Sessions

Assessment of Learner and Student Performance in Distance Learning

The new reality created by COVID-19 has caused a lot of changes in the educational sphere. The transition from face-to-face to distance teaching was not smooth in Ukraine because distance learning was not a common practice here before, and teachers were unprepared for teaching online. Therefore, we started our qualitative research primarily to get insights into the altered daily routines of teachers. In particular, we were interested in how teachers assessed their students’ performance online. In this paper, we will focus on secondary school language teachers (n=65) and language tutors at the tertiary level (n=18). The research findings have revealed that teachers gave feedback through different digital applications such as Google Classroom. Oral performance was evaluated either synchronously or asynchronously. The most crucial implication is that teachers should improve and further develop their digital skills and distance teaching and assessing skills in order to provide quality education in the digital world.