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Exploring Personal Communication Assessments

What Are They?

This type of assessment can include discussion board questions, oral examinations (via live synchronous tools), dialogue journals, learning logs, etc.

Why Use Them?

One benefit of using personal communication assessments is that they can help you provide opportunities for the three types of interaction that we mentioned in Module 01:

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As assessment tools, personal communication assessments can be effective for measuring student learning at all levels of cognitive skills from Bloom’s taxonomy - remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating, depending on how you set up the assessments.

Best Ways to Use Them?

Generally, personal communication assessments work best as formative measures to see how students are learning and provide feedback as they go. However, you can use personal communication assessments for summative assessments; for instance, you might require students to post their final projects to a discussion forum and critique each other’s work as part of their grade.

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  • Discussion Forums

  • Web Conferencing

  • Blogs/Journals

Example of Personal Communication Assessments

Here is a blog example that an instructor can use as a formative assessment to get students thinking about the goals for the course:

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  • Why you are interested in this topic/issue/question

  • Any questions you’d like to explore

  • How you would approach the exploration of this topic/issue/question

  • How the instructor, this class, and your classmates can help you in the discovering process

Designing Personal Communication Assessments

Performance assessments can include, but are not limited to, the following types of assessments:

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Below, we present information on each of these three areas to help you determine whether they might work well for what you are trying to assess.

Discussion Forums

Although online discussions can vary in style, type, and frequency in use, according to Smith (2002), all effective online discussions share the following characteristics:  

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Web Conferencing

One concern we often hear from new online instructors is the absence of their students’ faces and body language. The asynchronous nature of online learning - meaning that students are accessing the content and participating in learning activities and assessments at varying times - can also take some adjustment.

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Blogs/Journals

A blog, short for “Web log,” is a website where an individual can post his/her thoughts, with dated entries that appear with the most recent post first. The tone is informal, much like an online journal. Readers of the blog can make comments on the post, and the original author may write replies to those comments.

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