Focus Question- How can teachers evaluate and assess student's learning?
Teachers can use tests before, during and after a lesson to evaluate the knowledge of each individual students. Teachers tend to teach the way they were taught, many do not realize beside testing there are many other ways to evaluate what students gained from their lesson. Creative writing, conversations, and group work do not always come to mind as a way to assess the the information they learned. Standardized tests are used from kindergarden to twelfth grade to test students, to confirm their understand the material in order to compare the score to other students. The scores are use to see if they are above, on or below grade level. While technology is use to accurately to measure the performance of each student, it is criticize that it leaves no room for the teacher to teach, but to teach-to-the-test-curriculum.
Tech tool- Rubric
Creating a rubric to fairly grade the work of every student in a class can be vey time consuming. It can also be an advantage to students and teacher, students get to know ahead of time what is required of them and it makes grading easier on the teacher. This website is very resourceful to educators no matter what the subject they are teaching. There are already made rubrics but you can also customize the rubric to how it apply to your assignments.
Summary and Personal Connection
This chapter is about the technology that goes into designing, grading and developing lesson plans as an educator. While technology can be an advantage it can also be a disadvantage in some cases. Teachers tend to get a little lazy when it comes to planning and creating test or assignments. In high school and even college, assignments were given to me and all I had to do was type in the first question in google and the answer was right there. In some cases you can even get the whole assignment and the answers. Technology can make teachers lazy and too dependent on it.
Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2010).Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn & Bacon.
Rubistar is a great time-saver! Knowing how to create a rubric on your own first is also important (i.e., your website evaluation rubric assignment!). It is kind of like understanding the math concepts versus just punching numbers in a calculator to get an answer! :)
ReplyDeleteAny answer that is "Google-able" is not indicative of a good question on a test, etc. Developing assignments that make students 'think' is the important and quality point. So it is okay, in my opinion, for teachers to look for another's lesson plans, but then it still takes thought by the teacher to review/edit it for their own classroom situation...and to be sure it is not 'Google-able'! :)