Gavin Cooney, CEO Learnosity presented his paper - Use of Mobile Phones for Language Learning and Assessment for Learning, a Pilot Project - at the mlearn conference in Melbourne. Gavin outlined the work the company has undertaken with the National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NCCA) to assist with the assessement of Irish language skills. The paper co-written by Gavin Cooney and Katrina Keogh from NCCA for the mlearn conference is available on the Learnosity site.
What is really interesting is that this is not just about assessing student learning but providing the opportunity for students and teachers to really engage in the learning cycle using adaptive formative e-assessment. For example,
- Students are encouraged to podcast their responses so they can be involved in a review process of their language learning
- Exemplary answers from student can be easily used as learning examples for other students
The assessment is all voice based with the ability for the system to use voiceprint, i.e ability for the system to know who is talking.
67% or students and teachers stated students had made progress in speaking as a result of participating in the project.
95% of students enjoyed using the technology.
Learnosity has been working with the NSW Board of Studies since 2002 in the area of e-assessment.
deebo-Deanne Bullen-education.au
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Thanks for the write up! Just a couple of things… the talk was called “Use of Mobile Phones for Language Learning and Assessment for Learning, a Pilot Project”- so use of mlearning FOR assessment as opposed to assessment OF mlearning!
Also the co-author was Katrina Keogh.
Cheers, Gav
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