EVALUATION OF E-ASSESSMENT: THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE
EVALUATION OF E-ASSESSMENT: THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: Learning analytics is a new evolving research area that deals with data generated during students’ interactions with an online learning environment. The collected and analysed information chunks regarding their behaviour, performance and preferences could be used for improvement and optimization of teaching, learning and assessment. The aim of the current research is to present the developed model for evaluation the quality of online assessment activities in the form of quizzes considering the students’ point of view that is published and discussed in scientific papers and the position of students from the Technical University of Sofia, College of Energy and Electronics (CEE). The evaluation of e-assessment tasks is still a challenging issue pointing out a wide variety of research problems similar to: a connection between content, structure and presentation of learning and assessment objects, the influence of learning styles on assessment objects, the type of provided feedback and its relevance to the received knowledge. Crossing the scientific repositories just several research papers were found on similar topics that is an indication for the necessity of further exploration and elaboration. The assessment process as a very important part of the educational activities has to be designed correctly and precisely. The quizzes have to be developed, complemented and improved in order to be clearer, to give the students the possibility to show their knowledge to the fullest. When designing the online quizzes, it is necessary to take into account the fact that during their performance, the students cannot ask specific questions, nor get answers to them. Online quizzes are a challenge not only for the students – how to perform well, but also for the teachers – how and in what form to create assessment activities that will enable learners to show their knowledge without unnecessary obstacles and difficulties.

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