Innovation in assessment is no more a choice in a tech-savvy instant age. The purpose of this study was to get more insight into the implementation of formative assessment through the e-learning tool called Black Board (BB) Learning System in our University. The proposal is to implement a series of weekly or fortnightly tests on the BB. These would have options to provide sufficient feedback as...

Introduction Instruments Prior knowledge tests Research intruments Subjects Results Discussion and conclusion References Abstract Many investigations have shown that prior knowledge state is one of the most determining factors and an important predictor of subsequent study outcomes. This research focuses on the evaluation of a set of electronic instruments to make potential students more aware ...

Formative assessment is considered as one of the most effective interventions to support teacher decision-making and improve education student learning. However, formative does not always meet these expectations. In order be effective, activities should consciously coherently planned aligned with other aspects curriculum decisions teachers wish make based on activities. While there sufficient f...

With the implementation of the Bologna Process several challenges have been posed to higher education institution, particularly in Portugal. One of the main implications is related to the change of the paradigm of a teacher centered education, to a paradigm that is student centered. This change implies the change of the way to assess courses in higher education institutions. Continuous and form...

While in traditional learning scenarios, formative assessment relies solely on the judgment of teachers, technology enhanced learning provides means for automatically identifying room for effective learning improvement. Given a digital learning environment and the support of learning analytics, it is possible to infer input for formative assessments. Teachers might be assisted by systems to ada...

The crisis of ineffective learning interactions in schools was expressed in 1998 by Black and Wiliam: ‘in terms of systems engineering, present policies in many countries seem to treat the classroom as a black box’. Since that time many nations have adopted formative assessment as a key strategy for improving classroom instruction and student engagement. The ‘black box’ is an object of criticis...

This document presents initial findings from a Video Interaction Analysis of Professor Sheri Sheppard's Toy Dissection activity, in the ME99 course at Stanford. The goalsof this document are to: (a) help improve the dissection activity and (b) to contribute to anoverall evaluation of the activity for the Synthesis Coalition. We have prepared a video tape of shortscenes from the class activity, ...

Social network awareness (SNA) has been used extensively as one of the strategies to increase knowledge sharing and collaboration opportunities. However, most SNA studies either focus on being aware of peer’s knowledge context or on social context. This work proposes online formative assessments with SNA, trying to address the problems of online formative assessment (i.e. lack of individual ass...