We must go beyond assessing objectives to allowing students to demonstrate that they have acheived the learing outcomes. while standard forms of assessment, such as Cloze and multiple choice can accurately measure results in terms of recall of concepts and facts, they cannot measure outcome aspects such as critical thinking, organization, and communication. To do this, new forms of assessment are needed so that as students customize their learnning, adding content from resources, other students and outsiders, it can be effectively captured and demonstrated.
