Technology and Assessment

1. Technology
and
Assessment
PREPARED BY:
ROSELLE M. REONAL

2. Technology can help teachers
track and assess their students'
-- as well as their own --
performance in the classroom. It
can also be used to facilitate
communication
between students and teachers
and to create digital records of
student growth and development
that can easily be passed along
from grade to grade.

3. How can technology assist
in understanding the
minds of children?
You can gather a lot of insight by
talking to a child at length, but that is
often not practical in the classroom.
Given the constraints of the
classroom, technology can provide
another set of ways to assess what
children are understanding and
learning. It allows for continuing
evaluation of the classroom lessons.

4. Technology can also be
used in the production
of portfolios.
Students can use:
• Scanners
• digital photographs
• computer-generated movies

5. Technology can be used for
instant assessment in many
different ways, such as tracking
student progress over time.
Perhaps even more compelling,
however, EdTech can also be
used to aid formative
assessment: helping to boost
engagement, identify knowledge
gaps, and support
further/deeper learning.

6. 5 Ways EdTech
can be Used to
aid learning and
assessment in
classroom

7. 1. Increase Flexibility
pupils access and complete
online assessments at a time
that best suits their individual
learning style and needs

8. 2. Improve Feedback
Allows teachers to assess
student comprehension in
the moment of learning,
with real-time
assessments and instant
polling.
ClassFlow is a collaborative and
cloud-based lesson delivery
software for interactive whiteboards
and interactive displays. It sends
quizzes, instant polls and activities
to students using a broad range of
student devices and question types
such as:
Multiple Choice, True/False, Likert
Scale, Number, Creative Response
and many more.

9. “Technology gives us a way to get feedback
continually during the teaching process,
instead of at the end of the teaching process --
when you end up with only a retrospective
understanding.” (Petrosino, 2007).

10. Like a ship…
Continual feedback between
teachers and students generates a
way of teaching that is very different
from the traditional approach. It
becomes more like sailing a ship,
with the teacher constantly adjusting
course. The goal is set, but the
actual path responds to the needs of
the individual students.

11. 3. Recognize and cater for
differences
Along with a variety of online
resources to boost learning,
there is a vast range of apps
available to help teachers
assess pupils depending on
their personal interests,
abilities, and goals
ClassDojo is a mobile app can be
used to record student behavior and
achievements in context.

12. 4. Understand the
importance of
emotion
Technology is being used
to help teachers consider
the emotional impact of
their learning activities,
assessments and teaching
methods.

13. “Sometimes students just don’t resonate with content, but technology can
overcome this disengagement by evoking a student’s emotion to better learn
and retain material.” (Darby, 2019)

14. 5. Consolidate
Learning
Students can also use
audio and video tools to
create podcasts and
presentations reviewing
their learning that term.

15. 5 Pillars for
Assessment and
Technology
Purposes:
Consider an assessment system
that feeds information up, back,
and forward
Align assessment practice to
quality digital tools.
Collaborate to share ideas and
tools for implementation.

16. Comparing Formative and Summative Assessments

17. Formative Assessments
Through formative assessment, teachers check student
understanding, get valuable data on student learning, and then
use that data to modify instruction.
The best formative assessment tools also help students self-
reflect and assess, figuring out where they are and where they
need to go as learners.
Its also allows the educator to continuously gauge student
learning while making it effortful and challenging (Agarwal,
2017).

18. EDTECH Tools that can aid formative assessments

19. EDTECH Tools that can aid formative assessments

20. EDTECH Tools that can aid formative assessments

21. EDTECH Tools that can aid formative assessments

22. Summative Assessments
Learning outcomes must also be observed from a
broader scope, allowing for benchmarks of achievement
to be evaluated. Summative assessment tools allow
educators to analyze the overall achievement of
students. Two broad methods for using technology for
summative assessment are discussed in this section:
The Learning Management System (LMS) and electronic
portfolios (e-Portfolios).

23. Learning Management System (LMS)
A learning management system (LMS) is often
considered the centerpiece of a teacher’s summative
assessment toolbox.
For the teacher, the LMS is the ultimate assessment
tool.

24. Different LMS
Schoology is a social
networking service and virtual
learning environment for K-12
school and higher education
institutions that allows users to
create, manage, and share
academic content.

25. Different LMS
Jupiter iO is a comprehensive cloud-hosted
product focused on improving students’
academic accomplishments .The software
allows you to assess students online, review
results, track progress in real time, and
communicate information to parents and
other stakeholders.

26. Different LMS
G Suite for Education provides a suite of cloud-based tools to nonprofit K–12
and higher education institutions and homeschools. The tools and services include
include messaging and collaboration apps, such as Gmail, Google Drive and
Calendar, Classroom, and so on.

27. Electronic Portfolios
(e-portfolios)
An E-Portfolio is an electronic account of student
work/progress used at all educational levels from early
education through higher education. Eportfolios can
support deep learning and support reflective practices
across various learning contexts as they facilitate
overall learning.

28. Electronic Portfolios
(e-portfolios)
The reason that e-portfolios have become a successful
assessment tool is because they require significant and
purposeful work from the student. During the
development process students may experience
student–faculty interaction, which allows students to
evaluate and discuss their own learning over time
(Harring & Luo, 2016).

29. Electronic Portfolios
(e-portfolios)
The eportfolio would involve signature assignments
representative of student learning over a longer period.
The period may span a semester, a school year, or even
a school career.

31. References:
Nu-Man, M.R., and Porter, T.M., (2018). Igniting Your Teaching
with Educational Technology A Resources for New Teachers.
Editors: Matt Rhoads & Bonni Stachowiak.
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