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Apresentação feita na Universidade de Aveiro no âmbito do projeto SPEAQ (Sharing Practice in Enhancing and Assuring Quality)TRANSCRIPT
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
assessment as a strategy to promote teaching and learning
quality in blended contextsproject SPEAQ@UA seminar
17 May 2013
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
objective interaction case 1 case 2 case 3 case 4 case 5 final thoughts
topicstopics
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
share experiences/reflections
objective
blended learning http://edbuzz.org/sroner/2009/07/blended-learning-boosts-achievement/
http://cronicasparamaistarderecordar.blogspot.pt/2009/08/redes-sociais-era-da-partilha-digital_04.html
objective
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
creating, managing and sustaining
interaction
critical aspect
interaction
http://www.userlike.com/article/online-customer-interaction
http://www.dren.org/online_learning.65.php
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveirointeraction
learners interact
blended learning contexts
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveirointeraction
“ba - shared context in which knowledge is (…) created and utilised” (Nonaka et al., 2000)
Source: Rai (2011), adapted from Nonaka et al., (2000)
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveirointeraction
Quality interaction involves critical thinking and reflection (assessment)
http://theunboundedspirit.com/how-to-improve-critical-thinking-and-decision-making-in-discussions/
CRITICALHINKING
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
should provide opportunities to learn and cultivate community sense• continuous participation (posting)
introductory biographical posts (personal pages – Web 2.0)familiarization sessions with the technology (face to face)! no posting doesn’t imply no learning (lurkers interact with content)
• social presence/community sense (belonging, respect, …)integration of stories (personal episodes)use smiles, affective expressions, humor …
• cognitive involvement task should meet students needs, authentic learning -> flexibility,
negotiation thread discussions
• mix synchronous and asynchronous tech.• feedback
interaction
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
educacional tech.(initial teachers’ education)
thread discussions (teachers-led)
ICT integrationInternet security…
case 1
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
assessment criteria• quantity as well as quality
relevance, correctness, deepness, critical thinking, reference to peers posts, participation
teacher assessment
• helped students to auto-assess their contributions• increased the:
participation quality of the interaction
case 1
added-value
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
professional education
social network - thread discussions
(students-led) share problems/questions “I had problems to
install software X, can you help me?”
- blogs (reflection)
case 2
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
assessment categories
questions
teacher assessment
improved participationrelevance of the questions
peer feedbackimproved problems
specification: “… explain the situation …”
Questions
Open Closed
Professional
relevant9 16
Academic 1 5
case 2
some students felt uncomfortable students’ lack of written communication competencies
added-value
constraint
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
MsD post-graduation(EvalEducSoftware)
5 weeks, 2 face-to-face sessions (12h each) and group work at a distance
blogshttp://ase07.blogspot.com/
auto, peer and teacher assessment
case 3
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveirocase 3
students’ perceptions
students’ reflections 1
students’ reflections 2
auto + hetero - assessment
hetero - assessment
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
Activities and explored tools
0 4 8 12 16
Activities' framework
Organization of the face-to-face sessions
Suitability of the activities
Suitability of the theoretical framework
Intra-group interaction
Inter-group interaction
Relevance of the communication tools
Relevance of the discussions
Suitability of the assessment strategies
Duration of the module
To
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s
Number of students
completely disagree disagree agree completely agree don't know
case 3
N=19
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveirocase 3
The relevance and dificulties of the tasks
0 4 8 12 16
Survey of perceptions
Reading of bibliography
Discussion and synthesis of reading
Self-assessment
Group work
Presentation and discussion of group work
Self- and hetero-assessment
Concept maps
Hetero-assessment of collaboration competences
Pro
po
sed
tas
ks
Number of students
dificultyrelevance
N=19
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
post-graduation (EAD)
wiki http://ead0809.wetpaint.com/
assessment strategies (similar to the previous case)
peer-assessment of the progress (1th version work) compulsory
some students felt uncomfortable assessment activities are not
valued
case 4
constraint
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
post-graduation (Evaluation and quality in education)
LMS forums
auto and group assessment (learning strategies/online com)
assessment activities valuedincreased interaction and reflection level
case 5
0 5 10 15 20
a1
a3
a5
a7
a9
a11
a13
Níveis de participação passiva e activa
% mensagens
% acesso
added-value
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
have we promoted learning (online interaction) quality?teachers and/or peers assessment is essential
cases 1, 2, and 5students perceptions about evaluation and assessment
cases 3 and 4time consuming if teacher centeredcompatibility with diversity of task both of students (part time) and HE
teachers
shouldn’t be explored in a single module/discipline
final thoughts
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
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Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveirocase 2
Voltar
Maria João Loureiro
assessment as a strategy to promote online interaction
CIDTFF, DE, Universidade de Aveiro
assessment categories
Interação – referencia a outro(s) participante(s) ou a mensagens de outros participantes. Existe ainda algum nível de interação quando numa mensagem se solicita o contributo de outros participantes (“Aceitam-se contributos (…)”).
Partilha de informação – mensagens em que se emite uma opinião, se faz uma afirmação, se avança uma proposta (“(…) uma forma de ultrapassar a dificuldade que acabaram de relatar, poderá passar por (…)”) se partilha leituras ou experiências. Nesta categoria incluíram-se também as mensagens em que se partilhava informação de forma sintetizada (embora não envolvendo avaliação e reflexão).
Discussão – mensagens em que existe identificação de problemas ou dissonâncias (“penso que será necessário em primeiro lugar refletir (…)”) ou questionamento (formulação de questões), distingue-se da categoria “interação_incentivo”, dado haver solicitação com questões concretas.
Reflexão – agruparam-se nesta categoria as mensagens em que existe análise do percurso (“Senti uma necessidade imediata de repartir, comunicar e refletir (…)”) ou avaliação.
Case 5