Innovationscluster E-Assessment - Diversität, Didaktik, Technologien

How can e-assessments be designed to support learners' needs, and how can they be implemented technically?

Optimising examination conditions is a key issue for educational institutions.As part of this, universities are increasingly holding electronic examinations instead of traditional face-to-face ones, a trend that has been further accelerated by the Coronavirus crisis. Consequently, the universities involved in the joint project now administer over 75,000 electronic end-of-semester examinations each semester.

However, electronic assessment formats will not only affect higher education, but also become increasingly relevant in adult education and continuing professional development. E-assessments present educational institutions with a variety of pedagogical, diagnostic and technical challenges. At the same time, they offer the potential to adapt assessment formats to the needs of diverse target groups. The NOVA:ea collaborative project provides scientific support and evaluation for the implementation of learner-centred e-assessments. 

The project puts learner diversity at the heart of the pedagogical and technical design of creative, domain-specific tasks and flexible, on-demand e-assessments. These utilise learning and assessment analytics methods, among other things. Particular attention is paid to promoting acceptance when introducing e-assessments.

Within the project consortium, the DIE works closely with the FernUniversität in Hagen, with which the CATALPA – Center of Advanced Technology AssistedLearning and Predictive Analytics project (formerly the D²L² research focus) is affiliated.