Assessment - educators using a professional wiki

New ways of assessing student progress have been found for digital learning environments.  The concept of sustainable and formative digital assessment facilitates the monitoring of student progress, feedback, assists the teacher in adapting and diversifying teaching strategies, and favors assessment modalities participated by students. It empowers learners to take responsibility for their own development.

The following is a draft for implementing the found strategies into my work practice:

• Target group: Educators of daycare facilities for children of all abilities, aged 3 months - 14 years, appr. 2600 registered users, most of them within digital competency level A1 to A2 

• Long-term goal: To broaden the target group to all employees in the 1450 primary daycare facilities in Munich (appr. 20000 persons) and deepen their knowledge using the internal professional wiki, based on open source BlueSpice Media Wiki).

• Objectives assessed: Meaningful and adequate use of the internal Wiki (WikiKita) with a sequel of tasks

• Competencies set: Writing and commenting on an article in WikiKita, using a variety of different options and tools

• Standards/ Rating criteria: 
• As per fundamental vital values of the wiki published 
• A set of possible additional, more detailed criteria is available online, developed based on the framework for the assessment of competencies in digital assessment (Pereira et al., 2015)
  
• Peer and self-evaluated

• Support in case of questions or problems:
• A personal support team = WikiKita Team, being a colleague and me, is available by phone, email, Webex, and chat via Wilma intranet
• Instructional videos, available on the help site 
• Wiki articles and resources about the basics of how to use a wiki.

• Way of assessing the activity:
• Low-threshold peer assessment table of criteria, with the possibility of giving feedback after each achieved goal (published site/ article/ addition)
• Self-assessment as per the chosen main criteria. 
• Possible gamification with Google Classrooms - Classcraft App, like going on a quest and/ or rewards/ badges for achievements (= publications, comments, feedback). 
• No marks are given by the peers, but constructive feedback in the comments & discussion section.