Thursday, April 11, 2013

Journal 11

CHAPTER 11 
ENGAGING TEACHERS and STUDENTS in LEARNING and SELF-REFLECTION

Focus Question 1: What is performance-based assessment for teachers and for students?

  • Teachers can use norm-referenced tests, criterion-referenced tests, standards-based assessments to evaluate their students. Supervisors can use these same assessments to evaluate their students.
  • Performance evaluation bases assessment on work completed rather than tests taken, including such performances areas as student writing, individual presentations and performances.
  • Performance evaluation has a dual focus for teachers-they are continually evaluating them.


In the act of learning, people obtain content knowledge, acquire skills, and develop work habits—and practice the application of all three to “real world” situations. Performance-based learning and assessment represent a set of strategies for the acquisition and application of knowledge, skills, and work habits through the performance of tasks that are meaningful and engaging to students.


Tech Tool: CPS Pulse Clicker from http://www.einstruction.com/cps-overview

 
(photo credit einstuction.com/cpsoverview)


  • Offers color-coded and easy-to-press buttons that make it intuitive for students to answer questions and participate in lessons.
  • CPS Spark™ supports multiple-choice, true-false and yes-no questions.
  • Seamlessly and automatically integrate with ExamView® to ensure you won’t lose images, answers, test banks, or data during assessment and grading.

Summary&Connection 

Chapter 11 looks at how teachers and students can participate in evaluating and assessing their own growth using technology. Teachers can use student participation systems to effectively assess by allowing each student in the class to answer a particular question.They “offer interactive learning options for teachers and students” (Maloy, et al., 2012, p. 318). These tools have numerous advantages: active learning, student involvement, real-time feedback, question-driven instruction. I used clickers before in high school as part of an exam tool. I liked it very much because I felt more engaged in what I was doing and it kind of made me excited about taking the test! Assessment tools like these are really cool to have for students it gets them open to different styles of taking tests and also comfortable.

 

Refrences

"CPS™ Student Response Systems." Welcome to EInstruction. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.
Maloy, R.W., Verock-O’Loughlin, R., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2012). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Pearson Education, Inc.








1 comment:

  1. Excited about taking a test - really? ;)

    Clickers will likely be replaced with web-based assessment tools that can do the same thing, but only need a mobile device. I do think you will begin to see that transformation within a year or two.

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