[Open-education] 2nd call for papers: 3rd Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA 2016) to be held in the context of the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2016) September 16th (Friday) Lyon, France

Fri Jun 17 07:02:38 UTC 2016

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                                 ***2nd call for papers***

3rd Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA) 2016
                          to be held in the context of
the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) 2016
             September 16th, 2016, Lyon,France
                         http://www.ccead.puc-rio.br/tefa2016/
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Overview

Today, learning often occurs collaboratively in learner networks; formal
learning is combined with informal learning; and learners use, for example,
personalised and personal learning environments adapted to their needs and
preferences. While in a general sense any assessment can be used for 
formative
or summative purposes, more genuinely formative assessment needs to 
provide:
(a) rich, detailed information about learning (feedback),
(b) information that offers guidance on how to improve learning, and
(c) opportunities to actively construct an understanding about how to 
regulate
learning, and negotiate a successful outcome amongst the key stakeholders.

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Workshop Goals

The goal of the workshop is to develop the notion of technology-enhanced
formative assessment (TEFA) as a component for extending existing or new
TEL approaches, further combining expertise from pedagogy, educational
measurement, cognitive science, and information technology. A trend from
dedicated to integrated and from sporadic to continuous formative 
assessment
is envisioned.
Challenging research questions will be addressed such as:
- How are established forms of formative assessment changing with the
   inclusion of technology and what new forms of formative assessment 
become possible?
- How is this reflected in new approaches to educational measurement?
- How can we build, maintain, communicate and negotiate learner models 
so that they
   maximize the value of formative assessment for learning?
- What is required to empower the users (students, peers, teachers, 
parents,
   employers, workers) to make best use of TEFA in order to guide learning?
- How can integrated and continuous formative assessment be supported
   by an ICT infrastructure?
- How can information technology help to innovate the ways in which
   TEFA methods are developed?

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Workshop Topics

The following topics are proposed, but the submissions need not be 
limited to
these:
     * mobile assessment and feedback technologies
     * integrated e-assessment, embedded assessment
     * location-based/context aware educational feedback
     * (automated) item design and generation
     * automated analysis of open answers
     * alignment of formative and summative feedback
     * peer-assessment
     * learning analytics and assessment
     * formative assessment of 21st Century skills
     * standard-conform e-assessment, flexible e-assessment, 
interoperable e-assessment
     * assessment in immersive education, assessment in Serious Games, 
in 3D worlds.....
     * e-assessment in complex learning - i.e. collaborative learning, 
serious games,
     digital stories, discussion forums
     * assessment Rubrics
     * semantic Web Technologies to support learning assessment
     * TEL infrastructures for the development and deployment of 
formative assessment
     * evaluation of formative assessment and open learner models
     * innovative interaction formats of tests and items including
     specific technologies such as VR, AR, 3D worlds etc.

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Submissions

This workshop invites papers (max 6 pages in Springer Format) that deal with
approaches and innovative assessment technologies, which support the
transition from current assessment scenarios towards the themes listed 
above.
Each submission will be commented by three reviewers.

Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Please submit your paper from the Workshop website: 
http://www.ccead.puc-rio.br/tefa2016/index.php/submissions/
or directly via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tefa2016

All publications will be published as CEUR Workshop proceedings.
Selected contributions will be developed in a special issue of an open 
access journal
(for example, International Journal of E-Assessment, IJEA) or IxDA.

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Important Dates in 2013

     * Submissions deadline:          June 30th, 2016
     * Notification of acceptance:     July 11th, 2016
     * Camera-Ready Version:         July 30th, 2016
     * Workshop date:                September 16th, 2016

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Organisers

Dr. Eric Ras (first contact), Luxembourg Institute of Science and
Technology (LIST), LUXEMBOURG, eric.ras at list.lu

Muriel Foulonneau, Luxembourg Institute of Science and
Technology (LIST), LUXEMBOUR, muriel.foulonneau at list.lu

Dr.Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de
Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, bnunes at inf.puc-rio.br

Dr. Ivana Marenzi, Leibniz Universität Hannover, L3S Research Center,
Hannover, GERMANY, marenzi at l3s.de

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