Assessment of the online forum

Carmen I. Reyes Garcia and F. Sosa Moreno

International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 2011, vol. 9, issue 3, 260-272

Abstract: In the last decade, not only the advances in educational investigation but also the reforms promoted in the European Space of Higher Education, have brought about a change in the concept of learning, and in consequence, in the evaluation. However, the evaluation is today a task which is still unfinished in the Spanish university, in which the greater part of the teachers evaluate practically exclusively through a final exam based on memorised questions (Zabalza, 2003; Bonson and Benito, 2005). This traditional model is more obvious in online teaching. In this study we propose the integration of this new model of evaluation in the e-learning Moodle Platform and we propose the online forum as a communication tool with wide possibilities for didactic innovation and for the assessment from an alternative approach. We also offer a proposal to assess the online forum via an instrument like the rubric.

Keywords: alternative assessments; authentic assessments; universities; online teaching; e-learning; electronic learning; rubrics; evaluation scales; seminars; online forums; internet; world wide web; educational investigation; European Space of Higher Education; Spain; final examinations; memorised questions; communication tools; didactic innovation; Moodle; course management systems; CMSs; learning management systems; LMSs; virtual learning environments; VLEs; challenges. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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