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Assessing Learning in Digital Environments

November 10, 2008

Digital learning environments emphasize learning in action. In such environments, assessments need to focus on performance in context, rather than on tests of abstracted and isolated skills and knowledge. Digital environments also provide the potential to assess performance in context, because digital tools make it possible to record rich streams of data about learning in progress. But what assessment methods will use this data to measure mastery of complex problem solving? David Williamson Shaffer and colleagues believe one way to address this challenge is through evidence-centered design: a framework for developing assessments by systematically linking models of understanding, observable actions, and evaluation rubrics to provide evidence of learning. More information is available here.