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Saturday, August 17, 2002
http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/deos/deosnews/deosnews11_12.asp Evaluating Student Mastery and Program Effectiveness Maggie McVay Lynch Adapted from book chapter in Lynch, M. (2002). The Online Educator: Creating the Virtual Classroom. London: Routledge. Evaluation of students in Web-based education should occur much as it does in traditional classroom settings. The key is determining how to do that when students are not physically present. It is equally important to evaluate the course effectiveness and the success of the entire Web-based program. For over two decades, a dualistic debate has raged over whether assessment should focus on accountability or improvement. Today, most educators have come to accept that dealing with both is important. However, this article will concentrate on evaluation as being first and foremost about improving student learning and secondarily about determining accountability for the quality of learning produced. Angelo (1999) discussed the challenges of student and program assessment. He proposed four pillars of transformative assessment to help evaluation move forward within a learning community of students and faculty involved in assessment. His four pillars are:...
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