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Key:
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. A
This is
a quiz about money. This quiz correlates with Arizona State Standards
(Common Core) AZ 2.MD.8 - Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters,
dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately.
This
quiz is meant to be a summative assessment. It is a quick quiz to assess
student understanding of a concept after a lesson has been completed. A
teacher may analyze the student results in order to measure the student
understanding. With the results a teacher may make an informed decision
to either move on to other material, or to go over these concepts again and in
greater detail in order to enhance student understanding of the concepts.
Part
2: Blog Post
Introduction (4-6
Sentences):
The use of technology to facilitate assessment has great
potential to assist teachers in the education process. Assessment technology gives teachers the
ability to analyze and respond to the learning needs of every student with
greater speed and flexibility (Landauer, Lochbaum, and Dooley, 2009). Many assessment technologies give students
useful feedback on their comprehension of a subject. This paper will analyze different types of
technology that can be used to assess student learning, the differences between
formative and summative assessment, and weigh the pros and cons of using
technology to facilitate assessment.
Technology to Facilitate Ongoing
Efforts to Assess Student Learning
Technology enhances a teacher’s
ability to facilitate the ongoing efforts to assess student learning in the
classroom. Technology can give a teacher
immediate feedback on a student’s level of comprehension. A teacher can use the information gathered to
decide whether to reteach, when to move on to a new topic, and when to explain
or demonstrate something in a different way (Tomlinson, 2007). Technology gives students a variety of
options to use in order to demonstrate mastery of a subject or material. Many students do not perform well on tests
even if they know the material well. A
variety of technological tools can be used to demonstrate a student’s
knowledge.
(Wireless active responding clickers) A technology such as clickers
has many benefits when it comes to student assessment. A teacher can use this tool to gather real
time responses and data from the students.
The teacher can tailor a lesson according to the responses. A teacher can either slow-down and explain a
concept in greater detail or move ahead according to the responses of the
students. A teacher might post questions
on an interactive whiteboard and ask the students to respond to different
questions throughout the lesson.
(Digital Presentations) A
digital presentation can be used in place of a formal test. A student can demonstrate comprehension of a
specific topic or material by creating a digital presentation about the
subject. At the end of a unit, a teacher may give the student’s a variety of
options in the form of digital presentations to choose from and ask them to
demonstrate what they have learned through the use of a digital presentation.
(Digital quiz) A
digital quiz is a convenient way for a teacher to assess a student’s
comprehension. There are a number of web
based quiz services to choose from. A
teacher can create a quick quiz for students to complete from their home computer,
smart phone or tablet. Websites that
offer a digital quiz have the ability to correlate and analyze the data. The website will even email the results of
the quiz directly to a teacher. A
teacher may create a short quiz at the end of a lesson in order to assess the
student’s level of knowledge.
(Formative and Summative
Assessments)
According to Gunter and Gunter, formative
assessment is the measuring of a student’s understanding according to a certain
amount of time at many different points. A teacher should gather a variety of
assignments and activities to make sure the student is developing the
comprehension and skills in order to master the content (Gunter & Gunter,
2014). Formative assessment is
assessment for learning. Wireless
clickers are a good example of formative assessment. Wireless clickers can be used to gather data
throughout a lesson. A teacher can use the
information to steer the course of the lesson presented based on the needs of
the students. According to Gunter and
Gunter, summative assessment is the evaluation of student understanding at any
specific time (Gunter & Gunter, 2014, p. 320). Summative assessment usually takes place at
the end of a unit, class or course. A
digital presentation is a good example of summative assessment. A teacher could assign students to create a
digital presentation that displays their knowledge or understanding of a
particular topic covered in a course.
(Pros and Cons of using
Technology to Facilitate Assessment)
The use of technology to facilitate
assessment has many benefits. The use of
technology can be motivating and engaging for students. The use of technology for assessment can give
teachers and students immediate feedback and results that will improve the
learning process. The use of technology
for assessment can also create a variety of ways in which a student can
demonstrate knowledge gained over a course or unit. As always with the use of any technology in
the classroom, teachers must safeguard students from the dangers of technology
and the Internet. Teachers should also carefully evaluate the
various technologies to identify those that are most effective, and appropriate
for use by students (Salend, 2009).
(“Should a teacher only use
technology to assess student learning? Why or why not?”)
Teachers
should absolutely take advantage of the wide variety of technological assessment
tools available today. A teacher must
carefully choose the tools that best fit the needs of the classroom. Technology can be a great benefit in
facilitating student assessment and achievement.
What
is the importance of assessment technology in connection with the ISTE
standards?
According to ISTE standards for teachers, teachers should
provide students with a variety of formative and summative assessments, which
are aligned with content standards. Teachers should use the resulting data to
adjust the teaching and learning process (ISTE.org). A teacher has the responsibility to use
assessment technology in order to address the individual learning needs of the
students.
Concluding Paragraph for Software to Support Assessment
Advances in
technology have positively impacted the way in which teachers assess student
learning and comprehension. A teacher
can use a variety of tools in order to generate feedback about a student’s
performance and aptitude. A student can
use a variety of tools to demonstrate the knowledge gained over the course of a
class or unit. Technology assessments
are very helpful in providing information for teachers about the learning
process of the students. Most
importantly, with the information gained through assessment, teachers can
improve teaching.
References
Gunter,
G.A. & Gunter R.E. (Ed.). (2014). Teachers Discovering Computers:
Integrating
Technology in a Changing World.
Boston, MA: Cengage Learning
Landauer,
Lochbaum, and Dooley, (2009). A new formative assessment technology for reading
and writing, Theory Into Practice.
Salend,
S. J. (2009). Technology-based classroom assessments. Teaching
Exceptional Children, 41(6), 48-58.
Tomlinson,
C. A. (2007). Learning to love assessment. Educational Leadership, 65(4),
8-13.
