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Analytics-Enabled Authentic Assessment Design Approach For Digital Education, Tristan Lim, Swapna Gottipati, Michelle L. F. Cheong, Jun Wei Ng, Christopher Pang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

There are known issues in authentic assessment design practices in digital education, which include the lack of freedom-of-choice, lack of focus on the multimodal nature of the digital process, and shortage of effective feedbacks. This study looks to identify an assessment design construct that overcomes these issues. Specifically, this study introduces an authentic assessment that combines gamification (G) with heutagogy (H) and multimodality (M) of assessments, building upon rich pool of multimodal data and learning analytics (A), known as GHMA. This is a skills-oriented assessment approach, where learners determine their own goals and create individualized multimodal artefacts, receive cognitive challenge …