COMARKER™ and Assessment
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Rapid Feedback + Multiple Drafts + Rubrics =
Well developed tools for formative assessment and evaluation
Rubrics
 For students to be able to improve they must have the capacity to monitor the quality of their own work during actual production
This requires that the students possess an appreciation of what quality work is.
Comarker has been built to help teachers give their students feedback through the drafting process, and to do this naturally and quickly.
Comarker gives teachers the power to make incisive remarks quickly and easily, during the writing process, where it matters most.
Formative Assessment is a Good Thing
Summative assessment is intended to summarise student attainment at a particular time, whereas formative assessment is intended to promore further improvement of student attainment
Assessment OF learning
or
 Assessment FOR learning
help teachers create assignments and evaluations that are formative (promote further improvement of student attainment), even as they summarize attainment
Rubrics make teaching more efficient
Rubrics can be converted from assessment tools to evaluation tools by adding point values to each component
Rubrics give instructors a common language to use in determining the extent to which students have met stated objectives
Rubrics make requirements more transparent to students.
They provide considerable information to students who are embarking on an assignment
With rapid feedback and rubrics Comarker is Formative
Students can improve frim 21 to 41 percent compared with students whose teachers provide summative assessment
Students are more motivated to learn
Students take responsibilty for their own learning
Students become active participants in their own evaluation
Students learn valuable skills such as self-evaluation, self-assessment, and goal setting.
COMARKER and Rubrics
Rapid Feedback + Multiple Drafts
Outcomes and Metrics
Summative vs. Formative
Readings and Sources