Module5+reflection

==//How has technology impacted or changed your classroom assessment and evaluation? Has your data collection methodology changed with technology? If technology has not impacted your assessment and evaluation, what would you like to change? Discuss technology and your own productivity and professional practice. //==

Description:
During these two weeks, I read the chapter 4 and 5 of ISTE Technology Facilitation and Leadership book. Also, I read my friends’ responses for the questions in the discussion board and some resources that were provided in the content area.

Impact:
In these two weeks, I recognized a variety of assessment technology tools through reading my friends’ posts and browsing the provided resources in the content area. There are many assessment tools that have versatile functions like QUIA and Hot Potatoes. For QUIA, the teachers can assess their students’ learning progress by creating variety of different assessment games whether the students will be in a group format like jeopardy games or an individual like matching or word search. Also, the teacher can create a normal quiz using it. For Hot Potatoes, the teachers can generate many different formats of quizzes like match, cross word, multiple choices…etc.

The assessment technology tools help the teachers to get a rigorous data about the students’ learning progress and also it saves a lot of time. There are some assessing tools that give immediately feedback to the students about their scores and do the task of calculating the students’ results immediately instead of the teachers.

The teachers should be careful in choosing the assessment technology tools that meet their needs. For example, the tools that assess the students’ level of competencies in reading skills will differ from the tools that evaluate the students’ knowledge of certain content.

Before implementing the assessment technology tool, the teacher should educate herself in how to use it. I had exposed to a situation that the teacher made an online quiz for us, and then our grades for that quiz disappeared. When we asked the teachers about this problem, she said that she tried to solve a problem in the program and grades disappeared. As a result, we will repeat the quiz again!

Also, I recognized some productivity tools through my reading like Google Docs and ProgressBook. The productivity tools help the students to engage in the learning process and stimulate their learning progress.

Intent:
 I will try to use many different technology tools that help me to assess and stimulate my students’ learning progress. I will use the tools according to their functions that meet my needs.