Lecturers’ Experiences with Digital Assessments
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-006-0_16How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Online assessment; Higher Education; fourth industrial revolution
- Abstract
In preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), higher education institutions are concerned that new graduates are inadequately prepared for their place of work. The disparity can result in unemployment and a short supply of skilled labour. Higher education institutions, as the producers of skilled labour have a responsibility to accelerate the alignment of examinations focused on developing 21st-century skills capabilities in students. The main intention of an examination in pedagogy is to offer data and revise intended instructions. The research is aimed at understanding the difficulties of digital assessments to deal with the 21st-century disparity in skills. Due to an epistemological conviction around a social constructivist interpretive background, a case study approach is used to construct the reality influenced by the lecturers’ experiences. Based on purposeful sampling, ten (10) business studies lecturers with over five (5) years of teaching experience, and familiarity with the traditional teaching methods were selected from Elangeni TVET College. Data were collected in the study using semi-structured interviews. Data was reduced into codes and themes to identify patterns of regularities to arrive at a conclusion and findings. The purpose of the study was to establish if there are any difficulties experienced by lecturers in digital assessments to produce the competencies of the 21st century. The research suggested a change in the mode of assessment based on the skills requirements of the workplace and in line with the requirements of 4IR.
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TY - CONF AU - L. Smith AU - N. Cekiso PY - 2023 DA - 2023/02/07 TI - Lecturers’ Experiences with Digital Assessments BT - Proceedings of The Focus Conference (TFC 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 186 EP - 195 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-006-0_16 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-006-0_16 ID - Smith2023 ER -