Guidelines for Online Assessment for Educators

these guidelines aim to spark discussions and help teachers/educators plan for integrating online assessment into their teaching and learning

These guidelines should:
• expand educators’ theoretical grounding of assessment;
• shift educators’ core beliefs that assessment should measure the extent to which learners can remember and reproduce knowledge;
• help educators to set authentic assessment tasks that yield products with value in real life;
• develop an understanding of how the affordances of online tools can maximise learning;
• help educators critically examine the role of online assessment in teaching and learning;
• provide examples of different strategies and tools that can be used for online assessment;
and
• empower teachers and educators to make informed decisions on online assessment.

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