Publisher's Synopsis
Assessing Online Learning offers an assortment of tools and strategies for evaluating learning and instructional design in online classrooms. Conceptual and pragmatic, this book addresses the salient issues of assessment and offers a variety of assessment tools and strategies for online classrooms and programs, such as self–assessment tools for students to evaluate their progress toward their final products, instruments in which teams can evaluate their progress and contributions, and specific tools and strategies for assessing students′ critical thinking and writing skills in electronic discussion boards and in similar reflective writing environments. With its multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach, this book will be of interest to faculty, administrators, scholars, and researchers in higher education, and to anyone interested in the particular needs and challenges of assessment in online instruction and its integral role in learning.
