Assesment in the Digital Era

Assessment in the Digital Era

Simulations & Microworlds

Elements of Effective Assessment in Lexia Core 5

Video with Mobile Devices

Assessment Delivery Management

Systems

Immediacy- Provides instant feedback for students

Self Evaluation- Students can view themselves and reflect on the learning in which they partake

Authenticity- Learning is "portable" and can be done anywhere

Immediacy- The students receive instant feedback for correct/incorrect answers.

Authenticity- Allows students to pactice reading skills witihin virtual worlds.

Provides norm-referenced reporting for teachers to see how students are performing within the context of their class, as well as age group.

Give students more authentic tasks that require students to manipulate the world to explore a topic. (Science ASSISTments,

WISE and Phet)

Collect, manage, and report data related to student learning outcomes assessment. It can range from Adding in technology to designing assessment in a digital age

Online Tutoring Programs

Blending instruction and assessment. Uses data as an indicator to what additional support for learning is needed.

For All Rubrics

This software is free for all teachers and allows you to import, create and score rubrics on your iPad, tablet or smartphone. You can collect data offline without internet access, compute scores automatically and print or save the rubrics as a PDF or spreadsheet.

Dialogue- This technology allows teachers to communicate expectations and criteria for success

Immediacy- Students can access their scores instantaneously

Self Evaluation- Students can use this tool to evaluate whether or not they have met the goals of the assignment

Evaluating Technology to Enhance Assessment

E-portfolios

Offers a way to archive what the student has learned. Evidence of learning can be shared and veiwed through a variety of media types.

Does the technology have elements of the following:

Blogs

Blogs are natural tools for reflection and self-assessment.

Helps to improve personal communication, and is a way to archive learning, which helps to show growth over time.

Available Technologies for Assessment of Learning

Dialogue & Correspondence- Users can receive feedback and share thoughts through forums, blogs, community posts etc.

Authenticity- Users can participate in vitrual simulations to help practice real world skills.

Immediacy- Rapid feedback helps to corret misconceptions and inform practices

Self-Evaluation/Regulation- Reflection and collection of evidence can generate ownership of learning

Social Media Sites

Blogs and wikis can play a vital part of formative assessment. "When we do a project like our virtual museum wiki, I get students to read and comment on each others' work before they submit it for marking. That helps them enhance the final work." (Hoare, 2008)

Why Do We Assess?

Student Response Systems

Interactive tools like voting devices find out what students are thinking, check for understanding, and provide a high level of engagement. Examples are Clicker6 and PollDaddy

Videos, podcasts, and images

Can be used not only for assesment but also for self reflection of the learning.

How Can Technology Enhance Assessment?

Assessing With Technology

Nancy, Beth, Joe and Joni

Involve the Leaners

Involve learners in the design of assessments and feedback utilize the ability of technology to assist in instruction while at the same time assessing needs of the learner as in “assistments”

Archive Work

E-Portfolios can be used to upport Self Monitoring and E-Portfolio Development

Technology Enhanced Assessment

Effectively Assess

There are many ways in which Technology can support assessment . Technology can aid and enhance assessment from the administration of individual tests and assignments to the management of assessment across a school district or other institution. It can also provide assistance from automatically marked on-screen tests to tools to support human marking and feedback. "Clearly, though, for technology-enhanced assessment to be effective, pedagogically sound developments need to be supported by robust and appropriate technology, within a supportive institutional or departmental context.” (JISC)

When speaking about 'Technology-enhanced assessment' we are referring to the wide range of ways in which technology can be used to support assessment and feedback. It includes on-screen assessment, often called

e-assessment.

Utilize the ability of technology to assist in instruction while at the same time assessing the needs of learners

References:

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/jun/17/link3

Critical Issues

• http://www.edudemic.com/the-6-types-of-assessments-and-how-theyre-changing/

• http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010/assessment-measure-what-matters

Include Rubrics

Assessment in the digital age

needs to...

Use Data to Inform Decisions

• http://www.nwea.org/blog/2013/digital-technology-tools-for-implementing-formative-assessment-post-one/

Although students' digital products are often impressive, a portfolio of student work should be linked to an analytic framework if it is to serve assessment purposes.

The portfolio reviewer needs to know:

• what competencies the work is intended to demonstrate
• what the standard or criteria for competence are in each area,
• what aspects of the work provide evidence of meeting those criteria.

• http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010/assessment-measure-what-matters

Provide formative and summative information to drive instruction, to assist in resource allocation, and for policy development

• http://www.ewcupdate.com/userfiles/assessmentnetwork_net/file/Effective%20Assmt%20in%20a%20Digital%20Age.pdf

• Assessment is a Technology - Presented by Royan Lee

• http://www.nwea.org/blog/2013/digital-technology-tools-for-implementing-formative-assessment-post-one/

Provide Feedback

Engage the Learner

• Provide feedback in the broadest sense to include forms of multimedia across state and national audiences

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/assessment.aspx

Explore the power of embedded assessment technologies such as simulations, virtual worlds, games and cognitive tutors can be used to engage learners while assessing complex skills