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Enhancing Online Assessments: Tips, Types, and Tools for Effective Testing

Discover the what's and why's of online assessments, assessment types, test questions, SafeAssign, rubrics, and more. Explore advantages and disadvantages of online assessments, uses, types of questions, building tests, academic integrity, grading assignments, and SafeAssign. Learn best practices, test creation techniques, strategies to maintain integrity, and tips for grading using rubrics in Blackboard. Empower your online teaching with effective assessment methods.

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Enhancing Online Assessments: Tips, Types, and Tools for Effective Testing

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  1. Online Assessments:SafeAssign + Tips and Pitfalls • “Whats” and “Whys” of assessments • Assessment types • Types of test questions • Assignments • Rubrics • SafeAssign • Peer Review

  2. Blackboard’s Assessment Features • Blackboard’s “Assessments” • Tests • Surveys • Other Assessment Tools • Assignments • Self and Peer Assessments • SafeAssignments • Links to External Publisher Assessment Tools • Other Gradable Activities • Discussion Forums • Journals, Blogs, Wikis • “Instructor’s Choice”

  3. Advantages of Online Assessments • Increase student engagement • Provide timely feedback • Location- and time-independent • Automatic score recording • Time-saving (Students and Instructors) • Inclusion of online media

  4. Disadvantages of Online Assessment • Students require technology • Students require technology skills • Technology problems • Impersonal • Difficulty providing assistance during a test • Integrity Issues

  5. Uses for Online Tests • Traditional Testing • Gather (useful) information • Assess your teaching • Pre-class preparation • Online Worksheets • Practice tests

  6. Commonly-used Types of Questions

  7. Commonly-used Types of Questions • Multiple Choice • Students pick the single correct answer • True/False • Students choose whether a statement is true or false • Fill in the Blank • Students must fill in a blank or blanks with the correct answers

  8. Commonly-used Types of Questions • Matching • Provides two columns for students to match • Short Answer or Essay • Students type their answers into a text box • Only difference is the size of the answer box • File Response • Students can upload a file to answer the question

  9. More Types of Test Questions • Calculated Formula • Assigns values to variables in an equation and asks students to calculate the answer • Calculated Numeric • Fill in the Blank question which only accepts a numeric answer • Hotspot • Student must click on the correct (rectangular) area of an image

  10. Still More Types of Test Questions • Jumbled Sentence • Students select the correct order of answers from a drop down list containing all of the potential answers • Opinion Scale / Likert • Survey-style answers based on an ordered scale • Quiz Bowl • Jeopardy-style “answer with a question” • Either/Or • Fancier True/False question which allows other dichotomous answers like agree/disagree • Multiple Answer • Students choose all answers which are correct • Ordering • Students must place a list in the correct order

  11. How to Build a Test • Manually, from scratch • Use Respondus to import from .doc files • Re-using questions • From other tests • From Pools

  12. Test Exceptions and Feedback

  13. Test Best Practice • Provide a practice test in your Course • Provide Test‐Taking information to your class • Randomize the order of answers • Don’t use “all of the above” and “none of the above” or other positional questions • Use a mixture of question types • Structure tests with sets • Avoid large images or other large media

  14. Academic Integrity • Difficult to prevent students from referring to other sources • Online tests should be viewed as open book • Steps to reduce the potential for dishonesty: • Have students sign an academic integrity policy • Limit the time for completing the test • Use “Question Sets” and randomization to present a different version of a test to each student • Create a follow-up assignment requiring students to apply the knowledge they have demonstrated on a test • Proctor the online tests where you can monitor student activity

  15. Assignments • Allows for paperless marking • A “drop box” for electronic submission • Automatic creation of Grade Center column • Drop box “closes” on or shortly after the due date • Two kinds available • Regular Blackboard “assignment submission area” • SafeAssignment

  16. Grading Assignments

  17. Grading an Assignment • From the Grade Assignment Window: • Download submitted document • (Use track changes?) • Enter comments • Enter Grade • Upload marked document

  18. Rubrics • Clarify expectations for assignment • Standardize marking across graders • Improve feedback • Time-saving

  19. Create Rubric

  20. Grading With A Rubric

  21. Rubrics Available… • Assignments • SafeAssignments • Essay, Short Answer, and File Response test questions • Blogs and journals • Wikis • Discussion board forums and threads

  22. SafeAssign: The Plagiarism Detection Tool for Blackboard SafeAssign™ is a plagiarism detection and identification service included with our Blackboard license. It helps educators determine if plagiarism has occurred by detecting unoriginal content in student papers.

  23. Instructors: How to Begin • Go to a Content Page such as ‘Course Content’ • Under ‘Assessments’ choose SafeAssignment. • Choose ‘student viewable’ = NO

  24. How Does SafeAssign Work? • The submitted papers are checked against SafeAssign’s databases of source material: • The Internet: comprehensive index of documents available for public access on the Internet. • ProQuest ABI/Inform database. • Institutional document archives. • Global Reference database: papers volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions. • Trent students cannot contribute to the Global Database.

  25. Sample Originality Report

  26. Types of Submissions • Student Submit: • A dropbox is created in Blackboard • Student may submit only one document • Paper becomes part of the Trent repository • Direct Submit: • Instructors can submit particular papers or portions of papers • Paper becomes part of the Trent repository

  27. Best Practices for SafeAssign • Do not use the ‘student viewable’ option • greatly increase questions and anxiety for students • report should be viewed subjectively by the instructor • Do not use the ‘draft’ option • draft assignments do not join the Trent Repository • Demonstrate to your students: • what a safeAssign report shows • emphasize whether or not it’s plagiarism is still subjective

  28. To Be Aware Of • “Trent Respository” and the “Global Respository” hosted on Blackboard’s servers in the US • Documents are identified by code number • Key linking code and student is held only on Trent’s server • Trent students’ submissions cannot become part of the Global Repository • Disabled for Trent

  29. Peer Review • The Blackboard Guide: http://www.trentu.ca/it/learningsystem/documents/self_peer_assessment.pdf • Blackboard’s Help Pages: https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_SP_10_and_SP_11/Instructor/070_Assignments/005_Self_and_Peer_Assessment • A good quick guide from University of New South Wales: https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/blackboard-assessment

  30. Questions Contact Us: Web: http://www.trentu.ca/trentonline Email: online@trentu.ca

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