<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article investigates whether two opposite assessment methods, open wiki (online text-and-media collaboration) and closed multiple-choice test, can together assure a balanced addressing of the learner both as an information processor and a social entity. Comparing students' experience and satisfaction with collective knowledge construction in a moderated wiki on the one hand and knowledge testing in an online multiple choice test on the other hand, the research differentiates full-time and part-time students of a blended course. This is presented upon broader data on comparable students' populations who were assessed with open-ended oral exam questions, regular homework tasks and seminar work papers. An updated notion of media ecology conceives knowledge testing and instructional feedback as parts of an informational ecosystem: only a coherent yet internally differentiated learning environment can accurately define significant educational trends and recommendations - such that question assessment methods and signpost the development of education towards sustainability.</p></abstract>

The article investigates whether two opposite assessment methods, open wiki (online text-and-media collaboration) and closed multiple-choice test, can together assure a balanced addressing of the learner both as an information processor and a social entity. Comparing students' experience and satisfaction with collective knowledge construction in a moderated wiki on the one hand and knowledge testing in an online multiple choice test on the other hand, the research differentiates full-time and part-time students of a blended course. This is presented upon broader data on comparable students' populations who were assessed with open-ended oral exam questions, regular homework tasks and seminar work papers. An updated notion of media ecology conceives knowledge testing and instructional feedback as parts of an informational ecosystem: only a coherent yet internally differentiated learning environment can accurately define significant educational trends and recommendations - such that question assessment methods and signpost the development of education towards sustainability.

Open Versus Closed Forms of Knowledge Assessment in a Blended Learning Ecosystem

Institute and Academy of Multimedia, Slovenia

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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The article investigates whether two opposite assessment methods, open wiki (online text-and-media collaboration) and closed multiple-choice test, can together...

Open Versus Closed Forms of Knowledge Assessment in a Blended Learning Ecosystem

Published Online: Jul 12, 2011

Page range: 19 - 28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10099-011-0002-4

Keywords
assessment, wiki, test, blended, media ecology

This content is open access.

Open Versus Closed Forms of Knowledge Assessment in a Blended Learning Ecosystem

Published Online: Jul 12, 2011

Page range: 19 - 28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10099-011-0002-4

Keywordsassessment, wiki, test, blended, media ecology

This content is open access.

Keywords
assessment, wiki, test, blended, media ecology