文档介绍：Reassessing the Assessment of Distance Education Courses
by Paula Szulc Dominguez, . & Dennis Ridley, .
 A Proposal for an Alternative Framework in Higher Education
September, 1999, THE Journal
Retrieved from /articles/14279
 
Institutions that offer distance education programs to adult learners in any form -- from correspondence to Web-based courses -- have been honor bound to establish that such courses provide student learning and content equivalent to that found with campus-based instruction. Often, distance education programs that are in their initial or pilot stages must demonstrate equivalency of learning es in order to gain a more permanent position on campus, and evidence is typically gathered through assessment.
Assessments and evaluations conducted over the past 15 years have attempted to shed light on the academic rigor of distance education courses by considering factors such as the nature of the mediating technology, different instructional approaches and course content. Two characteristics can be discerned amidst the wealth of investigations that pared distance education with traditional instruction: an emphasis on using data that are student-based and a upation with examining student performance in the semester the distance education course was taken.
Assessing the Situation
The reliance on student-centered data is readily understood. Student da