Assessment Reflections

I've really learned a lot in this class. The biggest concept, I think, is that so many applications that I never thought of "in that way" can be used as an assessment option in the online setting. In addtion, the vast majority of those assessment applications force the student to work at a high level of Bloom's Taxonomy, which means less likelihood of plagiarism as well as letting the student build new scaffolds for their learning.

I found this link which does a really nice job of breaking down the roles of learning, teaching, and assessing in school and how they intertwine with each other. Everyone has a role to play--which ties nicely into the theme of this post--how online assessments require students to play an active role in their own learning. Whether it's discussion boards, applications, wikis or blogs, online assessing forces the student to create their own new knowledge, which in my opinion, is real learning.