Focus question: How can teachers evaluate and assess their students?
Tech tool: Online rubrics and quizzes.
In this chapter I've explored how teachers can evaluate their students; before I even read the chapter I had ideas flowing through my head. I strongly feel as though technology is the best way to track, evaluate and assess our students, because by the use of technology students will probably feel more comfortable using devices that they already know how to use, and feel more secure, knowing that the only eyes who are going to see what they write is the teachers.
As teachers we can access all of our students windows and screens, see what sites they have visited, and by them doing work over the internet, submitting it to us, the computer is less likely to make a mistake, so grading won't take as long and we can focus more of our attention on our students in the specific areas they need it; instead of grading it our selves and wasting valuable time.
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Online rubrics are wonderful! I can't tell you how many times I lost the assignment paper or it got ruined in my back pack, where as if it's online, it can't get ripped, wet or lost,(unless the teacher deletes it). Quizzes online make it easier to do on your own time. Life is hectic, it's hard to attend class on time every time when there are so many other things we could be doing. Thus, making a rubric and quiz available online allows us as humans to fit more into our day.
All in all, we live very busy lives, not every student is going to be at the same level, as I read in the section about "Standards-Based Assessments" it's a national test, so scores are compared all around the country. If we were to administer something like that, grade it by hand, and compare it by hand, we wouldn't know what the national average is until it's too late. So, what I'm trying to say is we need technology, to better our students in a timely manor, to progress in our very fast paced world.
Resources:
Textbook - Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2011). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN:10 0-13-159611-X, ISBN:13 978-0-13-159611-5
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Technology can definitely play a role in assessments - ease of use and automatic scoring/analysis are definite assets! Great photo to show what a rubric would look like. Again, though, be sure to separate your sections and follow the rubric! :)
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