Assessment in online learning environments
Assessing online: challenges and opportunities
Learn more about multimodal assessment
As humans, we can communicate through many different languages. We can use images, sounds, words, signs, colors… and combinations of those. Multimodal assessment is the application of this principle into assessment. If we want to see what students have learned, we can give them different ways to communicate that.
You can create multimodal assessments that contain video, images, or animations, as well as match & ordering activities, to add interactivity to your classes. Besides being exciting, multimodal assessments are also very effective in boosting knowledge retention as learners have to recall information and link it to an image. By creating this connection, they will establish the information in their minds more firmly.
When you use multimodal assessment, keep these 5 things in mind:
Reflection activity:
Try putting multimodal assessment to practice next time you assess. Once you do it, reflect on how it was.
- What did you make multimodal?
- What worked? Why?
- What could you improve? How
- How did you feel?
- How did your students feel?