Incorporating E-Assessment Tools in Teaching for Effective and Authentic Assessment.

Abstract

Throughout most of the 20th century, classroom assessment was considered as mechanism for providing an index of learning, and it followed a predictable pattern: teachers taught, tested the students' knowledge of the material, made judgements about students' achievement based on the testing, and then moved on to the next unit of work. But this conventional assessment technique has some limitations. The teacher gets feedback of his teaching and diagnosis of student learning at the end of semester. To overcome this, many teachers now adapting the formative assessment to get the instant feedback of his teaching as well as student learning. When we have to go for formative assessment by conventional pen and paper method it takes a lot of time and also teacher has to analyse the input's obtained from the student, this may reduce teacher efficiency and increase the chances of faulty output. In this situation the E- assessment tools come as an effective solution for this problem. The present study investigates the use of different e-assessment tools to overcome the conventional assessment problems. The study describes the details of effective incorporation different open source tools like Edmodo, Edpuzzle, Polls everywhere, testmoz and rubistar in teaching. The use of this tools help to enhance the efficiency of teacher, understanding level of students as well as academic results for the concern subject. The case study of Implementation of Edmodo tool for soft skill subject indicates the noticeable improvement in the PO attainment.