Free Online Course on Student Assessment (29th July 2022): Swayam

By Kuntala Sarkar

12 July 2022

 

About

 

Student Assessment and Evaluation is an online SWAYAM course designed and developed for the AICTE Technical Teacher Training Module. The central theme of this MOOC is that the assessment of learning plays a vital role in the instructional process and that its effectiveness depends heavily on the ability of teachers to construct and select tests and assessment procedures that provide valid measures of learning outcomes. This MOOC is structured to provide an interactive learning experience to the faculty members and develop an understanding of how to assess the students in terms of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment. The assessment would provide 360-degree feedback on the student concerning quantitative and qualitative performance. The assessment practices must give clarity between learning versus scoring. Since assessment provides input to the faculty members about their instructional strategies, it helps to plan and improve the Instructional strategies scientifically. So, this MOOC allows the faculty member to gather information about the impact of instructional strategies and how well the student learned the subject. Further, assessment and evaluation provide a pathway to improve the institution.

Syllabus

• To define the functional role of assessment and evaluation in an educational institution.
• To explain the complexity of the content and ability needs to be developed among the students.
• To differentiate convergent and divergent questioning in the assessment practices.
• To differentiate the Direct and Indirect assessment strategies and select the appropriate method.
• Design a Table of Specification (ToS) to prepare the question paper.
• To design a question paper based on the table of specifications.
• To establish the characteristics of the assessment, such as validity and reliability.
• Assess the student’s performance using a performance assessment strategy such as rubrics.
• To perform item analysis of the assessment tool.
• To interpret the assessment score concerning difficulty index and discrimination index.
• To integrate different technology tools for classroom assessment and summative examinations.
• Introduction to Assessment and Evaluation: Introduction to Assessment – Languages of Assessment – Different forms of Assessment – Preparative Assessment – Formative Assessment – Diagnostic Assessment - Summative Evaluation – Questioning in formative assessment.
• Two-Dimensional Learn – Assess Approach: Determine the objectives of the assessment – Learning Question – Instruction Question – Assessment Question – Alignment Question - Mapping Two-dimensional approach of preparing the Instructional purposes with the complexity of questions – Factual Questions – Conceptual Questions – Procedural knowledge Questions – Meta- Cognitive Questions. Assessment procedures: Types of Assessment – Direct Assessment strategies – Indirect Assessment strategies – Maximum performance – Typical performance – Construction of Achievement Test - Types of questions items – Supply type – Selection type – Numerical problem-solving methods – Connect the item type with context. Design of Question Paper: Introduction to Table of Specifications (TOS) – Modules vs. Levels in the TOS – Scheme of Evaluation in TOS – Factors to be considered for preparing TOS.
• Performance Assessment: Overview of Performance Assessment- Checklist – Rating scale - Rubrics – Need for the rubrics – Holistic rubric – Analytic rubric – preparation of Criteria and descriptors for Rubrics – Consolidation of rubric values – B.Tech / M.Tech / Ph.D. thesis Evaluation – Portfolios.
• Establish Characteristics of Assessment: Characteristics of evaluation tool – Validation of the device - Reliability – Validity vs. Reliability – Logical and statistical validity – Usability – Discrimination factors in the Evaluation tool – Interpretation of Test score – Estimate Reliability. Item Analysis: Introduction to item Analysis – Difficulty index – Discrimination Index – Distractor analysis – Norm-referenced interpretation – Criterion Referenced Interpretation Software tools for Assessment: Technology aid for
• Assessment - Benefits of using digital tools for assessment- Free and FOSS tools for preparative assessment, formative assessment, and Evaluation – Performance assessment tool

Course Details

·      Free Online Course

·      English

·      Paid Certificate Available

·      8 weeks long

·      29th Jul, 2022

 

Taught by

Dr. K. S. A. Dinesh Kumar

Link to Enroll

https://www.classcentral.com/course/swayam-student-assessment-95329