Assessment Strategies

Assessment Strategies

Competent Digital Educators use digital technologies for formative and summative assessments. They enhance the diversity and suitability of assessment formats and approaches.

Typical activities

  • They use digital assessment tools to monitor the learning process and obtain information on learners’ progress.
  • They use digital technologies to enhance formative assessment strategies, e.g. using classroom response systems, quizzes, games.
  • They use digital technologies to enhance summative assessment in tests, e.g. through computer-based tests, implementing audio or video (e.g. in language learning), using simulations or subject-specific digital technologies as test environments.
  • They use digital technologies to scaffold learners’ assignments and their assessment, e.g. through ePortfolios.
  • They use of a variety of digital and non-digital assessment formats and be aware of their benefits and drawbacks.
  • They critically reflect on the appropriateness digital assessment approaches and adapt strategies accordingly.

    • When mastering this competence by doing the work in the lab, you should be able to say:

  • I use digital technologies to create assessment tasks which are then administered in paper-format.
  • I plan for students’ use of digital technologies in assessment tasks, e.g. in support of assignments.
  • I use some existing digital technologies for formative or summative assessment, e.g. digital quizzes, e-portfolios, games.
  • I adapt digital assessment tools to support my specific assessment goal, e.g. create a test using a digital test system.
  • I use a range of e-assessment software, tools and approaches, for formative assessment, both in the classroom and for learners to use after school.
  • I select between different assessment formats the one that most adequately captures the nature of the learning outcome to be assessed.
  • I design digital assessments which are valid and reliable.

    In the lab we will also:

  • Use a variety of digital and non-digital assessment formats, aligned with content and technology standards, and create awareness of their benefits and drawbacks.
  • Critically reflect on our use of digital technologies for assessment and adapt our strategies accordingly.