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Assessment Online: Informing Teaching And Learning, Geoff N. Masters
Assessment Online: Informing Teaching And Learning, Geoff N. Masters
Teacher columnist – Geoff Masters
Online assessments are capable of providing significantly improved feedback to teaching and learning. Experience in schools is demonstrating the potential of online assessment – provided the foundations are right.
The advantages of online assessment are often described in terms of its administrative convenience, efficiency and lower costs. However, well-constructed online assessments also are capable of providing more timely, more instructionally useful feedback to teaching and learning. For a number of years ACER has been investigating ways to enhance the educational value of online assessments.