New educational dynamics require new assessment strategies. In this article, three strategies for evaluating the collaboration of learners are presented and discussed: assessment of participation in conferences, assessment of competence and collaborative assessment. These strategies have been investigated in a course taught entirely at distance by the AulaNet, which supplies some mechanisms for...

The researcher conducted present study with the objectives to a). evaluate attitude of learners towards academic and tutoring skills of distance education tutors, b). assess the opinion of distance learners about assessment and evaluation skills of their tutors and c). examine reflection of learners on scaffolding skills of distance education tutors. The population of the study consisted of lea...

With the increased interest in the use of entrustable professional activities (EPAs) in undergraduate medical education (UME) and graduate medical education (GME) come questions about the implications for assessment. Entrustment assessment combines the evaluation of learners' knowledge, skills, and behaviors with the evaluation of their readiness to be entrusted to perform critical patient care...

BACKGROUND The current, so-called "Millennial" generation of learners is frequently characterized as having deep understanding of, and appreciation for, technology and social connectedness. This generation of learners has also been molded by a unique set of cultural influences that are essential for medical educators to consider in all aspects of their teaching, including curriculum design, stu...

Dynamic assessment (DA) as an alternative to psychometric-based testing focuses on the collaborative dialogue between the learners and the mediator to move the learners from their current capabilities. This study represents a web-based qualitative inquiry in online DA which aims at addressing the inadequacy of the diagnostic feedback of the web-based DIALANG test in reflecting learners’ potenti...

With the rapid development of massive open online courses, peer assessment has played an important role in promoting social learning. According to social learning theory, peer assessment in online courses provides students a chance to learn from each other when they review other students’ submissions, which motivates their participation in online social learning. However, existing peer assessme...

Assessment plays an important role in the distance-learning research. Generally, the process of instruction completed with the assessment that be used to evaluate learners’ learning efficiency, skill and knowledge. With the evaluation of assessment results, instructor can judge learners’ learning efficiency and ability; students also can find out whether they acquire the learning material compl...

Adaptive assessment provides efficient and personalised routes to establishing the proficiencies of learners. We can envisage a future in which learners are able to maintain and expose their competency profile to multiple services, throughout their life, which will use the competency information in the model to personalise assessment. Current competency standards tend to over simplify the repre...

This study sought to investigate dynamic assessment (DA) - an assessment approach that embeds inter- vention within the assessment process and that yields information about the learner’s responsiveness to this intervention - and the writing performance of the second language (L2) learners in Web 2.0 contexts. To this end, pre and post-treatment writings of 45 par...

A translation portfolio is a systematic collection of student's translations or reports of tasks torepresent a variety of student's achievements in the translation course over a specified period oftime. This paper aims to investigate the effect of portfolio assessment in the translatingclassroom in an attempt to examine its impact on EFL learners' metacognitive awareness. Todetermine the impact...