Exploring Online Assessment Techniques: Wikis

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Exploring Online Assessment Techniques Wikis
Discussion Boards

• September 28, 2006
• Margaret (Peggy) Cassey, MPH, RN, BC
• Office 1024 College of Nursing (MC 802)
• 312-996-9245
• mcassey_at_uic.edu

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Healthy People 2010 Wiki

• Definition
• A Teams Site (Wiki) is a collaborative Web site
  set up to allow user editing and adding of
  content. Through Blackboard the Wiki feature is
  referred to as Teams Site.
• Benefits
• Students accomplish an otherwise impossible task
  for the time frame
• Faculty can see the history of student edits

Source http//www.uic.edu/depts/accc/itl/blackboa
rd/09i.shtml
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Context of the Wiki/Teams Site

• Community Assessment Paper
• 77 Chicago Community Areas (CA)
• Each student compares single community health
  data set to Chicago, the United States, and the
  Healthy People 2010 (HP 2101) national goals
• Also looking for the health issues for the
  largest population subset in the CA
• Group prepares a shared HP 2010 site

Map Source http//www.cchsd.org/chicago.html
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Analytical Paper Wiki Rubric
FOCUS of Todays Presentation

• Criteria/Requirements
• APA Format 10 page limit
• Minimum of 5 data resources 5 evidence based
  resources
• Up to 2 points for HP 2010 Shared Wiki
  Participation.
• (Point allocations and component details are
  further explained in the complete paper rubric.)
• Papers are submitted via Safe Assignment

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Shared Teams Site
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Discussion Board Assessment Tool

• What does the literature say?
• A Synthesis of Sloan-C Effective Practices,
  August 2005
• http//www.sloan-c.org/publications/books/v9n3_moo
  re.pdf
• Criteria set in the sequential Learning Object
• Course link created discussion board
• Interaction encouraged by required response to
  2 other students postings
• Disallow new threads subscribe
• Grade the forum

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Unit I Technology Tool Sets Click on the link
above to enter the learning activity. This
activity will guide you After completing the
learning unit, go to the discussion board to
respond to this item. To receive full credit for
the assignment, you must also post a response to
two other students' postings
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I agree with both the advantages disadvantages
of using a PDA. I know that I would have a
difficult time keeping track of a PDA if I had
one, and I'd be even more paranoid of damaging
the small, EXPENSIVE equipment. But as you
mentioned, it is a tool that we will all most
likely be encountering in our clinical practice
in the near future, so while it has its
disadvantages, they seem to be outweighed by its
benefits. Hopefully we will all be able to keep
up with this technology!
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Updates from the BB users conference

• Subscribe to the BB discussion board
• Directions to BLKBRD-L archives and settings
  http//is.asu.edu/instruction/faq/usingBLKBRD-L.ht
  ml
• BB Blog http//bbfs.blogspot.com/
• New Assessment Tools Project Caliper

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