DEVELOPING COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS IN ELEARNING COMMUNITIES

This paper presents the development of systems for helping a community of educator to share and reuse digital learning materials, and for enabling learners to enhance their online formative assessment. This educational design research is conducted iteratively toward dual goals: fostering competency-based assessment and proposing new structured knowledge for practitioners facing similar issues. Two main products respectively related to the research goals are presented, to be used as the core of the systems integrated to virtual learning communities: a methodology for planning automatic assessment units as parts of adaptive learning paths, and an ontological scheme about the relations between cognitive processes and disciplinary contents defining learning objectives. The outcomes are discussed considering results obtained from some experimentation.