Blended assessment

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Untangling strong and weak ties in blended assessment in the corporate sector

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Rationale & backgroundWho am I and why am I doing this?

PhD student

Run e-learning development and teaching at a company

6th International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”

Rationale & backgroundWho am I and why am I doing this?

PhD student

Run e-learning development and teaching at a company

Electronic assessment

6th International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”

Rationale & backgroundWho am I and why am I doing this?

PhD student

Run e-learning development and teaching at a company

Electronic assessment

Foreign Language

HR policy 6th International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”

Problem

How does tracing interactions between the learner, teacher and machine help describe how blended assessment becomes a socio-technical assemblage that is called upon?

How do strong and weak ties support or contradict the performance of blended assessment?

Research questions

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E-assessment

Online

E-Assessment

BlendedEnhanced

What is e-assessment? What is blended assessment?

‘...a method of using information technology for any assessment-related activities’ (Brink & Lautenbach, 2011, p. 503)

‘... this has come to be known as e-assessment, which includes the entire assessment process, from designing assignments to storing the results with the help of ICT’ (Stödberg, 2011, p. 1).

An assessment mode that combines interrelated and mutually dependent face-to-face and Internet-based assessment.

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E-assessmentFrom complexity to simplicity

Our proficiency scale is built on recommendations from the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

A1 A2Satisfied

learner-clientsProspective

learner-clients

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E-assessmentManaged complexity

A1 A2Satisfied

learner-clientsProspective

learner-clients

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Methodology & methods

ANT-informed ethnography (Fenwick and Richards 2011)

‘applied Conversation Analysis’ (ten Have, 2007)

Sociomaterial multidimensional network framework Contractor, Monge and Leonardi (2011)

Ontological Politics (Mol, 1999)

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FindingsPerforming blended assessment: the assessment dyads

6th International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”

FindingsPerforming blended assessment: the assessment dyads

6th International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”

FindingsPerforming blended assessment: the assessment dyads

6th International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”

FindingsPerforming blended assessment: the assessment dyads

6th International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”

FindingsPerforming blended assessment: the assessment dyads

6th International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”

FindingsPerforming blended assessment: the assessment dyads

6th International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”

FindingsPerforming blended assessment: the assessment dyads

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FindingsPerforming blended assessment as a teacher and machine

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FindingsPerforming blended assessment as a teacher and machine

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FindingsPerforming blended assessment as a teacher and a learner

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FindingsPerforming blended assessment as a teacher and machine

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FindingsPerforming blended assessment as a teacher and machine

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FindingsPerforming blended assessment as a teacher and machine

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FindingsPerforming blended assessment as a learner and machine

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Future directions

More ethnographic understanding

A framework for assessment that moves between ‘connoisseurship’ and ‘psychometric’ testing cultures

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