Mobile Devices: Assessment, Reporting and Recording Learning

Mobile Devices: Assessment, Presenting and Recording Learning

Assessment has cropped up regularly as a key issue influencing the use of mobile devices for learning. This workshop focused on ways in which mobile devices are used assessing learning, and in particular on m-portfolios.

Whistlestop tour

Jocelyn presented a range of current projects on assessment in mobile learning.

M-portfolios: mobile phones and assessment

Elizabeth Hartnell-Young. Guest speaker from the Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham

Elizabeth  is concerned with how we value and assess the products that students create, and other emerging issues impacting on curriculum. She has conducted research using mobile phones and Nokia's Lifeblog software, and recently completed research for Becta on eportfolios and their impact on learning. It is clear that mobile devices provide ways of creating digital products and capturing evidence of learning that can be stored in eportfolio systems. But how are these products and eportfolios to be valued and assessed, both formatively and summatively? Using student-created products as stimulus, Elizabeth led a discussion on this complex area.

Other software used for assessment with mobile devices

Dewi Lloyd from Steljes  presented a range of software products that are becoming killer applications for promoting the use of mobile devices in assessing learning in schools.

Rainbow group discussions:-

Orange: Teacher perspective & managing assessment through mobile devices in the classroom/lecture hall

Green: Issues underpinning assessment with mobile devices

Blue: Collaboration and peer assessment with mobile devices