Online assessment tools can help grade and evaluate students' work on different assignments, giving teachers almost immediate feedback. Teachers no longer need to wait and mark all student work before misconceptions or misunderstandings can be cleared. With Web 2.0 assessment tools, teachers can decide immediately what to teach next and how to differentiate instruction while also tracking the student's progress, growth, and mastery over a topic.

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Online assessment tools can engage and change students' approaches to learning (Kirkwood and Price, 2008, p. 5). Traditional assessments can easily be transferred online and created with web 2.0 tools.  We encourage teachers to start by doing this and to get familiar with a few web tools.  The real potential of web 2.0 tools lie in the ability to evaluate 21st century skills.  Skills such as creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, communication and digital literacy can easily be monitored, reviewed and graded with web 2.0 applications.

 

To this end, we invite you to follow some of the links below to learn new ideas, explore different content, seek out rubrics and start evaluating 21st century skills using web 2.0 technologies.