چکیده:
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a new shaking educational development provide the scene for achieving social inclusion and dissemination of knowledge. Anyhow, facilitating network learning experiences through creating an adaptive learning environment can pave the way for this open and energetic way to learning. The present study aimed to explore the possible role of Dynamic Assessment (DA) as an evaluation tool for providing an adaptive learning to the diversity of online platforms. 453 Second Language (L2) learners participated in the course. Similar to the typical MOOCs, learners watched lecture videos, answered quizzes, posted responses to forums, and communicated with others. Dissimilar to the typical MOOCs, the quizzes were prepared and assessed based on DA tenets and the learners were required to take a listening comprehension test at the end of each module. Quantitative analyses were made to find out each individual's Zone of Actual Development (ZAD), Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), and Learning Potential Score (LPS). The findings of the study revealed that DA was promising for giving insight into the development of the learner’s listening comprehension and the assessment of listening ability in MOOC. The results of the study pinpointed that scores on what a learner could do alone and without assistance, ZAD scores, could not provide a clear picture of the learner’s listening ability, while mediation helped to reveal his/her potential abilities (ZPD) and diagnose his/her difficulties. It was also shown that DA brought to light the areas the learner needed more support and instruction, and consequently provided a profound feedback and evaluation on the learner’s learning and performance, the elements missed in MOOC.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Potentiality of Dynamic Assessment in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): The Case of Listening Comprehension MOOCs 1Farrokhlagha Heidari* 2Mehri Izadi IJEAP- 1911-1455 Received: 2020-01-25 Accepted: 2020-03-31 Published: 2020-04-18 Abstract Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a new shaking educational development provide the scene for achieving social inclusion and dissemination of knowledge.
The results of the study pinpointed that scores on what a learner could do alone and without assistance, ZAD scores, could not provide a clear picture of the learner’s listening ability, while mediation helped to reveal his/her potential abilities (ZPD) and diagnose his/her difficulties.
's (2014) theory of diagnostic assessment, Dynamic Assessment (DA) with its great reliance on mediation throughout the testing procedure allows to diagnose main sources of problems, shed light on the process of learning, provide purposeful information, and observe language development.
While MOOCs integrate social inclusion, build on the active engagement of a large number of learners who self-organize their learning according to their own specific learning goals, and provide the facilitation of an acknowledged expert, the automated nature of scoring demands the educators to seek for alternative procedures of providing detailed feedback to students to fulfill their desire for benefiting the whole potentiality of this online innovation.
At present, the popular forms of assessments in MOOCs are “computer-scored multiple choice questions, formulaic problems with correct answers, logical proofs, computer codes, and matching items, often with targeted feedback based on the responses given” (Reilly, Stafford, Williams, & Corliss, 2014, p.