SCORE: An advanced assessment and feedback framework with a universal marking scheme in higher education

Abstract

The technology enhanced learning is believed to be useful in representing the contexts and situations which are harder to explain verbally or bring to the classroom. One of the most important concerns in higher education is to ensure that the learning outcomes are achieved accordingly and learners acquire the desired capability. Most important techniques in supporting learning in higher education sector includes timely and detailed feedback to learners which must include both strengths and weaknesses of learner as well as the future implications of their performance. This paper proposes an online platform called Student Coursework Repository (SCORE) that enables academics to evaluate and provide effective online feedback to students in higher education sector. In this framework, a repository of different feedback mechanisms is made available to academic staff, irrespective of the modules and courses the students are enrolled in. SCORE builds on other literature and research work on feedback management and enables the delivery of other forms of feedback such as audio or video based feedback. SCORE aims to provide a consistent and common tool that can be used in a multidisciplinary environment and is sustainable to support an online and paperless environment.

A collaborative learning feedback framework integrating mobile and web application for hands-on activity in classroom

“…If we can give fast and effective immediate feedback to students, students learning process will be accelerated [3]. Ekaterina et al [5] briefly demonstrated that detailed immediate feedback to the students improves students' performance.…”

“…Han et al [4] emphasize that collecting immediate feedback data from students is important factor to analyze their performance. The current researches focus on combining users' handheld devices and their conventional education systems [3][4][5]. Therefore, we have proposed HACS such that faculties assign an activity, give a score, write comments, and control group members, and students are grouping themselves, decide group number, and input their results of activities.…”

“…Traditional way of feedback is to give students a paper sheet that has comments or advise for each assessment they did. Electronic feedback has advantages for higher education to deliver timeless feedback [3], refer to as immediate feedback here. To achieve immediate feedback assessment, educational learning systems have been moving to the new innovative methods that utilize handheld devices such as smart phones, and Tablet PCs [1].…”

“…Handheld devices have a computational capability, support human friendly graphical user interfaces, and access network resources through wireless networks [5]. Many institutions or education researchers have made an effort to use handheld devices because it makes students easy to access their resources at anytime and anywhere [3]. Many educational researchers have developed feedback processes to support their educational backbone [2][3][4].…”

“…Many institutions or education researchers have made an effort to use handheld devices because it makes students easy to access their resources at anytime and anywhere [3]. Many educational researchers have developed feedback processes to support their educational backbone [2][3][4]. The immediate feedback from faculty is important for collaborative learning activities between faculties and students, and is critical to improve student success rate.…”