Authentic assessment and the Internet: contributions within knowledge networks
This paper identifies the importance of assessment for student learning, especially "authentic assessment". While recognising that authenticity can be judged against the alignment of assessment with learning goals, and of assessment with real-life activities, the paper asserts a new elemen...
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| description | This paper identifies the importance of assessment for student learning, especially "authentic assessment". While recognising that authenticity can be judged against the alignment of assessment with learning goals, and of assessment with real-life activities, the paper asserts a new element: the degree to which the Internet is part of the everyday lives of most university students. Thus, a third form of authenticity emerges when assessment is aligned with students' use of the Internet for simultaneous informal and formal learning, and the nature of the Internet as a place of active knowledge networking, involving co-creation of information and knowledgeable content (a consequence of the emergence of Web 2.0). The paper argues that developments in assessment using the Internet will only be authentic if they take account of the way the Internet functions outside of higher education, rather than seeing it as an educational technology divorced from its own authenticity. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-240272022-12-09T06:09:40Z Authentic assessment and the Internet: contributions within knowledge networks Allen, Matthew Dron, J. Bastiaens, T. Xin, C. Web 2.0 elearning authentic assessment internet studies knowledge networks This paper identifies the importance of assessment for student learning, especially "authentic assessment". While recognising that authenticity can be judged against the alignment of assessment with learning goals, and of assessment with real-life activities, the paper asserts a new element: the degree to which the Internet is part of the everyday lives of most university students. Thus, a third form of authenticity emerges when assessment is aligned with students' use of the Internet for simultaneous informal and formal learning, and the nature of the Internet as a place of active knowledge networking, involving co-creation of information and knowledgeable content (a consequence of the emergence of Web 2.0). The paper argues that developments in assessment using the Internet will only be authentic if they take account of the way the Internet functions outside of higher education, rather than seeing it as an educational technology divorced from its own authenticity. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24027 http://www.editlib.org/p/32671 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Web 2.0 elearning authentic assessment internet studies knowledge networks Allen, Matthew Authentic assessment and the Internet: contributions within knowledge networks |
| title | Authentic assessment and the Internet: contributions within knowledge networks |
| title_full | Authentic assessment and the Internet: contributions within knowledge networks |
| title_fullStr | Authentic assessment and the Internet: contributions within knowledge networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Authentic assessment and the Internet: contributions within knowledge networks |
| title_short | Authentic assessment and the Internet: contributions within knowledge networks |
| title_sort | authentic assessment and the internet: contributions within knowledge networks |
| topic | Web 2.0 elearning authentic assessment internet studies knowledge networks |
| url | http://www.editlib.org/p/32671 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24027 |