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Assessment Technology Lessons

Our first "major" project is to create, and to differentiate an assessment using Google Forms for at least three sub-groups of students. I cannot reiterate enough: this assignment is to use traditional and technology tools to differentiate ONE assessment in THREE ways, not to create three assessments about three different topics.

Week 3: Asynchronous, Digital Week!

9/6/2021 - 9/10/2021


Assessment Technology and Technology Reflection Overview

Today, we'll answer some of the "big" questions about what it means to assess students digitally. There are advantages and disadvantages to digital assessment. I won't pretend digital assessment are unconditionally better, but the conditions you set, and the assessments you create are of paramount importance when moving forward into the digital classrooms we'll all inhabit in the near future. We'll also get a glimpse into how every homework assignment will build into an incredibly valuable technology tool to help you get hired as a teacher.
Our first assignment is to create, and to differentiate an assignment using at least two software tools, for at least three sub-groups of students. I cannot reiterate enough: this assignment is to use traditional and technology tools to differentiate ONE assessment in THREE ways, not to create three assessments.

Introduction to Your Assessment Technology Project:

In a project about differentiation, it's pretty important that as a professor, I also practice what I preach. The videos and projects below are separated for future teachers, and future SLP practitioners. Make sure to watch the correct video, and access the correct resources.
Future Teachers Watch the Video Below
Teacher's Assessment Technology Project Page
Future SLPs Watch the Video Below
SLP's Assessment Technology Project Page
Regardless of which video you watched, you'll find a question to answer on Google Classroom: basically, summarize what you need to accomplish for your assessment technology project, and what did you notice about the student examples and commentaries found on each project page. While Google Questions can have an informal, conversational tone, your response should be a solid paragraph long, and should include specific references to both the video you watched and the specific student projects you analyzed.

Digital Assessment Overview

In this overview of digital assessments, we'll look at the two main types of digital assessments, and break down the classroom applications of each. One is not better than the other, as with all things, the trick is finding the appropriate tool for the application.

After reading the Slides (or just watching the video and listening, you'll respond to the questions found in the Padlet linked to the right.
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We'll also delve into how digital assessments are uniquely qualified to offer differentiated services to students without bias, and without anyone knowing.
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Introduction to the 5 Tenets of Literacy

In order to create effective, technology-based literacy assessments, it's also important to understand what literacy means, so we'll take some time looking at the components of literacy that you could assess. Literacy applies to all subject areas, all grade levels, all topics, and everything. We take for granted that we're a literate society in which everyone can read. 

After you've watched the video and learned about the five components of literacy you can possibly assess during this project, answer the Google Question you find on our Google Classroom and share which components of literacy you plan to assess for your project and why.
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Homework

​​Due at 3:59 (before class starts) on 9/13 and 9/15/2021

Add a section on your Technology Reflection page sharing how information about Padlet.
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Technology Reflection Project Page

Week 4: 9/13 & 9/15/2021


​How to Write Questions / Answers [Standards]

Students take for granted that multiple-choice assessments have four answer options every time. They never realize that teachers need to write those answers. We love to criticize that two answers both seemed right, without realizing that a teacher wrote those two options intentionally to figure out which students were achieving above grade level, and which students were performing at grade level. Writing multiple choice questions and answers is an art and a science. My wife, an amazing and experienced teacher, still makes me write her multiple choice answer options because it's part of my "dorky super powers." 

​Last, but not least, we'll review the CCLS,  and the Next Gen Standards, and how to utilize them in your digital assessments.
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Break!


Low-Stakes Practice Forms

For all our primary software besides Weebly, we start out with a low-stakes version of the real deal. For this assignment, we'll start out with a basic Form about anything in the world that's interesting to you. We'll insert one of every question, and one of every structure. Advanced Forms tools are available here if you're yearning for that "A."
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Homework

​Due at 9/20 & 9/22/2021

We'll continue working towards our Technology Reflection project for homework this week. You'll create a new section on your Slides presentation about two additional software: Plickers. While I shared a video tutorial, a you'll need to devote a little time to practicing with the software to create an informed section about it.
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Watch the video tutorial above to learn about Plickers.

Week 5: 9/20 & 9/22/2021


Forms Differentiation

We'll take an in-depth look at how Forms (our primary web tool for this unit) can work to differentiate material for different students. Using digital assessment tools is all about finding that middle ground between the software's strengths and abilities, and your students' strengths and abilities. It's a delicate dance that some teachers master, and other teachers ignore entirely, content to claim that "these students" are worse than "other students." 
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Commentary Sentence Frames

Today we'll learn how, and why commentaries are part of our course work. As a teacher, you will be questioned about the choices you make, and you want to be well practiced in supporting the decisions you make with as much evidence and educational fortitude as it's possible to muster. Today, we'll use Plickers to evaluate commentary examples.
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Commentary Sentence Frames
Real-Teacher Justification for Educational Commentary

On Google Classroom, write an effective description of a differentiation in which you add images to each multiple choice option. Include a specific reference to the change (you can be creative) the impact it will have on testing experience, and a specific reference to the expected benefit from the targeted subgroup.


Homework

Homework due before class on 9/27 & 9/29/2021:

Add a stection to your Technology Reflection webpage sharing the strengths and weaknesses of Google Forms as a software.
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Google Forms Tutorials

Week 6: 9/27 and 9/29/2021


Forms and Commentary Rubric Response Card Activity:

Before each writers workshop, we use an activity that has been wildly successful with students of all ages that I've taught. Essentially, you'll look at quotes and images from former students work and evaluate them using our actual project rubric.

​What this activity forces students to do is to familiarize themselves with the quality required of the different score points of our rubric, which in turn makes them more aware of what their project will score, and less likely to ask themselves "am I doing this completely wrong," during those last few minutes before the due date.
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Writers' Workshop

​Most of our class today will be devoted to a "writer's workshop." "Writer's workshops" live in quotations because in large part, you'll only sometimes write. You might be web designing, PowerPointing, Sliding, or Forming. Regardless of the ridiculous, fake verbs, the goal is the same: to offer you structured class time with the support of your peers and instructor to finish your projects.

This time is not optional. It is provided for technology and literacy coaching, questions specific to your exact technology project, and wording specific to your exact commentary.

Do not leave class early because you're "pretty sure you get it," only to email me at 11:49 with questions about your project.
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Homework: Complete Assessment Technology Project before class 10/4 & 10/6/2021


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