Conversation-Based Assessments: Real-Time Assessment and Feedback

What is it about?

In recent years, substantial progress has been made in the application of technology for learning environments to support interaction and learning. However, current digital assessments still need to be modified to measure student learning in more engaging and effective ways. Conversation-based assessment (CBA) advances the conventional digital assessments by creating a conversational environment between test-takers and agent where each test-taker receives feedback for their correct responses and hints or follow-up questions for their incorrect responses through a natural conversation. This work provides a summary of CBAs by discussing their advantages and differences from conventional digital assessments.

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Why is it important?

It is difficult to create engaging and motivating assessments due to the lack of interaction and thus modification of the ways to deliver conventional digital assessments is necessary and inevitable. CBAs have an important role in the future of assessments and they can become a solution to the engagement and motivation problems that instructors often face.