CBA Concepts, Tools & Workshop

From Paper to Digital: Experience, Build, and Transform Assessment

Session Objective

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

QR code — sample CBA
bit.ly/cba-ctw
Lets Review....
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What did the computer-based assessment do that a traditional paper test cannot easily do?

⚡Immediate scoring
💬Automatic feedback
🎲Randomized questions
🎬Multimedia
📊Item analysis
📥Data collection
🚀Faster reporting
📍Tracking
♿Accessibility
🌳Reduced paper

Major features of Computer Based Assessment

Reflect

💡 What Just Happened?

Uncover the Concept....

INPUT

What goes into the system?
❓Questions
🔘Choices
🖼️Images
📄Instructions
🎬Videos

Reflect

What did the system do?

Uncover the Concept....

PROCESS

How the system handles the input
✔️Checked answers
🧮Calculated scores
🔗Evaluated responses
⚙️Settings
🗂️Administrations

Reflect

What did you get from the system?

Uncover the Concept....

OUTPUT

What the system returns
📊Score
💬Feedback
📈Performance data
✅Correct / incorrect responses
📋Reports

Reflect

Is the score the end of the process?

Uncover the Concept....

DECISION

What the teacher does with it
🔄Reteach
🧩Remediate
📚Enrich
💬Give feedback
🎯Identify struggling learners

Putting it together

CBA Cycle

The four-stage loop
1 · Input

What goes in

Questions, choices, media, settings, administration

2 · Process

What the system does

Checks answers, scores, evaluates responses

4 · Decision

What the teacher does

Reteach, remediate, enrich, give feedback

3 · Output

What comes back

Score, feedback, performance data, reports

→
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←
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Cycle

Whole-audience response

Hand Sign Activity

Show the stage with your hands
🫱
Input
Cross arms, hands on the chest
🫳
Process
Palms on the shoulder tips — right hand on right shoulder, left hand on left
👉
Output
Both hands pointing towards in front
🤫
Decision
Right hand placed in front of the mouth

Hand-sign response

Input
01
"The teacher enters the questions!"
Questions!

Hand-sign response

Process
02
"The computer checks the answers!"
Automatic scoring!

Hand-sign response

Output
03
"The learner receives a score!"
Feedback!

Hand-sign response

Decision
04
"The teacher decides to reteach!"
Reteaching!

Hand-sign response

Input
05
"The teacher enters the questions!"
Questions!

Hand-sign response

Process
06
"The computer checks the answers!"
Automatic scoring!

Hand-sign response

Output
07
"The learner receives a score!"
Feedback!

Hand-sign response

Decision
08
"The teacher responds with reteaching!"
Reteaching!

CBA Tools

Platforms we can use

Explore the tools
WaygroundWayground
Google FormsGoogle Forms
KahootKahoot
MoodleMoodle

Where we are

We've moved

🎭We've just experienced CBA.
💡We've uncovered how it works.
🔍We've also seen that CBA is more than putting a test online.

Workshop time

Now it's your turn

CBA Build Challenge

CBA Challenge

Create → Exchange → Experience → Analyze

Challenge Objective

Each table will create a CBA, exchange it with another table, take the assessment, and analyze the assessment using the INPUT–PROCESS–OUTPUT–DECISION framework.

Your Expected Output

YOUR EXPECTED OUTPUT

🔵
INPUT
What goes into the assessment?
  • Questions
  • Instructions
  • Multimedia
  • Learner Responses
→
🟢
PROCESS
What happens inside the CBA?
  • Tool Utilization
  • Features
  • Settings
  • Administration
→
🟠
OUTPUT
What do we get?
  • Score
  • MPS
  • Item Analysis
→
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DECISION
What do we do with the results?
  • Intervention
  • Reflection

Key distinction

❌ CBA ≠ Paper Test + Computer

Digitizing vs transforming

📄 Digitized

  • Same paper questions, typed on screen
  • Same fixed order for everyone
  • Score returned at the end
  • Computer is just a typewriter
→

🖥️ Transformed

  • Items adapt to each learner
  • Feedback delivered per answer
  • Media, simulation, interaction
  • Results drive a teaching decision

The bigger picture

📊
Better Assessment
Sound items, clear design, real data
→
🧭
Better Decisions
Evidence-driven teaching choices
→
🎯
Better Learning
Students who grow and succeed
🎉

Experience → Design → Transform

Thank you for building today. Go transform one assessment — and let the results improve your teaching.

Effective CBA Workshop · 2026

Leave with this

"Technology doesn't transform learning —
teachers do."