How Novice Online Instructors Learn Assessments Strategies: A Conceptual Model

• In Event: Assessment in Online Learning Environments

Abstract

As higher education pivoted to Emergency Remote Teaching in spring 2020, instructors were responsible for transitioning and transforming their face-to-face courses to the online modality. While many instructors relied on university-provided resources for how to transition their class communications and instruction, a gap remained on how to transform face-to-face assessments of learning online. Our roundtable session will address this gap by presenting findings from our in-progress, longitudinal study of seven university instructors who pivoted their face-to-face courses online and the process by which they learned to assess student learning online in a valid and reliable manner. We will pose a conceptual model for this process that identifies the resources, networks, and climate factors that supported instructors in designing assessments.

Authors

• Virginia Byrne, Morgan State University

• Erin K Hogan, University of Texas at Austin

• Neil Dhingra, University of Maryland

• Monica Anthony, University of Maryland - College Park

• Colleen Gannon, Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore