11105

11105

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

Online Assessment Strategies That Work
Thomas Smyth, Univ of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, SC, USA, smyth@usca.edu

This presentation describes the relative effectiveness of a variety of assessment strategies as implemented in undergraduate and graduate online courses. These strategies range from online quizzes with immediate feedback to peer evaluation using online collaborative Web 2.0 tools. An attempt will be made to match the appropriate tools with types of content as well as specifics pedagogies of online instruction. Examples will be provided and critically evaluated.

Novice, Intermediate online assessment, web 2.0, pedagofy