Assessment

Assessment here refers either to "formative evaluation" or "effectiveness evaluation."

Formative evaluation is intended to enhance a product as it is being developed. A primary issue here is the idea of usability - how do users respond to the interface, navigation, and visual design components of the system. In particular, how can those components of the system be modified to streamline the cognitive demands of the interface do not interfere with the educational goals of the system.

Effectiveness evaluation addresses issues such as assessing the system's impact on student learning. These modes of evaluation are closely related but distinct. Below we have included resources and publications related to both. (This may change as the Assessment related portion of the wiki expands. As always, feel free to contribute.)

Assessment Moodle Course

Research Ethics

• The Belmont Report
• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative

Research Methods

• SocialResearchMethods.net
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Selective Bibliography
• Mathematics Education Research: A Guide for the Research Mathematician Curtis McKnight, Andy Magid, and Teri J. Murphy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, and Michelynn McKnight, Norman, OK
• Interactive Learning Systems Evaluation By Thomas C. Reeves, John G. Hedberg

Publications

WeBWorK Specific

• Online Assessments and Interactive Classroom Sessions: A Potent Prescription for Ailing Success Rates in Social Science Calculus, by Helena Dedic, Steven Rosenfield and Ivan Ivanov, of both Vanier College and the Centre for Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) at Concordia University.
• Evaluating student response to WeBWorK, a web-based homework delivery and grading system. Computers and Education. by Roth, V., Ivanchenko, V., & Record, N. (in press)
• WeBWorK: Generating, delivering, and checking math homework via the Internet. by Gage, M., Pizer, A., Roth, V. (2002).