A randomised control study about the effects of different assessment registration encouragements

Herodotou, Christothea; Heiser, Sarah and Rienties, Bart (2016). A randomised control study about the effects of different assessment registration encouragements. In: 8th Biennial conference of EARLI Sig 1: Assessment & Evaluation, 24-26 August 2016, Munich, Germany.

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Abstract

Despite their potential to robustly evaluate the effects of educational interventions, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) in education, particularly in assessment and evaluation in blended or distance learning studies, are scarce. This proposal reports the implementation of a RCT to evaluate the effectiveness of a short-scale intervention (i.e., motivational encouragement) which aimed to improve students' attendance of final exam, completion and pass rates in four online language courses. Results revealed that the specific intervention was not adequate to improve students' performance and attendance. More studies are needed to identify the types of interventions that would elicit positive learning outcomes. To assist practitioners with the implementation of RCTs in education, a learning analytics framework (Analytics4Action Evaluation Framework) is described.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright Holders:	2016 The Authors
Academic Unit/School:	Learning Teaching and Innovation (LTI) > Institute of Educational Technology (IET) Learning Teaching and Innovation (LTI) Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL) Language & Literacies
Related URLs:	http://www.earli-sig1-conference.org/(Other)
Item ID:	47266
Depositing User:	Christothea Herodotou
Date Deposited:	26 Sep 2016 08:16
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2017 19:55
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/47266
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