LESSON 17: ASSESSMENT IN A CONTRUCTIVIST, TECHNOLOGY-SUPPORTED LEARNING

    LESSON 17: 

ASSESSMENT IN A CONTRUCTIVIST, 

TECHNOLOGY-SUPPORTED LEARNING

Complex learning cannot be assessed or evaluated using any single measure. We must examine both the processes and products of students learning.

Does memorization really helps the students gain knowledge during examination? I think it is not necessary to memorize the lessons, all the students should have to do is understand the meaning or the thought of the lesson and it’s the part of the student to explain what he/she had understood. It is useless for the students’ part to just memorize the lesson without even understanding them.

The traditional paper-and-pencil tests are not adequate to assess learning in a constructivist technology-supported learning. The authentic forms of assessment such as performance and product assessment are more reliable and adequate to measure students’ communication, analytical, integrative, evaluative and collaborative skills.

 In a technology-supported learning environment, the students are not only users of technology product, they themselves are authors of technology product. Scoring rubrics are therefore, a must in assessment.