Assessment

Intro

The Assessment activity allows teachers to create exams using a variety of questions types.

This activity is primarily an assessment activity to evaluate the students.

However, the Assessment activity in LAMS is not just another assessment engine. It has a set of features that will allow you to test students individually or in teams/groups.

When testing students as teams -after they have submitted their answers, as teacher you are able to share the answers of each team across teams and get each team to defend their answer.

This is a great way for students to learn from each other as they share their knowledge and perspective -putting you in a facilitator role, rather than as content expert.

Why do I want to use Assessment?

1. Ask students questions to assess on a particular topic/subject.

2. Use assessment marks/scores to determine adaptive learning paths for your students.

3. Aside from testing students individually, you can also assess students in teams, then share teams answers and get each team to defend/expose their reasoning.

4. As assessment is integrated with the Question Bank (QB), all your questions will automatically stored in the QB for future use, analytics and item analysis not just for a single exam but across all exams where you have use a question! Oh, and the QB also supports question versioning!

5. All assessments provide you real-time analytics as the students are going through the test. So even before the students finish the exam, you already know where their difficulties and knowledge gaps are.

6. Gives you extensive time management power to manage your exams. You can set relative or absolute time limits and add particular extensions for students and/or teams.

Educational Insight

Assessment is very powerful to assess students. It provides you with real-time analytics and when using appropriately, it can help you foster knowledge sharing and peer-learning.

As you can reuse questions in multiple exams, you can track the complete live cycle of a question!

What can I use Assessment for?

Assessment can be used for any learning activity where you want to evaluate the students' knowledge, understanding or skills.

As you can also assess students in teams, you can foster knowledge sharing and peer-learning within each team and then across teams as well.

Pedagogies that use Assessment: Problem-Based Learning, Think-Pair-Share, Team-Based Learning, Inductive learning, etc.

How does it work?

You (teacher) can create simple or complex assessment exams based on the variety of question types.

Students then are presented with the questions and according to the settings and configuration you have pre-determined. After the students answer the questions, they might be able to defend their answers to others or simply get their score/marks.