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This presentation represents an early conceptualization of my dissertation project on assessment in online higher education. I welcome your thoughts and questions.
Assessment
Use the chat to enter a word or three that represents ‘assessment in online higher education’. How would you finish the sentence that begins ‘Assessment is…’?
Assessment is a process of reasoning from evidence.
(National Research Council, 2001)
How do we come to know what learners know?
Assessment Triangle
Validity and Reliability
High-stakes decisions (all grading decisions, really) should have a minimum reliability (co-efficient alpha, formerly known as Cronbach’s alpha) of .08.
Recall from this morning’s keynote that most teacher-created assessments fall around 0.4…