What gets measured gets taught. This is one of the great truisms of education.
Assessment drives instruction. Yet assessment is typically the weakest component of an eLearning program. Why is this so?
- In many cases assessment is characterized by a number of practices that impede, rather than enable, learning.
- Many online continuing education programs may be reluctant to assess summatively whether and what learners have learned as a result of the program.
- Programs may measure only the product of student learning versus the learner’s progress and process in and of learning.
- Online programs may use standardized tests that measure out-of-date skills—focusing on declarative knowledge (facts) versus procedural, conceptual, and epistemological knowledge (application of skills, deep understanding, and methods of knowledge acquisition, respectively).
Via Edumorfosis