Problem
Recently I came across a quote by Paul Dennis Miller-known professionally as D.J. Spooky--is an electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics as trip hop. He opined, "With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file." I think this week's reading broadly addresses how to remove those "blurs." This removal requires a robust and evidence-based method to enhance our understanding of assessment/evaluation in order to "edit, tweak, and transform" multimedia to meet well-designed learning objectives.
Digital Media in Today's Classrooms (chp. 8) and from Multimedia Instructional Design (chps. 26-32) includes much on which to ponder and into which to investigate. While we have much to fill many hours of intense study, select a topic that interests you the most and that which you might have not clearly understood. Few of the issues that merit thought, and action include, designing rubrics for digital media, collaborative activity assessment, integrating a standards-based method for evaluating rubrics, the nature of structure in multimedia, purpose for evaluation, assessment strategies, designing projects with built-in evaluations, evaluation planning, levels of instrument validity, construction of evaluation instruments, data collection and analysis, among others.