Engaging with assessment: Increasing student engagement through continuous assessment

Online Student Engagement as Formative Assessment

While in traditional learning scenarios, formative assessment relies solely on the judgment of teachers, technology enhanced learning provides means for automatically identifying room for effective learning improvement. Given a digital learning environment and the support of learning analytics, it is possible to infer input for formative assessments. Teachers might be assisted by systems to ada...

Student Engagement and Student Self-assessment: the REAL Framework

This article proposes that there are strong theoretical and practical connections between student engagement and student self-assessment. The idea is that deeper levels of student self-assessment are critical aspects of pedagogical processes aiming to encourage students to be substantively engaged in their classroom learning experiences. This argument was developed in the Fair Go Project, actio...

Increasing student engagement in learning

Three decades after the first computer was introduced into school classrooms, educational technology remains surprisingly controversial. This paper provides a forum for informed use of technology in the context of emergent research from the learning sciences. Today's schools cite a myriad of purposes for technology in schools, including improved teaching, leadership, and decision making, as wel...

Creating Engaging Student to Student Engagement in an Online Class

Online classrooms present a challenge in offering student to student engagement. The traditional mean for this has been discussion threads, however levels of participation and quality of responses are frequent issues. Another issue, is the amount of time on the part of the instructor to review and grade discussion threads. This paper describes and simple and innovative way to use quizzes as pee...

Re-engaging with engagement