Share Paper: Assessment of Online Discussion: Collecting Discussion Content and Generating Analysis Data for Assessment and Feedback
Tuesday, October 18 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Waimea Canyon
Abstract: Online asynchronous discussion offers great educational opportunities to distance learners as well as bringing benefits to supplement in-class instruction. The use of online discussion forums empowers teachers to emphasize social aspect of learning and promote in-depth discussions even when students are at a distance. Assessing students’ development and achievement via discussion tends to be difficult and the amount of work involved in collecting relevant information for grading can be overwhelming to teachers.This study provides a new approach to addressing the assessment of online discussions, by automating the collection of discussion data and by generating input into the assignment module of ...