Practitioners’ Opinions on Student Assessment Process in Distance Education in the Context of Educational Technologies

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reveal the views of the practitioners regarding the measurement and evaluation sub-system of distance education applications in higher education. 11 faculty members working at Akdeniz University, determined with an easily accessible sampling of purposeful sampling methods, participated in this study in which qualitative research method was used. The research is in case study design, one of the qualitative research designs. Therefore, to collect data, a semi-structured interview form was prepared and an interview technique was used in the study. The data were analyzed by the content analysis technique. All the data obtained in the study were coded. Various themes and sub-themes suitable for these themes were determined by the purpose of the research, percentages and frequencies related to the sub-themes were calculated. When the findings are evaluated in the context of education management and the use of educational technologies, it was observed that the problems encountered in measurement and evaluation system in distance education in higher education are the lack of technological infrastructure, the safety of exams, failure to provide equal opportunities. As a result, opinions about an effective measurement and evaluation system have been put forward by the practitioners.

The operational steps of the evaluation processes: a balance of the literature

“…The generation of the result of the conceptual definition of evaluation is exemplified through the bibliographic survey carried out. It was concluded that, among the most found evaluation equivalence terms, the term "process," mentioned by six authors (Ferreira Neto et al, 2021;Trindade, 2018;Damiola, 2020;Muthmainnah et al,2021;Yörük, 2021;Wildner, 2021), showing that evaluation is a systematic and complete process in itself.…”

“…The literature review showed that process is the most frequent evaluation equivalence term (Ferreira Neto, 2021;Trindade, 2018;Damiola, 2020;Muthmainnah et al, 2021;Yörük, 2021;Wildner, 2021). The process is a sequence of steps, each with its specific way of being executed.…”

“…Among the characteristics of this idea, what most emerged in the literature was value (Santos, 2019;Santos & Rocha, 2018;Trindade, 2018;Damiola, 2020;Yazici & Tasgin, 2021;Biodun, 2021;Boutabssil, 2021;Masa et al al., 2021;Wildner, 2021). Other taxes found and grouped were result (Ferreira Neto, 2021;Ambroise, 2020;Hasibuan et al, 2021;Yörük, 2021), objective (Diniz, 2020;Almeida, 2018;Oliveira et al, 2018;Nweke, 2021), impact (Diniz, 2020;Almeida, 2018;Oliveira et al, 2018), goal (Selly, 2021). When you have a result with a specific end, this is an objective, a goal, and represents an impact.…”

“…The attributes verification (Ferreira Neto, 2021;Oliveira, 2019), investigation (Oliveira, 2019), measurement (Santos & Rocha, 2018), measurement tool (Yörük, 2021), interpretation (Yörük, 2021), orientation (Wildner, 2021), information (Campinhos, 2019;Rodrigues, 2019;Francisco, 2018;Acampa et al, 2021). The evaluation in this context gives the idea of determination concerns the search for information that is aimed in this process, investigate and verify, measure and interpret oriented to Research, Society andDevelopment, v. 11, n. 12, e362111234288, 2022 (CC BY 4.0) | ISSN 2525-3409 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v11i12.34288 determine something.…”

“…They were grouped according to their meanings and the ideas they conveyed. They are: continuous (Ferreira Neto, 2021) and process (Francisco, 2018), which give an idea of continuity; improvement (Ambroise, 2020); change (Ambroise, 2020); improvement (Francisco, 2018), which demonstrate a concept of improvement; object (Eulálio, 2019;Santos & Rocha, 2018); device (Campinhos, 2019); component (Campinhos, 2019); merit (Santos & Rocha, 2018;Trindade, 2018;Honcharenko & Honcharenko, 2021;Boutabssil, 2021); instrument (Hasibuan et al, 2021); element (Masa et al, 2021); actor (Campinhos, 2019;Acampa et al, 2021); technology , which convey an idea of medium, mode; difficulty (Ferreira Neto, 2021); failure (Ferreira Neto, 2021), which connote impediment; systematic (Diniz, 2020;Almeida, 2018;Oliveira et al, 2018;Rodrigues, 2019;Nweke, 2021;Boutabssil, 2021); methodological procedure (Diniz, 2020;Almeida, 2018); technical (Trindade, 2018), which conveys the idea of method; managerial (GOMES, 2019); administrative (Trindade, 2018); political (Trindade, 2018); status (Hasibuan et al, 2021); position (Campinhos, 2019); meaning (Yörük, 2021), which convey the idea of conformation; and valid (Campinhos, 2019); legitimate (Campinhos, 2019); and accountability (Francisco, 2018,) tha...…”