Assessing students’ competences through digital technologies.

Abstract

Providing high-quality, formative feedback is a crucial aspect of teaching. The key idea in this chapter is that digital, real-time collaborative feedback on students’ work through platforms such as Teams and Google Classroom is an important educational innovation. The approach can provide teachers with new insight into each student’s working process and allow them to give formative feedback while the student is still actively engaged in the task. Drawing on data from Norway, a country with an extensive digital infrastructure, the chapter discusses how teachers and school leaders used the shift to remote and blended learning situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to increase and expand the use of digital formative feedback and to find new ways of collaborating between teachers and students. Focusing on the potential of real-time digital feedback, this chapter explores the lessons learned and the possibility of upscaling this particularly promising way of providing feedback.