Recording from the Skylight Online Teaching Series (SOTS) session on October 4, 2022.
The Implications of Student Choice of Instructional and Assessment Modalities
Presented by Stephan Koenig (Computer Science, UBCV) and Cinda Heeren (Computer Science, UBCV)
Facilitated by Stephan Koenig and Christine Goedhart, Skylight
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors to adopt a bounty of new technologies, and simultaneously, students became accustomed to flexible access to both online instruction and assessments. How should we integrate all of these new experiences into our teaching going forward? In particular, we want to understand what freedoms we should offer students if we are concerned about equity and about both their learning and academic integrity.
With these goals in mind, we (loosely) want to know: 1) Do students learn as well online as they do in person? 2) How should we administer assessments?
In Fall 2021, we sought to answer these questions in CPSC221, a large, second-year core computing course. Students enrolled in sections that offered instruction either exclusively online or in person. Regardless of the form of instruction, students rotated through three different modes of assessment provided by an online assessment platform: using their personal device either 1) in the classroom, or 2) at home, or 3) a provided computer in a computer-based testing facility. This discussion is a report-back on the implications of the data we collected.