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Learn about best practices for online student evaluations, including techniques for tests, quizzes, labs, and essay questions. Discover the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of evaluation, addressing issues such as security, technical problems, and test accuracy. Find out ways to enhance assessment validity and overcome challenges faced by both faculty and students.
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Online Student Evaluation Techniques:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly George Fowler (tcfowlg@tc.cc.va.us) Yanyan Yong, Ph.D (tcyongy@tc.cc.va.us) October 10, 1999
How to do Tests • Randomly • Timely • Database Records • Quizzes, labs, & essay questions
The Good • Convenient to faculty & students • Immediate results and feedback • Additional study for mid & finals
The Bad • Security • Technical Problems (AOL) • Over testing?
The Ugly • Challenge to faculty & students • Time consuming (after tests) • Test items accuracy • Maintenance
Students Challenges “I understood that Copernicus also used epicycles in his model. Oh, I see--to make his model more accurate, not to explain retrograde motion.”
Students Challenges “I said that if a planet were 3 AU from the Sun, its sidereal period would be 9 years. Sidereal period is defined in the activity on page 61 and Mars' sideral period is given as 1.88 years. I can't find any discussion of sidereal period in the reading. Mar's period of revolution is 1.881 in the chart on p. 57, so I thought they were the same.”
Students Challenges “On page 68, the text states that Galileo published in Italian, a language common people were more likely to read than Latin, and the resulting controversy was a factor in the churches issuing a proclamation prohibiting Galileo from holding or defending his views.”