Testing Security
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When used for assessment purposes, online testing is more commonly used for low to medium stakes assessments. When testing online for medium or higher stakes assessments, several factors should be considered to help ensure valid test scores and a thorough understanding of course concepts.
Always important in testing, the development of effective test questions is critical in the creation of an effective online assessment. Creating questions that require the application of knowledge are better gauges of a student’s understanding than questions that can be answered verbatim from a textbook. This becomes very important when distributing tests in the open-book, take-home format that is commonly used when conducting tests online.
Open-ended and essay type questions may also be written to require the student to apply their understanding in a unique manner. Using a few of these question types when creating a test can increase the quality of the assessment and discourage unwanted student collaboration while only somewhat increasing the grading load.
Higher stakes assessments may best be distributed in a proctored environment such as a lab, instead of being distributed in an open-book, take-home format, while high stakes assessments at a distance may be individually proctored at a local library, school, university, or in the work place. In addition to these testing approaches, ANGEL provides several quiz settings, outlined below, which can be used to increase the effectiveness of assessment testing.
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