Conference Themes

Key themes

Key themes include the following areas and are not limited to Higher Education. Submissions outside these areas that may be of interest to the CAA Conference’s audience are welcomed.

E-Assessment quality

  • E-Assessment and security
  • Assessment literacy
  • Perceptions on e-Assessment
  • Policy frameworks for assessment
  • Assessment in the context of MOOCs and Open Educational Resources
  • Embedded assessment
  • Large-scale e-assessment
  • E-Assessment in interdisciplinary contexts
  • New domains for assessment

Technologies for computer-assisted assessment

  • Assessment platforms (architectures, open sources initiatives etc.)
  • Question bank/item repositories
  • Authoring tools for assessment for teachers and learners
  • Tools for automatic scoring (e.g., free text entry)
  • Automation of item and test generation
  • Automated feedback in the context of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)
  • Assessment in the context of recommender systems or personalized virtual learning environments
  • Assessing diagrams (e.g., free-hand, generated by tools such as Geogebra)
  • Reporting: ePortfolios, Webfolios, open learner models, visualization of results
  • Blogs and Wikis for assessment
  • Mobile assessment
  • Authentic assessment (in a real-world challenge context)
  • Assessment in simulation environments and virtual worlds, virtual laboratories
  • Seamless assessment (anytime, everywhere, cross-device)
  • Assessment in serious games and virtual worlds
  • Cloud assessment
  • Automated Feedback
Methodologies

  • Construct definition and rubrics
  • Task modeling
  • Quality and security issues when using technologies
  • Location-based/context-aware educational feedback and feed forward
  • Collaborative assessment, peer assessment, self-assessment using technologies
  • Specific contributions to (high stake) summative, diagnostic and formative assessment
  • Adaptive testing and adaptive assessment
  • Cross-institutional item construction and item-banks
  • Learning analytics
  • (Crowd-)  authoring of assessment items