Clinical Educators Faculty Development Module (On-Demand)-Assessment Strategies for Online Learning

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This webinar, led by Dr. Eric Langenau, focused on assessment strategies for online learning, especially in health sciences education. He began by outlining major trends in assessment: a shift toward performance-based evaluation, criterion-referenced grading, combining formative and summative assessment, frequent and multi-source feedback, and greater attention to professionalism. He also highlighted learning science ideas such as active retrieval, spaced repetition, interleaving, and the importance of aligning learning objectives, activities, and assessments.<br /><br />Dr. Langenau then discussed limitations of online assessment, including difficulty evaluating hands-on clinical skills, lab work, practical exams, teamwork, and the challenges of technology, accommodations, proctoring, and learner isolation. He followed with opportunities available online: a wide variety of assessment formats, strong tracking and analytics, remote proctoring, plagiarism detection, and improved accessibility. He emphasized that online formats can also support introverted learners through tools like discussion boards.<br /><br />The talk featured many assessment examples, including essays, blogs, oral presentations, group projects, question banks, certification modules, Aquifer cases, CITI training, Draw It to Know It, WebOSCEs, virtual patients, and online portfolios. He closed with practical advice: use rubrics, give clear instructions, balance formative and summative methods, and be willing to explore and innovate.

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online learning assessment

health sciences education

performance-based evaluation

formative and summative assessment

criterion-referenced grading

learning science

remote proctoring

virtual patients

assessment rubrics