Assessment+Technology

=Description=

[|Assessment] is the evaluation of the quality or ability of someone or something. It is a way to analyze the effectiveness or potential of an existing or planned intelligence activity. [|Technology] offers educators many tools that can be used in the classroom or online. Technology can help educators track and assess learners’ and instructors’ performance. It can track the progress of a student constantly throughout the learning process to ensure goals and objectives are met. This benefit allows for continuous feedback so the instructor can easily identify areas of weaknesses in their instruction or areas of focus for future instruction. Some examples of Assessment Technologies are [|Survey Monkey], [|Google Forms], and [|Exam Professor].

Here is a video showing how to use one Assessment Technology tool and it defines some of the benefits of Assessment Technology too. media type="custom" key="25507840"

Formative Assessments
There are many different types of formative assessments used in today's 21st century classroom. Formative assessments are used to improve student learning (and teaching) as on ongoing process. According to Bob Nilsson in his article, "//Formative Assessments Enable Personlized Learning in Education."//, formative assessments help improve student results in the following areas:
 * Takes emphasis off of grades and places it on learning
 * Fosters responsibility in students for their own learning
 * Provides students with immediate results needed for improvement
 * Decrease learning gaps

Some examples of analogue formative assessments are:
 * observations
 * class discussions
 * think pair share
 * exit tickets
 * questioning

Digital formative assessments help take assessments to a more personalized approach providing immediate feedback student by student. Some examples of some great free interactive digital formative assessments are:
 * Kahoot
 * Mentimeter
 * Poll Everywhere
 * Plickers
 * Padlet
 * Socrative
 * Triventy -Triventy is a game platform which enables you to write, run and host quizzes and surveys in your classroom.Your students will participate in the game using their smartphones - without any prior installation - while you run the game on a large screen - just like you would run a presentation.

(Click here to read a description of the above digital formative assessment tools.)

Advantages
 * 1) Lower students’ stress in taking a test
 * 2) Provide ongoing feedback that allows teacher to identify problem, address the issue alongside the teaching process
 * 3) Provide multiple chances to ensure students’ success in the summative assessments

Disadvantages
 * 1) Students fails to see the value of formative assessments and not taken it seriously.
 * 2) Time-consuming and requires ongoing dedication, modification and effort from the teacher to achieve the purpose of the formative assessments.
 * 3) Difficult to provide timely feedback to each student

=Summative assessment= When the instructor gives emphasis to learning instead of the grade, the assignments and projects become meaningful. Doing a summative assessment is little hard when the assessments has to have a bench mark to compare with, especially when it is to encourage the students. Grades brings stress in to learning. A summative assessment should have three important elements to make it learner oriented A learning objective ,A time frame, Project based learning. Why should a evaluation have a learning objective? Well through the assessment the student learn to show their skill or mastery in the particular subject. It is for the students to establish the bench mark instead of the teacher. The teacher can give his assessments and guidance via feed backs. That means the project has to be timely manageable chunks, An instructor can have rubrics for this manageable chunks where the students decide how far he can take his show on the road. THat brings he instructor to the third element It should be project based, meaning the student gets to choose what kind of project is going to be his show piece. It can be a research paper,or writing their own questions or assessments to their peers, It also can be a movie or a ted talk. It can be a pod cast. So these three elements help the student evaluate himself with the help of the instructor. So it is not the grade point that defines the student's knowledge but their skills in presenting their know how in the subject matter. The above elements can also bring Blooms Taxonomy in to the learning environment. Some of the above tools for formative assessment tools can help students create their questions.[|Writing software]litlift,Inkwriter can help students do their written assignments. Powerpoint, ted talk can be a slide presentations,vine, you tube vimo can also act like instagram can act like movie tools where the students can create their movies. Via think link the students can create interactive posters to share on line , The important part of summative assessment is the instructor's feed back. Their feed back has to have some elements to follow. They are part of0an essential source for learning. They can follow [|the rise feedback model.] Most of the teachers already unconsciously do this in the classroom. They should and can make and effort withsetting up a rubrics. This will laso help the students evaluate themselves in a postive constructive way than mere grades.