-based
- game-based
Section 6 What about the future?
16. The future of e-assessment
- current perceptions of where e-assessment is heading
- drivers for change
- what will it be like in the future
Appendices
Glossary
