Open Assessors' Network

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This page is about a mass collaboration project Open Assessors' Network. For a description about the project's website and workspace, see Opasnet.


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The Open Assessors' Network is a mass collaboration project for open assessors, that is people who are willing to promote the open assessment practices in the aim to improve societal decision-making. The major part of the collaboration happens on Opasnet, the website and workspace of this network: http://en.opasnet.org. In addition, there is a plan that Open Assessors' Network should be developed into a scientific society. The society could maintain the Opasnet website and publish the Journal of Open Assessment.

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Tasks that open assessors should be able to do

These are technical tasks that are important for performing or evaluating open assessments in Opasnet. They are in a rough order of importance, starting from those that are the most common or crucial skills. Of course, there are many other skills that are important but not technical (e.g. understanding what to write, in addition to knowing how to write in a wiki), but they are not listed here.

  • Writing a wiki page to Opasnet.
    • Using typical formatting: headings; bold; italic; bulleted and numbered lists; links within Opasnet, to Wikipedia, and to external sources; references; bringing images.
  • Evaluating scientific content and usefulness of a page.
  • Understanding and using the heading (attribute) structure for information objects: scope, result, rationale, see also, keywords, references, related files.
  • Downloading data from Opasnet Base. Choosing particular locations from indices. Selecting between uploads. Selecting means or samples.
  • Uploading data to Opasnet Base using different tools.
  • Writing a structured discussion on a discussion page and linking to it from the content page.
  • Marking extensive pages as publications.
  • Writing R code for variables and running it to get results. Uploading results to Opasnet Base.

See also