The Role Technology in Assessing Learning and Ensuring Academic Integrity

Abstract

The digital revolution has bestowed educators with many possibilities for enhancing learning and its assessment. Powerful and easy to use learning management systems and other web-based programmes allow students' 24/7 access to course resources and activities, and they afford teachers the opportunity to manage and mark course assessments online. Unfortunately, the same technologies and tools have generated some challenges for academic integrity. Nearly half of all secondary and tertiary students, for example, report engagement 'cut-n-paste' plagiarism. In this session, we will discuss this dual legacy of the digital revolution with an aim toward understanding how technology can be used (efficiently and effectively) in the assessment of learning and to ensure academic integrity.