Tara Cooper

EDU 225
7/26/2015
Instructor
David Larson

Part 1: Assessment Technology

Please go to the website www.socrative.com, there you will login as a student
using the password S3ERVQCP. You will take a math quiz over place value. There
are multiple choice and true/false questions; please do your best and think before
you answer. This quiz is a formative assessment to see how well you are learning
the content. Place value is difficult for some students. After the teacher reviews
the results, he/she will decide if the content needs to be, taught in a different way.
If every student passed the quiz, then the class can move on. If the content needs
taught again, the teacher will use the interactive whiteboard. Then the students
may play a fun game or form groups to sit down and the teacher will explain the
content again. A teacher will share the results of the formative test with each
student discretely and set some reachable, realistic goals for them to work on
before the next test.
Answer key for quiz: 1.B, 2.C, 3.F, 4.A, 5.D. Thank you for taking this quiz.
Part 2: Blog Post

Teachers can use technology as a tool to assess students in the classroom. There are
several different ways to assess student understanding through technology. A blog is a great way
to track student improvement and understanding throughout the year. Socrative.com allows
teachers to create quizzes in which they can observe the students answers in real time. Clickers
give teachers the opportunity to see if the students truly understand the information with
multiple-choice questions. Poll everywhere is an interactive tool for students to test their
knowledge of the presidents. Summative and formative assessments are two different ways to
test students knowledge. There are many pros and cons to assessing student understanding

using technology. Technology is a great way to help students learn and test their knowledge of
the information.
Technology to Facilitate Ongoing Efforts to Assess Student Learning
There are many ways for teachers to assess students with technology. Teachers have to
decide if the assessment is formative or summative. One possible way to assess students is with
a blog. Students can use ePortfolio.com, as one example to build blogs to write digital
portfolios. Another possible way to assess students is with socrative.com. Teachers can create
online quizzes, that can be used as a pre-test or post-test. The feedback can show the teacher,
each students learning level. For example, students can play a fun game called space race, a
game as groups or against each other. Flubaroo.com will grade the assignments automatically
and highlights which students mastered the content and which students need to review it again.
The quizzes are simple to construct and can be tagged with Common Core State Standards
objectives by clicking through the Socrative 2.0 interface to pull tags from the Common Core
State Standards Initiative website (Deichman, 2014)
Socrative.com: A teacher will make a quiz or quizzes over place value. The quiz will
consist of multiple choice, true/false or play a game called space race. As the students are taking
the quiz or quizzes, the teacher receives live results and knows what he/she needs to go over as a
class or individually according to the results. As answers are collated, the Socrative quiz
is an ideal information gathering tool (Ozdeniz, 2012). The teacher creates a polling

activity which the students can answer questions anonymously so if the student does not
understand the content, the other students will not know. The teacher sees in real time what all
of the students are thinking.

Clickers: The teacher will give multiple-choice questions about grammar punctuation
marks as in commas, exclamation points, question marks and periods, in order to assess and
evaluate every students understanding of punctuation marks. The students use their clicker to
answer the questions that appear on an interactive white board, the teachers computer receives
the results and then the computer makes a bar graph for the teacher to look at the data. This
formative assessment will give the teacher an idea of which students understand punctuation
marks, so the teacher can decide what punctuation marks to spend more time on and which ones
the class can skip if the students understood enough about it. Give both teacher and
students real-time feedback on learning effect (Stay, Neilson, Hansen-Nyarad
and Thorseth, 2010).

Poll Everywhere: A teacher is teaching a lesson on presidents, past and present. The
teacher is making a formative assessment to find out what students know about the presidents.
The teacher creates questions about the presidents for the students to answer using poll
everywhere. The questions appear on an overhead projector for all students to see. Every
student has a tablet that he or she will use to answer the questions. When all the students have
answered every question, the teacher shows the students in real-time how they did on the
questions. With the data collected, the teacher knows which presidents to discuss and which
presidents the students know. With poll everywhere, the answers are anonymous. Poll
Everywhere is an excellent way to encourage risk-taking with anonymous student responses.
It grabs the attention of students and increases participation and attentiveness (Stobaugh and
Gandy, 2014).
Formative and Summative Assessments
Formative is an assessment for the teacher to monitor each students
learning. Formative helps students find where their weaknesses and strengths are

and where they need to target their work. Teachers can see which student is
struggling and address any problems immediately. Formative assessment is also
used at the end of a sequence of instruction to provide an opportunity for students
to refine their thinking and reflect back on how their ideas have changed (Keeley,
2013). Summative is a way for the teacher to evaluate each students learning by
comparing it against a benchmark . Summative is high stakes and teachers usually take

grades. This study has shown that continuous assessment has the potential to support student
learning through feedback and to increase students motivation for learning (Hernandez, 2012).
Pros and Cons of using Technology to Facilitate Assessment
There are more pros then cons when using technology to facilitate assessment. Some of
the pros are assessments help improve student engagement and the elevation of profounder
thinking. There are more inventive and simpler ways to get things done. Online assessments
present information if a variety of ways that helps attracts the students attention. Online
assessments connect to real life issues. Students are more excited to learn because the
assessment is more entertaining. With online assessments, computers tally the students work as
the students take assessments. The computers are more efficient and faster than doing the
assessments by hand. Online assessments allow teachers to give frequent formative assessments,
which help students see where they need more help and what to study. The benefits of
formative assessment have been well recognized and research has shown that formative
assessment practices are supplementary with enhanced academic achievement (Baleni, 2015).
Some of the cons are assessments are costly in terms of money and time. Some websites used
for assessments require payment for their use. Teacher may not make test questions that are

grade appropriate for special education students. If the power goes out in the school building,
the teachers lose internet and cannot use online assessments.
Should a teacher only use technology to assess student learning? Why or why not?
A teacher needs to remember that not all students learn the same, students learn in
different capacities; therefore, they do not test the same. While most students will do well with
online assessments, some students will be stand offish or scared. Some students cannot use
laptops or IPads or they prefer to test with pencil and paper. Therefore, if a teacher only utilizes
one form of assessing, it limits each students options.
What is the importance of assessment technology in connection with the ISTE standards?
Assessment technology helps students understand and use technology systems in
reference to ISTE #6. Technology operations and concept (ISTE, 2015). Students need to
know how to use technology and doing assessments on laptops or IPads, teaches students this
important concept. Assessment technology also helps with identifying and define authentic
problems and significant questions for investigation in reference to ISTE #4. Critical thinking,
problem solving, and decision-making (ISTE, 2015). When students take quizzes online, this
teaches students how to solve the problems and ask questions about the answers they did not
know.
Concluding Paragraph for Software to Support Assessment
Technology is a very valuable tool when assessing the knowledge of the information that
they are learning. A blog is a great way to follow the progress of a student throughout the school
year. Socrative.com allows the teacher to see what information needs explained again and what
information is understood. Clickers help teachers to ask a question and receive responses
instantly. Poll everywhere is a fun way to quiz students on their understanding of subjects such

as the past and present presidents. Formative and summative assignments are two different was
to test student learning. There are many different pros and cons to using technology in order to
test student learning. Technology plays a huge role education and can help teachers assess
student knowledge.

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