Lisa LaVigna, Executive Director of Outreach

Matching Assessments to Open Educational Resources

Open “Free” Educational Resources

Lecture notes Videos of classroom lectures Lessons designed for OER Courses Discussion groups

Types of OER

Khan Academy

Physics lecture

Open University

OpenStudy

Funding pays for Compensation for professors/course designers Costs of producing materials Software design and maintenance Monitoring of student communications

Funding efficiency

OER can reach large numbers of people worldwide

OER = Free education?

Learning Certificates

But…OER by itself does not typically award formal

educational credit

Why not?

What is OER’s value?

Academic credit

What is credit?A course credit (credit hour) is a unit that

gives weighting to the value, level or time requirements of an academic course taken at an educational institution.

To provide that assurance, both the someone and the something must be verified

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OER and assessment

“What you know is more important than how or where you learned it.”

Credit should be based on knowledge, not attendance

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Validity

Interpretation and use of results/credit is supported by (good) arguments

Part of making the argument is identifying threats to validity and countering the threats

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Aspects of validity for OER assessments

Identity verification

Assessment quality

Appropriateness of knowledge tested for a particular degree program

Scalability

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Identity Verification

Make sure the people claiming the knowledge are:

WHO they say they are DOING their own work

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Assessment quality

A good assessment… Measures knowledge of the subject Does not measure irrelevant characteristics Gives a person the same score regardless of

which form is taken Gives people of the same ability the same

score

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Appropriateness of content

Match of assessment to OERHow close are the assessment specifications to

the learning objectives of the OER material?

Match of assessment to credit-granting bodyHow close are the assessment specifications/

learning objectives to what is taught at the institution where credit is sought?

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Scalability - Generalizability

Course final exams and homework

Third-party assessments designed for a specific course

Competency assessments

Less generalizable

More generalizable

Scalability – Large groups

Individual assessments Portfolios Research papers Oral examinations

Human-scored group assessments Short answer questions Essay questions

Machine-scored assessments Multiple-choice exams Machine-scored constructed response

exams

Less scalable

More scalable

Efficient assessment

Machine-scored competency exams can handle large numbers of examinees and be used for multiple OER sources

A model for low-cost education

OER University

Sample ASB Degree Template

(ETC ASB example)

Questions