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Recommendations for Mandatory Online Assessment in Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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COVID-19 pandemic has affected the final months of 2019/2020s semester of the higher education academic year. Even though traditional face-to-face lectures had to be moved online with no purposeful planning, the biggest challenge has been the online assessment of the learning process. The Group of Online Teaching Managers of the Public Universities of Castilla y León (Spain) has prepared a set of recommendations to help teachers, students and universities in this unique process.

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This work has been carried out with the support of European Union ERDF funds with the aim of “Promoting technological development, innovation and quality research”.

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  1. GRIAL Research Group, Computer Science Department, Facultad de Ciencias, Research Institute for Educational Sciences, University of Salamanca, Plaza de Los Caídos, S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Francisco José García-Peñalvo

  2. Departamento de Pediatría e Inmunología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Valladolid, Avda. Ramón y Cajal 7, 47002, Valladolid, Spain

    Alfredo Corell

  3. EDINTEC Research Group, Educational Sciences Department, Facultad de Educación, Virtual Learning Centre of the University of Burgos (UBUCEV), University of Burgos, C/ Villadiego, 1, 09001, Burgos, Spain

    Víctor Abella-García

  4. Department of General and Specific Didactics and Educational Theory, Faculty of Education, University of León, Office 152, Campus de Vegazana, s/n, 24071, León, Spain

    Mario Grande-de-Prado

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García-Peñalvo, F.J., Corell, A., Abella-García, V., Grande-de-Prado, M. (2021). Recommendations for Mandatory Online Assessment in Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Burgos, D., Tlili, A., Tabacco, A. (eds) Radical Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7869-4_6

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