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Impacts of a Whole Person eAssessment on Students’ Learning Performance and Faculty Development

Authors:
Koichi Nakajima

Keywords: eTeaching; eAssessment; faculty development; learning styles

Abstract:
We have developed an open education community based on our homegrown instructor-centric eTeaching system called TIES since 1996. Its mission is to share educational content and pedagogical knowledge via the interuniversity collaboration. We currently host 83 universities in Japan and abroad with about 1,300 instructors and 70,000 students as users, and have more than 39,000 sharable materials. TIES has an eAssessment system that assists an instructor to evaluate learning outcomes and levels of attainment of her students from a wide spectrum of their academic as well as non-academic efforts and performance. The purpose of the system is to encourage students to self-review their intellectual growth, reflect on their personal attributes, and understand their strengths and limitations. In this paper we elaborate impacts of this system on students’ learning performance from faculty development perspectives. We also report preliminary results of the new questionnaire that approximates students’ learning preferences, and analyze if such preferences can be correlated with the specific assessment attributes in the TIES eAssessment.

Pages: 154 to 158

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-202-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012