How to assess students during E-Learning?

Student assessment is a good progress indicator and with E-learning a prevalent medium, teachers need to know and check the process of assessment. It is an essential part of effective teaching too in an online learning atmosphere. Assessment evaluates and improves learning by challenging students to look back on what is learned; it also helps to apply knowledge to answer and solve problems.Now that online learning is a standard learning method, it is important to know the evaluation approaches. Different approaches are designed to assess children online; the ultimate goal is to see where the child stands from an academic point of view and how many lessons are retained.
The two major approaches of assessment include formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment judges strengths and weaknesses. For every lesson, the feedback received helps to improve the teaching process. Whereas in the summative assessment, the approach is to test the retention after the lessons are taught and improvements are made. this is in a way a test of the instruction material
Let’s see the top 5 ways to assess a child during E-learning:
1. Online Quizzes
Quizzing is the simplest form of assessment. This determines the engagement of the child. Multiple choice and gap-filling are the easiest forms. Quizzes can be designed time-based. With the online facility, the set of questions can be made unique. Overall, it is easy to create and analyse the result. Further, with unique question sets, cheating is prevented
2. Open-Ended Questions
Essay writing or open-ended questions are good assessors and a good opportunity for students to organise their thoughts and opinions. The students are encouraged to create a comprehensive answer and test what is learned. A child’s critical thinking is also checked through open-ended questions.
3. Online Polls
Polls are easy-to-get answers or feedback about students' learning experiences. Students are asked to give opinions about the lessons or courses, their interests and dislikes. Digital platforms provide easy methods to write questions in the form.
4. Dialogue Simulations
A session of real-life conversations is a great way to improve communication skills. Students learn conversations with peers, customers and colleagues. Learners are challenged in real-time situations such as concept presentation, application of a theory, selling a product, or assigning or managing a task. This way, they learn to prepare for an interview that they might face in the near future. The way the students handle the conversation, prepares them to reflect on their problem-solving skills.
5. Presentations
Students themselves creating and presenting the concepts or explaining topics is a good way to learn a topic and make others learn the same. Students presenting explain the whole class, and receive feedback from their peers and the teachers. Web conferencing tools provide great facilities for this.
6. Forum post Discussions
Forum post assessments include sharing everyone's opinions to understand, favour or argue the points of the classmates. Discussion topics for students can be created along with guidelines to answer. This way, the level of understanding and participation can be checked.
Assessment is always required to check how far the path has been covered and how good the journey has been. Just as traditional schooling, e-learning has some great methods to assess students and rate their performance and growth. To keep the child's growth in check and to help in their overall development, assessment during E-learning is very important.