Thematic Working Group 5: Formative assessment supported by technology.

The future of assessment faces major challenges including the use of IT to facilitate
\nformative assessment that is important for improving learners’ development, motivation
\nand engagement in learning. In many countries, in recent years, a renewed focus on
\nassessments to support learning has been pushing against the burgeoning of testing for
\naccountability, which in some countries, renders effective formative assessment
\npractices almost impossible. Moreover, a systematic review by Harlen and Deakin Crick
\n(2002) revealed that a strong focus on summative assessment for accountability can
\nreduce motivation and disengage many learners. At the same time use of IT‐enabled
\nassessments has been increasing rapidly, as they offer promise of cheaper ways of
\ndelivering and marking assessments as well as access to vast amounts of assessment
\ndata from which a wide range of judgements might be made about students, teachers,
\nschools and education systems (Gibson & Webb, 2015). These opportunities also extend
\nto assessment of complex collaborative work (Webb & Gibson, 2015). Current
\nopportunities for using IT, including for harnessing the data that is being collected
\nautomatically, for formative assessment are underexplored and less well understood
\nthan those for summative assessments. Opportunities for learning with IT and perhaps
\nwith less teacher input are increasing but this depends on students developing as
\nautonomous or independent learners. Research in formative assessment including
\neffective feedback has emphasised the value of peer assessment practices for
\ndeveloping self‐assessment capabilities and hence independent learners (Black,
\nHarrison, Lee, Marshall, & William, 2003). At previous EDUsummITs the possibilities and
\nchallenges for IT‐enabled assessments to support simultaneously both formative and
\nsummative purposes were analysed (Webb, Gibson, & Forkosh‐Baruch, 2013). While these challenges remain, at EDUsummIT 2017 we focused on the opportunities and
\nchallenges of IT supporting formative assessment because effective formative
\nassessment is known to be extremely important for learning.

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