This article explores the self-determined motivation of a first-year students' group in the Ben M'sik Faculty of Science as part of formative assessment in the form of quizzes using the Moodle platform. This evaluation deals particularly with the case of the "Language and Terminology" course. We used Deci and Ryan's (1985, 1991, 2000) [1, 2, 3] Self-Determination Theory (SDT) to better assess motivation in our target audience in this ICT-based learning environment. The choice of a quantitative research methodology resulted in the administration of a questionnaire at the end of Semester 1 and 2, the latter is based on the motivation scale in education [4, 5]. The results show that the use of ICT-based formative assessment in university pedagogy appears to energize the self-determined motivation among learners.

Digital technology contributes to the development of new teaching practices and a new assessment culture [1,2,3]. Various studies [4,5] show that digital technology facilitates the formative assessment process, an assessment mode that favors the learner’s commitment and encourages the learner to adopt an efficient learning method [6]. All the more, the media coverage of this type of assessment generates a large number of indicators enabling to analyze the behavioral commitment of students in their learning process. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of formative E-assessment on the students’ behavioral commitment based on the digital traces of the students’ work, this traceability is considered a very important source permitting to find out about the students’ behavioral commitment. The assessment was achieved via the interactive Moodle platform, it was tested on a group of students from the Faculty of Sciences Ben M’sik in Casablanca, Morocco. The results of the experiment carried out for a period of two years (2015-2016 and 2017-2018) revealed that the majority of the students are committed to take the assessment test. We observed a real implication of the latter, where the action traces of the students in terms of participation and contribution could be collected and analyzed by the teacher for feedback purposes.

Students' assassment of the quality of teaching and educationis a valuable tool through which lecturers can find out what the participants think of their educational task. This is a kind of assessment which is embeded right in the centre of the pedagogical act and which brings together the principal agents pertaining to the university teaching system (students, lecturers, and the staff in charge). However, this form of assessment is disputed as it encounters significant obstacles, namely difficulties in terms of the management of this assessment as well as in terms of reliability and validity of its measuring tools. This paper aims at providing the necessary steps for an elaboration and a foundation of an online measure of evaluating teaching and education.Such a computerised evaluation is to be administeredby students who are studying at the Faculty of Science, Ben M'Sik -Casablanca, Morocco. To begin with, in this online tool of evaluatin we shall describe the stages of this elaboration, includingcertain chosen criteria. Secondly, we will show the way in which the functionalities and possibilities of an online tool of assessment can effectively be handledby students within an institute of Higher Education. In concludion,we end this study by providing a factor analysis of this computerised instrument: this is to be carried out through the most important measures, namely, validity and authenticity.

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