New Directions for Assessment in a Digital World
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Enabling Power of Assessment, 2020, 7, pp. 7-18
- Issue Date:
- 2020-01-01
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Assessment exists within a series of pedagogical, administrative and technological legacy practices. It tends therefore to reflect the needs and concerns of a previous time. However, this does not align with a digitally enabled world with rapidly expanding information and an increasingly dynamic view of knowledge. This chapter explores how to reimagine assessment in a time of digital change. Firstly, it investigates how assessment designs can draw on technology to move beyond the status quo, providing an example of a programmatic e-portfolio. Next, it introduces the idea that assessments should enable graduates to work in the digital world. This is discussed through an illustration of how students can build effective digital personas, including social media profiles, within their assessments. Finally, it looks to the inter-relationship between assessment and knowledge in a digital world, suggesting co-construction as a guiding principle. Often assessment is overlooked in discussions of educational technology. Reimagining university assessment is a key way to make teaching and learning applicable to a digital world.
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