Distance Education in Lockdown Period: Why We Should Not Quarantine Measurement and Evaluation?

• Main Author: Halil Sarı
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Uluslararası Eğitim Araştırmacıları Dergisi 2020-06-01
• Series: Uluslararası Eğitim Araştırmacıları Dergisi
• Subjects: covid-19; distance learning; measurement and evaluation; uzaktan eğitim; ölçme ve değerlendirme
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ueader/issue/55302/730598?publisher=http-egitim-kilis-edu-tr-cv-durmu-c5-9e-burak-pdf

The coronavirus, which emerged in China in the late 2019, spread rapidly all over the world, and has become a pandemic. Social isolation applied to prevent the spread of the outbreak made it necessary to lockdown at home. This necessity has affected the education system as well as many areas of life. Both schools and universities switched to the distance education system. The distance education, which is an important development for Turkish education system, brought up many questions especially on how to measure and evaluate to the agenda. In this study, the incidents that have been experienced in education in the world and in Turkey during the distance education in the outbreak are discussed. The aim of the study is to provide forward-looking approaches and suggestions to our colleagues about what to do in measurement and evaluation in distance education in Turkey. The changes have been made on the measurement and evaluation systems of universities in the world are revealed.