Assessment and Analysis Through CGScholar

Abstract

Assessment in this day and age is not just limited to the paper-pen or digital screens tests in the classroom, comprised of questions that primarily check memory retention as a means to evaluate the knowledge and skills acquired from the provided instructional materials. Instead, it goes past the notion of simple traditional assessment measures by explicitly prompting learners to think in self-regulating and metacognitive or disciplinary terms at all points during their learning using multidirectional learner-centered assessments. This chapter makes the case for one platform (CGScholar) that employs such multidirectional assessments as a means to facilitate a healthy ecosystem of co-learning and crowdsourcing knowledge based on Bloom's learning for mastery ideology proactively capitalizing on ​​avenues of educational data mining, learning analytics, and data visualization while addressing some of the concerns permeated by the long use of traditional assessment as part of our education system.