Learning-oriented assessment: a systematic literature network analysis

Abstract

Learning-oriented assessment (LoA) has emerged as a learning approach to improving student learning. The integration of LoA into vocational education creates a powerful framework that not only assesses students’ competencies effectively but also enhances their learning experience by making it more relevant, practical, and aligned with industry needs. This article fills a crucial research gap in learning assessment and offers valuable insights for practitioners and researchers to enhance learning approaches. This research uses the systematic literature network analysis method. It is a combination of a systematic literature review using the PRISMA protocol and bibliometric analysis using the VosViewer and Biblioshiny software. This research uses the Scopus database from 2018 to September 2023, totalling 378 papers. The network visualization analysis shows several keywords of LoA, including learning, humans, teaching, assessment, artificial intelligence, and digital technology. LoA can be implemented into vocational education covering the domains of skills and procedural knowledge. Further research on LoA can be linked to measuring students’ critical thinking, learning outcomes, and other relevant abilities. LoA can interact through blended, online, collaborative, work practice, project-based and digital technology-based learning. The results can serve as a guide for researchers in the LoA field to select and find future research topics.

Keywords

• bibliometric analysis
• competency
• learning-oriented assessment
• systematic literature review
• vocational education
• Sammy King Fai HUI, Senior Editor, Curriculum & Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong