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1、AssessmentandCollaborationinOnlineLearningASSESSMENTANDCOLLABORATIONINONLINELEARNINGKarenSwanResearchCenterforEducationalTechnology,KentStateUniversityJiaShenSchoolofManagement,NewYorkInstituteofTechnologyStarrRoxanneHiltzNewJerseyInstituteofTechnolog
2、yABSTRACTAssessmentcanbeseenastheenginethatdrivesstudentcourseactivity,onlineoroff.Itisparticularlyimportantinencouragingandshapingcollaborativeactivityonline.Thispaperdiscussesthreesortsofonlinecollaborativeactivity—collaborativediscussion,smallgroup
3、collaboration,andcollaborativeexams.Ineachoftheseareas,itprovidesboththeoreticalgroundingandpracticaladviceforassessing,andsoencouraging,collaborationinonlinecourses.KEYWORDSOnlineCollaboration,Assessment,CourseDiscussion,SmallGroupWork,CollaborativeE
4、xamsI.INTRODUCTIONThethemeofthispaperistheimportanceofassessmenttolearning;thatwhatisassessediswhatisvalued,andifyouvaluecollaborationasaninstructor,youneedtofindwaystomotivatestudentsandtoassesscollaborativeactivity.However,inmostonlinecourses,tradit
5、ionalinstructor-centeredexaminationremainstheprimarymeansforassessingstudentperformance,andcollaborativelearningisundervaluedandsomarginalized.Thispaperaddressesthatissue.Thepaperbeginswithanoverviewofthechangingnatureofassessmentineducationandaddress
6、esassessingonlinecollaboration—whyitisimportantandwhyitisdifficult.Itthenexploresingreaterdepthtwocommonandquitedifferentkindsofonlinecollaboration,collaborativeonlinediscussion,andcollaborativesmallgroupprojects.Finally,findingsfromarecentdissertatio
7、nwhichintroducedandmeasuredtheeffectivenessofinnovativecollaborativeexaminationproceduresaresummarized.Ineachortheseareaswelayouttheissues,theoreticalandpracticalinvolvedinassessingonlinecollaboration,aswellasgiveexamplesofhowtoassess(andsoencourage)i
8、ndividualandgroupworkfordifferingsortsofactivities.A.WhatisAssessment?Valueinanyinstructionalsystemcomesfromassessment;whatisassessedinacourseoraprogramiswhatisvalued;whatisvaluedbecomesthefocusofactivity.Thelinktolearningisdirect.Instructorss
