AS4ODFL/Assessment and learning/Assessing to learn



Perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of distance learning and emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 has been the aspect of assessment. In addition to putting your course materials online, you may have been anxious to confirm what students know, and check whether or not they have met curriculum outcomes. In other words your focus may have been on assessment of learning rather than assessment for learning.

Stop worrying about testing and start thinking about learning
In a post on Inside Higher Ed, in response to the pandemic, Jody Greene writes: By attempting to replicate in-person assessments in online settings, we fail to recognize that a change of medium may require a change of design ... don’t immediately jump to the conclusion that you can or should just “put the final exam online.” … Give yourself permission to think outside the parameters of your original assessments and ask the question, what can we do here that keeps learning happening?