Supporting the Measurement and Evaluation Processes of Academic Staff in Distance Education with the Online Education Portal

The aim of the project is to provide the academic staff working in higher education institutions, whose face-to-face lessons are transferred to the distance education system due to the COVID-19 epidemic, primarily to gain competence on how to conduct distance measurement; To prepare an online education portal that will guide the understanding of the basic principles of measurement, the development and application of measurement and evaluation tools. According to the findings obtained within the scope of the project, while the academic staff determine the assessment and evaluation approaches in distance education; They take into account the expectations of both students and the institutions they work for. Accordingly, it has been determined that academic staff prefer multiple choice exams, performance evaluation tasks, open-ended exams and projects in distance education. In addition, it has been determined that homework is the most frequently used method for evaluation in cases where students' opinions are taken. Academic staff, while performing the measurement and evaluation process in distance education, in order of frequency; They had difficulties in grading, using instructional management systems for measurement and evaluation, preparing items and measurement tools, and ensuring exam security. During the distance education period, the aid resources that academic staff apply in the context of measurement and evaluation are divided into four groups: Distance education centers, colleagues, internet resources and academic publications. It has been determined that the main contents that the relevant academic staff expect to be included in the prepared portal are digital measurement tools, rubric preparation steps and examples, and solution suggestions for the problems encountered in measurement and evaluation in distance education. Measurement and evaluation publications and online reference resources should be increased for academic staff from different readiness levels in higher education. Systematic support should be provided to academic staff in the areas of question writing, rubric preparation, alternative assessment tools for process-wide assessment, and digital assessment tools, which measure high-level skills against cheating behavior, especially in distance education, through the prepared portal and future reference resources. In addition, in order for academic staff to be able to measure and evaluate by using alternative methods effectively, the add-ons offered by the teaching management systems should be activated and the compatibility of the systems with the distance assessment and evaluation methods should be increased.