Assignment - Week 5
Student: Ekaterina Nosova
EIDT – 6511 Assessments in Online Environments
Walden University
Instructor: Dr. Celeste Fenton
On the following pages, the objectives, drafts of each assessment item, and
corresponding rationale statements are presented. There is a number of assessment
items that are scored according to a score rubric mentioned below.
Designing Performance Assessments
Objectives represent the measureable achievement a learner will be able to
demonstrate as a result of this online performance assessment. The objective for
this assessment includes clarifying that learners understand some key and target
elements of driving. This knowledge or understanding will involve the measure of
learners’ procedural knowledge, attitudes, and skills in the following areas:
1. Driving a car;
2. Perform a three point turn with 100% accuracy;
3. Illustrate proper use of turn signals that meets the legal limits;
4. Execute a parallel parking maneuver that meets the legal limits.
Performance Assessment Items
Objective: Driving a car
Teaching defensive driving tips for driving in different weather
The assessment evaluates the driver's ability to follow defensive driving
procedures when faced with a vehicle spinning out of control, driving on icy road
or in snow, or in other types of bad weather related incidents.
Students are expected to use essential techniques that are necessary in different
kinds of weather. Here is a procedural objective and a problem solving.
Objective: Perform a three point turn with 100% accuracy
The assessment evaluates how to properly master a three point turn, when there is
no room for a U-turn. Drivers demonstrate their capability to a three point turn
(procedural) without incident or making an illegal U-turn.
Objective: Illustrate proper use of turn signals that meets the legal limits
Demonstrate how to use vehicle turn signals properly and manual turn signals to
meet legal standards for driver license
Drivers can demonstrate using turn signaling while driving, and being able to hand
signal in the event the vehicle signals are not working. This procedure allows
drivers avoid accidents on the road. The assessment evaluates a procedural because
drivers need to be able to meet certain criteria to meet legal standards.
Objective: Execute a parallel parking maneuver that meets the legal limits
Observing drivers maneuver parallel parking to meet legal requirements for a
concrete country, state, region.
Drivers demonstrate their capability for parallel parking that meets legal state
requirements in order to obtain a drivers license in a concrete country, state,
region. The assessment evaluates is procedural because drivers need to be able to
meet certain criteria to meet legal standards.
Scoring Rubric
There are 10 maximum points that drivers can achieve during their driving
procedural test.
Points
9-10 points
8-6 points
Passed/Failed
Criteria
Exceptional
work able to control vehicle under
maneuvering vehicle. Meets extreme weather conditions;
all criteria to obtain drivers able to signal turns manually;
license/Passed
able to signal turns using
vehicle turn signals and
emergency flashers; parallel
parking, required by the
country, region, state
Acceptable
work,
with able to control vehicle under
minimum errors - Meets extreme weather conditions
standard criteria to obtain with
some
instructor's
drivers license/Passed
comments; able to signal turns
manually; able to signal turns
using vehicle turn signals and
emergency flashers; parallel
parking, required by the
country, region, state.
Below standards, does not is not able to control vehicle
meet criteria to obtain drivers under
extreme
weather
license/Failed
conditions; is not able to
signal turns manually; is not
able to signal turns using
vehicle turn signals and
emergency flashers; parallel
parking, is not required by the
country, region, state
5-1 points
Defensive Driving Tips - Online Assessment
Q 1. During heavy rain, when is there a risk of aquaplaning?
A. only when driving with worn-out tires
B. only when the vehicle is heavily loaded
C. above all, if driving at high speed, even with good tyres.
Q2. How soon should a driver prepare to signal a turn left or right when
approaching a green light?
A. When preparing to turn left/right at the light?
B. At least 15 feet away from the light.
C. When the light turns yellow?
D. None of the above
Q3. When parallel parking the driver should first?
A. Put on turn signal
B. Turn on emergency flash signal
C. Make sure sufficient space is available to park car
D. All of the above
Q4. When performing a three point turn, the driver should?
A. With no traffic behind you or coming toward you, turn to the right or left until
you are perpendicular to the street.
B. Put the car in reverse. Back up straight across to the other side of the street as
far as possible.
C. Just make a U-turn and hope for the best.
D. Put the car in drive or, in manual cars, first gear. Check traffic again.
Please Note:
Because of the nature of this assessment and exact the test take only has one
opportunity to select the correct answer. No changes will be acceptable so study
questions carefully. This is a pass or fail test. If failed, the participant can re-take
the assessment in 30 days.
Designing Performance Assessments - Rationale
The distance education was considered to be a one-to-one relationship between an
instructor and a learner who are generally not in the same place at the same time
(Oosterhof A., 2008, p.3).
Performance tasks are hands-on activities that require students to demonstrate
their ability to perform certain actions. According to Oosterhof, Conrad, & Ely
(2008), performance assessment is not new to evaluation and has been around
since 7000 B.C. Unlike written tests, performance assessments have always
involved a direct observation of the behavior of the learner and/or product resulting
from that behavior. This category of assessment covers an extremely wide range of
behaviors, including designing products or experiments, gathering information,
tabulating and analyzing data, interpreting results, and preparing reports or
presentations.
I designed basic performance assessments that could be used to assess drivers'
capabilities in driving. The online quiz is pass or fail, which determines if a driver
is able to perform specific defensive driving techniques (procedures) and/or
maneuvers or not. This online quiz is multiple choice questions with several
options, where only one correct answer is presented. In addition, the questions are
designed to make the test taker think critically to determine the best possible
answer in any of these given situations.
Moreover, the assessment is designed this way that a test taker can get immediate
feedback for the correct or incorrect answers. If learners fail the test they will have
another attempt to take the test in 30 days. As Palloff and Pratt (2007) say that a
numbered form of grading gives students a better understanding of their
assessment score and eases their ability to self-assess.
Reference
1. Oosterhof, A., Conrad, R. M. & Ely, D. (2008) Assessing Learners Online.
Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall
2. Palloff, R., & Pratt, K. (2007). Building online communities: Effective
strategies for the virtual classroom. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
(Palloff, R., & Pratt, K., Promoting Collaborative Learning, Building Online
Communities). Copyright 2007 John Wiley & Sons Inc. Used with
permission from John Wiley & Sons Inc. via the Copyright Clearance
Center.