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Assessment

Why: 

• Without an assessment, we won't know if our students have learned anything.

• Good assessments help you plan and adjust your lessons based on the needs of your students.

• Computer based assessments can provide instant feedback and greater insight into the strengths and weaknesses of your students.  They also provide you and your students with more options for performance and authentic assessments.

Goal: To create and evaluate online assessments and design technology based projects to assess student learning.

Assessment: 
1. Create a thatquiz.org account, start a class, and  design one test

2. Review the list of technology based assessments and add a new one to the list or evaluate an existing assessemnt from the list.


 Other Online Assessment Tools
• Socrative - Create live quizzes, in-class questions, games, and more with this tool.  Geared toward mobile devices and tablets, but works on computers just as well.

• Flubaroo - Collect responses via Google Forms and have them automatically graded.

 My Netbook Study/Assessment in a Nutshell
Problem - Does a 1:1 teaching environment benefit students more than a computer-less course of study?

Hypothesis - Students in a 1:1 environment will perform better than those in a computer less course of study.

Assessment/Experiment - Class divided into two groups of equal ability - one with only computer activities and one with all computer-less activities for a muscles/bones unit.  After two weeks, the groups switched (computers or non-computers). Several checkpoint assessments were administered during the unit, followed by a comprehensive assessment.

Results: See "7th grade" sheet to the right

Conclusion: Results from the computer group and non-computer group were mixed.  Computer users typically scored higher at first, but did not improve greatly over their initial gains.  Non-computer users scored lower at first, but made more significant gains over the course of the unit.  In the end, both groups, regardless of condition, scored about the same.  Having the computer and non-computer groups benefitted the whole class.  While one group worked on computers, the teacher was able to work with a smaller group of students and help them more directly.  The computers allowed the teacher to shrink the classroom.




Monty Hall Problem

The Monty Hall Problem - Click the picture  to play the game, then see if the results matched your expectation.  Review the explanation to see why.

 • Teachers may feel that their students understand a concept or operation, but can't be sure until they assess.

• Many people go into the Monty Hall problem with false assertions (stick with your choice), but real world testing has shown this assertion lowers the probability of success.

• It's easy, after teaching a lesson, to assume that students have it, but we must assess to truly know.




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