Students, through all stages of education, grasp new knowledge in the context of knowledge memorized all through their previous education. To self-predict personal proficiency in education, selfassessment acts as an important learning feedback. The in-house developed Studio suit for educational self-assessment enables to model the educational domain as an ontology-based knowledge structure, con...

Accountability of educational institutions is a current trend in academia. Outcomes assessment provides a method of evaluating educational programs to ensure they are meeting their objectives. This paper presents an overview of outcomes assessment and describes its relationship to and integration with program evaluation. It also describes the implementation of an outcomes assessment program at ...

Over 10 years ago, a National Research Council committee led by Jim Pellegrino and Robert Glaser generated the fundamental text on educational assessment titled, Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment (NRC, 2001). In this document, the authors emphasize that assessment is a process of reasoning from evidence, ‘‘a process by which educators use students’ res...

Traditional standardized educational tests often serve a summative purpose, reporting what students know after the learning phase has been completed. In this sense, they serve as an assessment of learning, with little or no implication for future instruction. By contrast, assessments may be used formatively; that is, they may be used to change the course of instruction as part of the assessment...

Digital learning games are useful educational tools with high motivational potential. With the application of games for instruction there comes the need of acknowledging learning game experiences also in the context of educational assessment. Learning analytics provides new opportunities for supporting assessment in and of educational games. We give an overview of current learning analytics met...

 In this paper, we describe aspects related to learning and learning assessment including pedagogy, cognition, pilot study and results from the study. This study is conducted for an educational module on “10 Principles of Materials Handling”. This module along with another titled “Analysis and Design of Integrated Material Handling Systems” constitute a system of multimedia educational tools f...