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Assessment of Students

Quizzing and Testing

Grading Homework and Quizzing on the Web - What to look for when selecting online quizzing packages.
Quizzing, Testing, and Homework on the Internet - Performing assessments online

Taxonomies applied to online learning

Sample Test Questions - Six Levels of Learning - Using Bloom's levels of abstraction to evaluate students' abilities
Assessing Learning Objectives - A look at how to assess learning objectives and overview of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Rubrics

Rubrics - Understanding rubrics as well as some examples
Rubrics - Virgil Varvel discusses the principles of rubrics including creation, usage, and evaluation of rubrics.
Evaluating Participation - Dale Maeder

Rubistar - a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.

Quality Matters - The rubric is not free, but much of their discussion is.

Rubric for Online Instruction - California State University, Chico answers the question "What does a high quality online course look like?" Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States Licensed.

Academic Honesty issues for online teaching and learning

Academic Honesty in Online Education , By Virgil Varvel
Strategies to Minimize Cheating Online - Strategies to minimize a student's tempatation to cheat.
Curbing Academic Dishonesty in Online Courses , By Mike McNett - How can you be sure that the person taking the test is actually your student? And that they are acting alone, without the book?

Course and Program Evaluation

What is an exemplary online course or program?

Qualities of Exemplary Online Courses , Michael Lindeman & Virgil Varvel

Evaluation of Online Courses

Evaluation of Online Courses Discussion Questions

Evaluation of Online Resources

How can I make sure that I have quality, credible, effective resources?

Applying Evaluative Tests to Sources - Questions to ask when evaluating the validity of a source found on the Web
Applying Evaluative Tests for Credibility - Questions to ask when evaluating the credibility of a source found on the Web
Applying Evaluative Tests for Content - Questions to ask when evaluating the content of a source found on the Web
Applying Evaluative Tests for Quality Control - Questions to ask when evaluating the quality of a source found on the Web
Judging Sources for Courses - Evaluative rubrics for assessing the trustworthiness of Websites for information

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