Nowadays, the concepts e-Learning and e-Assessment are widely used around the world. This shows the increasing importance of technology in learning and assessment activities. Its potential cannot be determined yet. In addition, there has been a great progress of the learning assessment activities in Higher Education contexts. This whole situation leads us to new ways of assessing, learning, and teaching.
On the one hand, this book offers the theoretical basis. And on the other hand, it explains a wide range of practical resources that will enable both professors and students to successfully deal with the challenge of e-Assessment, while easing e-Learning. The reader will find new highlights and perspectives to turn assessment into strategic learning in Higher Education.

CONTENTS EXTRACT

1. Heading e-Assessment. Assessment milestones and paradigms: from traditional assessment to authentic assessment.
2. Description of e-Assessment oriented toward e-Learning. Purpose, activities, results, context and participants.
3. Assessment procedures. Competences certification. Feedback and participation. Classification system.
4. Aims, tasks, criteria, and resources for assessment. Definition and classification.
5. Techniques. Observation, survey, and product and document analysis.
6. Assessment resources. Control list, rubric, semantic differential. Mixed instruments.
7. Apps and resources for e-Assessment. Rubistar, The Rubric Builder, Moodle-EvalCOMIX.

Gregorio Rodríguez Gómez teaches Research Methods in Education at Universidad de Cádiz. His research activity is focusd in learning assessment programs.

María Soledad Ibarra Sáiz teaches Educational Diagnosis at Universidad de Cádiz. She manages the research group EVALfor, focused on assessment issues. Both have collaborated with universities from all around the world, and have coordinated national and international research and innovation projects in Higher Education.