Workgroups eAssessment: Planning, Implementing and Analysing Frameworks

263 Pages·2020·6.485 MB·English

by  Rosalina Babo, Nilanjan Dey, Amira S. Ashour

Intelligent Systems Reference Library 199
Rosalina Babo
Nilanjan Dey
Amira S. Ashour   Editors
Workgroups
eAssessment:
Planning,
Implementing
and Analysing
Frameworks
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and Analysing Frameworks
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Rosalina Babo Nilanjan Dey
Porto Accounting andBusiness School Department ofComputer Science
Polytechnic of Porto andEngineering
Porto, Portugal JISUniversity
Kolkata, India
Amira S. Ashour
Department ofElectronics andElectrical
Communications Engineering, Faculty
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TantaUniversity
Tanta, Egypt
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Preface
The use of collaborative work is increasing in various institutions. May they be
higher education institutions, small or big companies, sporting organisations or
other. This way of working can demand and improve a set of skills, such as
cooperative ability, critical reasoning, creative thinking, responsibility, planning
and communication. It also can provide motivation, learning opportunities and
increase productivity. However, not every person has the same performance rate
which leads to trust issues among the team members and a fault in the efficiency
of the tasks. Hence, the assessment of the team members becomes an essential
procedure, which can ensure that the individuals will meet the intended outcomes.
Eachevaluatorhastheirstrategytoovercomeissuesandpresentviablesolutions
to distinguish team members and provide fair feedback. However, the way the
individual contribution is assessed can be unclear and biased, and as a result, the
evaluatorhastoresort tonewmethodsofassessment.Forthatpurpose,there area
variety of tools and techniques that can be used in several approaches.
Thisbookseekstoovercometheassessmentcomplexityusingnewframeworks
and computer tools. It also reports the challenges and the new perspectives in
developing e-assessment systems.
The book is a collection of nine chapters which are written by eminent
professors,researchers andacademic studentsfrom several countries.Thechapters
were initially peer-reviewed by the editorial board members who themselves span
over different countries. The whole book is divided into two parts, namely Part I
Assessment and Collaboration and Part II E-Assessment Approaches.
The first part, Assessment and Collaboration, comprises the following chapters
andintendstoprovideadeeperunderstandingontheimportanceofassessmentand
collaboration, as well as some of the existing collaboration tools.
Chapter 1 by Katherina Gallardo tries to understand the importance of assess-
ment literacy in the students’ learning processes, by explaining the learning
assessment practices according to psycho-pedagogical paradigms. Also, the sig-
nificance ofInformationandCommunicationTechnologiestoolsintheassessment
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isexplained.Thechaptermakessomerecommendationsintheformof“lessons”to
assist the educators in improving their assessment practices.
Chapter 2 by Salim Chujfi, Hanadi Traifeh, Thomas Staubitz, R. Refaie and
C.Meinelanalysesthecollaborationinonlinetrainingenvironmentswiththeuseof
anonlinecourseandthattheassessmentofdigitalremoteteamscanbesuccessfully
implemented by means of assisting team building and encouraging virtual
participation.
Chapter 3 by Paz Prendes-Espinosa, Isabel Gutiérrez-Porlán and Pedro
A. García-Tudela presents an extensive literature on collaborative tools and their
functionalities.Itanalysesthepossibilitiesofcollaborationinhighereducationwith
real examples.
Chapter 4byDalbert OliveiraandAnaLúciaTerraexplains inamorepersonal
waytheuseofonlinecollaborativetools,aswellastheirstrengthsandweaknesses.
Itusesthelifehistorymethodologytoacquireinformationandcarefullyanalysethe
data that was gathered first hand.
Chapter 5 by Catalin Popescu and L. Avram provides an insight on online
questionnairesandwhetherthesearereliabletoconsideralltheinformationrelated
to project implementation. It intends to be a good practice guide in the imple-
mentation of projects to introduce new study programmes.
The second part, E-Assessment Approaches, composed by the following chap-
ters, presents different approaches and tools to carry the assessment process.
Chapter6byBastianKüppersandUlrikSchroederconcernsthedevelopmentof
a framework to conduct evaluations in HEI with a Bring Your Own Device
(BYOD) approach. The authors developed an application for electronic exams on
students’ devices in a BYOD environment: FLEX. FLEX’s main goal is to be a
software solution that enables electronic assessments within the MATSE educa-
tional program.
Chapter7byJoachimMadererandChristianGütlexplainstheneedofaflexible
and adaptive assessmentsystem. This system shouldbeable to: be integrated with
differentlearningenvironments;recognizeskillsandtheapplicationofknowledge;
and reuse learning and assessment items. Therefore, this chapter presents the
Antares framework, its architecture, assessment interface, assignment and assess-
ment engine, as well as an example of its working.
Chapter8byPauloC.Oliveira,O.Constante,M.AlvesandF.Pereiraprovides
an interesting study in one Portuguese higher education institution, involving the
useofelectronictoolstoassurethatthestudentsperformtheirpreparatoryworkin
advance to the laboratory classes.
Chapter9byUrsulaNiederländerandElisabethKatzlingerprovidesadiscussion
on the use of a LMS Moodle plugin “StudentQuiz” to allow students to create
questionsandanswers.Thismethodalsoallowsthemtotest,commentandratethe
questions of their classmates.
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The authors address important matters on assessment and e-assessment, col-
laboration environments and tools, as well as different and new assessment prac-
tices. Those interested in using new technologies and different learning
environments will benefit from these studies. We hope that this book will assist
researchers and students interested in carrying out further research in this area.
Porto, Portugal Rosalina Babo
Kolkata, India Nilanjan Dey
Tanta, Egypt Amira S. Ashour
Contents
Part I Assessment and Collaboration
1 The Importance of Assessment Literacy: Formative
and Summative Assessment Instruments and Techniques . . . . . . . . 3
Katherina Gallardo
2 Exploring Collaboration and Assessment of Digital Remote
Teams in Online Training Environments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
S. Chujfi, H. Traifeh, T. Staubitz, R. Refaie, and C. Meinel
3 Collaborative Work in Higher Education: Tools and Strategies
to Implement the E-Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
M. P. Prendes-Espinosa, I. Gutiérrez-Porlán, and P. A. García-Tudela
4 Online and Collaborative Tools During Academic
and Erasmus Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
D. M. Oliveira and A. L. Terra
5 Good Practices for Online Extended Assessment
in Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
C. Popescu and L. Avram
Part II E-Assessment Approaches
6 FLEX: A BYOD Approach to Electronic Examinations. . . . . . . . . . 145
Bastian Küppers and Ulrik Schroeder
7 Antares: A Flexible Assessment Framework for Exploratory
Immersive Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Joachim Maderer and Christian Gütl
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8 Improving Electrical Engineering Students’ Performance
and Grading in Laboratorial Works Through Preparatory
On-Line Quizzes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
P. C. Oliveira, O. Constante, M. Alves, and F. Pereira
9 Actively Involving Students by Formative eAssessment: Students
Generate and Comment on E-exam Questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
U. Niederländer and E. Katzlinger