{"id":1485,"date":"2013-07-12T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2013-07-13T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T07:24:00","slug":"e-assessment-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"E-assessment: past, present and future"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have recently submitted a review with the title ‘E-assessment: past, present and future’. I think it is quite good, but I don’t yet know whether others agree with me!\u00a0 Imagine what I felt when I realised that Thomas Hench from Delaware County Community College was giving a paper at CAA2013 <\/a>entitled ‘Electronic assessment: past, present and future’. Tom was similarly amused by our similar titles, but actually the papers are quite different. You’ll have to wait to see mine, but I’d like to say a bit more about Tom’s –\u00a0it was one of the\u00a0best papers\u00a0of the conference.<\/p>\n

Tom had used ERIC to investigate ‘e-markers’ in around 5000 abstracts relating to e-learning and e-assessment, and the paper gave the frequency with which\u00a0e-marker appeared in each year (using a rolling three-year approach).\u00a0 This enabled Tom to plot the ‘evolution’ of e-assessment, as you might do in considering the evolution of various genetic markers.<\/p>\n

Each ‘e-marker’ comprised a ‘prefix’ (e.g.\u00a0electronic, computer, mobile, assisted\/aided\/based, online, web) and an ‘element’ (e.g. instructions, teaching, learning, assessment, testing). The way the markers have evolved is fascinating. Back in 1985, what we had was basically ‘computer-aided instruction’. Since then there has been a marked increase in\u00a0‘learning’ (Tom identified a shift from behaviourism to constructivism) and of the prefixes\u00a0‘online’ and ‘electronic’, associated with the\u00a0growth of the web.\u00a0 See\u00a0Figures 1 and 2\u00a0below:<\/p>\n

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Now look closely at Figure 2 and note the recent growth of the prefix ‘mobile’. The question is, how much of an impact is this latest shift going to have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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