Formative assessment in ODL environments: a proposal for conceptual and technological support

This paper presents a technological and conceptual support to formative assessment at Learning Management Systems. The proposed model aims to support the formative assessment at the distance education domain, emphasizing the formative assessment of online collaborative learning activities. The model explores computational technologies to provide a more effective support for formative assessment on two complementary ways: (1) by supporting the planning of learning activities to be assessed, as well as the support to the educator regulation of participations on these planned assessment activities; (2) by reducing the amount of information to be analyzed, helping the educator on the recovery and analysis of relevant information for participation regulation, according to the criteria defined at each learning activity assessment planning.