Practical use of Online Assessment

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Practical use of Online Assessment

• EADTU, Heerlen
• Tuesday 26st of September 2006
• http//www.web-spijkeren.nl
• Bart Rienties (University Maastricht)
• b.rienties_at_algec.unimaas.nl
• Dirk Tempelaar
• d.tempelaar_at_ke.unimaas.nl

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Agenda

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Online remedial teaching model
• 3. Prior knowlege testing via web
• 4. 2 Showcase of online testing
• Online Summercourse Economics (simple testing via
  VLE)
• Online Summercourse Mathematics
• (advanced adaptive testing)
• 5. Evaluation Conclusion

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Kinds of On-lineTesting
Adaptieve Testing outside VLEbv. Aleks
Technical possibilities and Content
Technical possibilities vs Content
Content within VLE eg. Course Cartridges of
publishers
Flexibele Toolwithin VLEeg. QuestionMark,
Respondus
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Prior Knowledge student UM (UCM)
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Proportions and percents
Signed numbers and variables difficult items
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Online Remedial Teaching Model
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www.fdewb.unimaas.nl/educ/summercourse/
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Prior knowledge testing via Web
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Prior knowledge test results

• Mathematics
• attempts 524
• completed tests 230
• above threshold 39 (17)
• below threshold 191 (83)
• of students starting at Maastricht 101
• 55 joined (55), mainly German Grundkurs
  students
• Economics
• attempts 379
• completed tests 211
• above threshold 60 (25)
• below threshold 151 (75)
• of students starting at Maastricht ??
• 50 joined mainly German Grundkurs students and
  Dutch college (HBO) students
• From 01-04-2005 till 01-09-2005

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Economics (Link)
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http//www.ALEKS.com/
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ALEKS, Entry Assessment
Online Summercourse Mathematics
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ALEKS Learning Pie
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Evaluation Mathematics
Table 1 End evaluation online summer course
mathematics
Source Rienties, Dijkstra, Rehm, Tempelaar,
Blok (2005), p. 249. NoteAll questions on Likert
scale of 1 (totally disagee) to 5 (totally
agree) with exception to last three questions.
Standard deviation between brackets. If no
distinction is made between the groups (PPassed,
NP Not Passed), then Independent T-sample test
is not significant and average of entire group is
depicted. p lt .05 p lt .01 of Independent
T-sample test.
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Evaluation Economics
Table 2 End evaluation online summer course
Economics
Source Rienties, Dijkstra, Rehm, Tempelaar,
Blok (2005), p. 248. NoteAll questions on Likert
scale of 1 (totally disagee) to 5 (totally
agree) with exception to last three questions.
Standard deviation between brackets. p lt .05
p lt .01 of Independent T-sample test.
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Practical use of Online Assessment

• OU Netherlands, Heerlen
• Tuesday 26st of September 2006
• http//www.web-spijkeren.nl
• Bart Rienties (University Maastricht)
• b.rienties_at_algec.unimaas.nl
• Dirk Tempelaar
• d.tempelaar_at_ke.unimaas.nl