EvalCOMIX3.2: A web service for u-feedback and u-feedforward

Abstract

The EVALfor research group has developed, in the past years, a series of projects based upon the principles of the Learning Oriented Assessment (Carlesset al, 2006) and sustainable assessment (Boud, 2000), co-financed by different Spanish public agencies and the European social Fund. One of the main products of this research is the web service EvalCOMIX (http://evalcomix.uca.es), specifically designed and developed by EVALforto aid teachers and students in implementing participative assessment activities for distance and semi-distance learning environments. EvalCOMIXachieves thisbyusing strategies such as self-assessment, peer-assessment and co-assessment.This workshop provides the necessary information and resources for the participants to use the EvalCOMIX web service. Once completed, participants will have acquiredthe following skills:Design and construction of assessment tools, such as: checklists, ratingscales, semantic differentials and rubrics.Design assessment tools that promote feedback and feedforward.Use of designed tools for teacher assessment processes, self-assessment, peer-assessment and co-assessment.Analyse results from the assessment tasks undertaken.The workshop has been designed as an essentially practical exercise in which participants design and develop their own assessment instruments for use in LMS. To this end, participants will initially be presented with the basic characteristics of the EvalCOMIX web service (design, management, import and export of assessment instruments). The first part will then conclude with a practical exercise in which each participant will develop at least one ratingscale and one simple rubric with EvalCOMIX. After that, a presentation will be given on ways to use the designed assessment instruments, in order to perform teacher assessment, self-assessment, peer-assessment and co-assessment.Finally, participants will be presented with the possibilities EvalCOMIX offers for analysis of results obtained from an assessment process, by means of analysis of the different graphs presented by EvalCOMIX.All the tools offered by EvalCOMIX can be used not only on a personal computer, but also on other more current devices such as smartphonesor tablets. EvalCOMIX thus transcends the limits of e-assessment and brings forward the beginning of ubiquitous assessment(u-assessment).