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Student perspectives of assessment strategies in online courses

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Engaging professional adults in an online environment is a common challenge for online instructors.  Often the temptation or commonly used approach is to mirror face-to-face strategies and practices.  One premise of this study is that all strategies used in an online environment are assessment strategies, and as such should be considered for their value in measuring student experiences. This research study investigated student responses within a principal preparation course to the use of twelve assessment strategies that included work samples, “Twitter” summaries, audio recordings, traditional papers, screencast/videos using “YouTube”, quizzes, and interviews.


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