This article discussed ways that technology can be integrated into assessment, analysis, and evaluation. In the beginning it covered how we are to align teacher education coursework with standards. It also states, "we have noticed a consistent pattern of low scores in items related to using technology for assessment and evaluation." The purpose of this article was to show effective technology programs and devices that can be used for the CBE process of inquiry including the summative and formative evaluations.
The main points included this article are actually what I am learning in my SPED 467 class right now. My professor Dr. Ken Howell talks mainly about how what is tested should always reflect what is being taught and vice versa. As a pre-service teacher, this article gave me ease to know that there are many websites that can help me with assessment and limit my time and energy. Basically knowing that rubrics, graphs, grades, and reporting documents are already established gives me an already established file of helper tools that can help guide the Assessment Decision-Making process.
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I agree that the article was talking about stuff we have been learning in Ken's class, and agree that it is nice we don't have to create everything on our own.
ReplyDeleteBrittany,
ReplyDeleteYou made some good points in your blog! I think it's interesting how you related this to Ken's class because that is exactly what I thought of too. It was nice to see a strong connection made between the CBE process of evaluation, assessment, and analysis to the use of technology. This article gave us all a great resource to use in terms of helping us out with tools such as rubrics, graphs, grades, etc. as you said. Good thoughts :)
Brittany -
ReplyDeleteGood blog! I think another main point to be aware of is that though technology programs can help us in assessment, we can't rely on them! There are a lot of assessment tools that have pre-made objectives, and scoring devices, but how individualized is that? Not very. Though, for things like grading, or keeping record of student artifacts, I can see the use for technology. I liked the idea of a digital portfolio that can be kept forever without taking up space in a file cabinet.
You're right, the article does connect a lot with things Ken has taught us and it's nice to see the overlap of classes.