REAQ

Lester GilbertGary Wills

Bill WarburtonVeronica Gale

Report on E-Assessment QualityA JISC project in eLearning

October 2009

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THE PITCH

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The system

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Assessment

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Quality management

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Report questions

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REAQ process

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The team

Management group Lester Gilbert, ECS, University of Southampton , PI Dr Gary Wills, ECS, University of Southampton

Expert consultants group Cliff Beevers, Heriot-Watt Paul Booth, Question Tools John Kleeman & Greg Pope, Questionmark Harvey Mellor, IoE Chris Ricketts, Plymouth Denise Whitelock, OU

The workers Veronica Gale, Consultant researcher Bill Warburton, iSolutions, University of Southampton

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Interviewees

HEIs Heriot-Watt University of Southampton Newcastle University University of Plymouth The Open University Edinburgh University Institute of Education

Cambridge Assessment SQA Question Tools (Network Rail) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Questions asked (1)

What denotes ‘high quality’ in summative e-assessment? What steps do you follow to create and use summative e-

assessment? How do you ensure e-assessment:

reliability, validity, security, and accessibility?

How does the process of creating good quality e-assessment differ from the process of creating traditional assessment?

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Questions asked (2)

Please give us examples of good e-assessment; why are these ‘good’?

When you have heard of poor e-assessment, what has made it ‘poor’?

What feedback have you received from students who have taken e-assessments?

What advice would you give to others using summative e-assessment?

What research or other work has informed your thinking about summative e-assessment?

What further research would you like to see conducted?

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EXPERT EXPECTATIONS

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We expected to hear about…

… delivery issues…

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And hear about…

… psychometric measures…… intended learning outcomes …

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As well as hearing about…

… appropriate standards …

… and if we were lucky, capability maturity …

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WHAT WE HEARD

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We did hear an (awful) lot about…

Delivery issues:infrastructure, support, andhow things go wrong …

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But not much about…

Point biserials, Cronbach Alphas,Kuder-Richardsons

Content validity,Conformance to ILOs

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And hardly anything about…

Metrics,Capabilitymaturity

Practicestandards

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And when we did hear…

Difficulty coefficients / facility values were ofteninappropriately used…

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SO…

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Conclusions

Essentially, little support for e-assessment, in the areas of:

Tools & toolkits Guidance & advice focused upon quality Exemplars of good practice

Little evidence for:

Maturity of good practice Expectations (‘demand characteristics’) of quality

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Recommendations

Tools & toolkits Exemplars of good practice Project to develop item bank quality statistics Suppliers to make quality reports more accessible Workshops, guidance, & advice focused upon quality:

Quality management Standards Metrics & psychometrics Capability maturity

JISC bids & project outputs to include, as relevant: Psychometric measures Standards Capability maturity modelling

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THANKS!

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