The International TEA Conference 2018 focused on the following key themes:
E-Assessment Quality
- E-Assessment and security
- Assessment literacy
- Perceptions on e-Assessment
- Policy frameworks for assessment
- Assessment in the context of MOOCs and Open Educational Resources
- Embedded assessment
- Large-scale e-assessment
- E-Assessment in interdisciplinary contexts
- New domains for assessment
- Open badges for assessment
Technologies for assessment
- Assessment platforms (architectures, open sources initiatives etc.)
- Question bank/item repositories
- Authoring tools for assessment for teachers and learners
- Tools for automatic scoring (e.g., free text entry)
- Automation of item and test generation
- Automated feedback in the context of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)
- Assessment in the context of recommender systems or personalized virtual learning environments
- Assessing diagrams (e.g., free-hand, generated by tools such as Geogebra)
- Reporting: ePortfolios, Webfolios, open learner models, visualization of results
- Blogs and Wikis for assessment
- Mobile assessment
- Authentic assessment (in a real-world challenge context)
- Assessment in simulation environments and virtual worlds, virtual laboratories
- Seamless assessment (anytime, everywhere, cross-device)
- Assessment in serious games and virtual worlds
- Cloud assessment
- Automated Feedback
- TEA for key competences
- Assessment in Blended Learning
Methodologies
- Construct definition and rubrics
- Task modeling
- Quality and security issues when using technologies
- Location-based/context-aware educational feedback and feed forward
- Collaborative assessment, peer assessment, self-assessment using technologies
- Specific contributions to (high stake) summative, diagnostic and formative assessment
- Adaptive testing and adaptive assessment
- Cross-institutional item construction and item-banks
- Learning analytics
- (Crowd-) authoring of assessment items
> Key themes are directed towards the formal and non-formal educational system, from primary education to higher education and assessment of non-formal learning.