Assessment Issues
Many different types of assessment were needed in the CLASS™ language
courses (speaking, listening, writing, etc.). This caused some complicated
problems for the creation of exams. Computer-graded portions of the
assessment required different software than the notebook, which was
the tool used for the writing and teacher-graded questions. Audio and
video proved to be extremely difficult and time-consuming to include
in the assessments, especially in the notebook, which is stored on
a different server than the rest of the course. Also, the number of
video/audio files can slow the loading of the page, and this is even
more pronounced in the ‘Notebook’.
Assessments that include recording and sending capabilities were another
problem. CLASS™ language course assessments were in two parts.
One part contained the computer-graded (objective) portion of the test
plus the sound files and/or video for the listening questions. The
other portion contained the speaking and writing (teacher graded) parts
of the test. The directions were helpful for explaining this rather
confusing aspect of the course!
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