Tips on How to Create Effective eLearning Assessments

The role of assessments is very significant in eLearning. It is through assessments that the trainer gets many accurate insights such as:

Identifying the learning levels of the learner
Tracking the topics where the learner needs more support
Recognizing the need to improve a topic in terms of pedagogy or making it more interactive or adding more information to the topic, etc.

Unfortunately, in the entire eLearning course development, creating assessment has been brought down to a less important task, and the exercise is made as a casual, routine task of picking up some random questions. It is ideal to maintain a holistic approach in designing assessment questions in eLearning solutions.

In this blog, we will discuss some tips to create an effective eLearning assessment:

Assess the learner at every level: Assessment questions are generally seen only at the end of the course. But, the ideal scenario should be to include assessment questions at every possible level throughout the course, as explained below:
- Pre-module assessment questions: It is a good approach to test the knowledge of the learners before they take the course. The learners also certainly find it interesting as they can test their current knowledge before they start the course. This exercise serves as a motivation for them to go ahead with the course.
- Formative assessment questions: The learner spends considerable time over each topic, which may contain sub-topics as well. So, it is a good practice to test the learners at the end of each topic. The good part of formative assessment is that the learners get immediate feedback for their answers with detailed explanations. Such a practice solidifies their understanding of the topic and encourages them to move on to the next one.
- Summative assessment questions: These are the assessment questions that come at the end of the course to judge the overall understanding of the learner. We need to ensure that the questions should not be repeated from the per-module or formative assessment bunch.
Balance the level of difficulty: In all the three levels of assessment questions discussed above, ensure that the level of difficulty needs to be balanced – it should be medium to tough – in each set of questions. In fact, for any course, the learners come from various levels of understanding and background knowledge. So, it is ideal that a course should be able to handle all levels of learners in a progressive manner and ensure that they learn well ultimately.
Blend all types of questions: Creating assessment questions requires considerable effort, involving many suitable types of questions for the content taught in the course. Some of the prominent types of elearning assessment questions are:
*True/False
*Fill in the blanks (Text entry/Dropdown)
*Multiple choice questions (Single/Multiple select)
*Matching (Drag and Match/Drag and Drop)
*Sequence Arrangement
*Hotspots

Tips on How to Create Effective eLearning Assessments

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