Elyse Whitt's List: Assessment Article Search

• Technology can help teachers track and assess their students' -- as well as their own -- performance in the classroom
• facilitate communication between students and teachers and to create digital records of student growth and development that can easily be passed along from grade to grade.
• teachers can use spreadsheets to track student work and also track their teaching plans
• The Internet is another tool that can be used to communicate about assessment, evaluation and curriculum redesign with the wider community.
• Technology gives us a way to get feedback continually during the teaching process, instead of at the end of the teaching process -- when you end up with only a retrospective understanding.
• Diagnoser
• designed to give teachers insight into a student's conceptual understanding of high school science.
• sks a series of questions, which are designed to test deep understanding.
• Technology can also be used in the production of portfolios.
• Students can use scanners, digital photographs, and computer-generated movies as part of a multi-media portfolio
• One of the advantages of a digital, multi-media portfolio is that it can be made available to a variety of communities
• Continual feedback between teachers and students generates a way of teaching that is very different from the traditional approach

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• The key is to understand what effective assessment is, know the tools available, and create balance in the classroom for instructional decision making. 
• Surveys and evaluation tools are a great way to collect data to determine the direction of the building
• The use of Google Forms allows administrators to get feedback and analyze data.
• These have many educational uses, including surveying staff for school improvement data, online quizzes for students, or gathering feedback for professional development.
• Zoomerang allow you to create surveys with a variety of questions, but it also allows you if you have the Pro version to import the information directly into PowerPoint, create custom branding, use skip logic, and create charts and graphs from the data.
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  Survey Monkey has over a dozen types of questions to choose from when creating a survey.
• ready made templates, results can be downloaded quickly into a spreadsheet, all langauges are supported, and the questions can be randomized when purchasing the Pro version
• ree online voting application that uses cell phones to collect responses.
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   PollEverywhere
• People vote anonymously via text with some phones bypassing the text messaging fees.
• Results come in within 2-5 seconds and can be presented in a graphical format or downloaded into a spreadsheet/chart or presentation format.
• Teacher Evaluation Tools
• Consider how technology is changing teacher evaluation with Principals doing walk throughs with iPads or laptops.
• McCREL system.
• Instead of a subscription system, consider how the technology tools at your fingertips could be used to create an online walk through system

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• States have slowly begun to adapt new technologies, such as the Internet, to student testing.
• Just over half the states, for instance, use computers to deliver a portion of the annual state testing programs mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
• Technology, however, has the potential to do more than just make our current approach to testing more efficient.
• A growing number of testing and learning experts argue that technology can dramatically improve assessment—and teaching and learning.
• formation technology can both deepen and broaden assessment practices in elementary and secondary education,
• hese new technology-enabled assessments offer the potential to understand more than whether a student answered a test question right or wrong. Using multiple forms of media that allow for both visual and graphical representations, we can present complex, multi-step problems for students to solve, and we can collect detailed information about an individual student's approach to problem solving.
• allow educators to better comprehend how students arrive at their answers and learn what those pathways reveal about students' grasp of underlying concepts, as well as to discover how they can alter their instruction to help move students forward.
• But technology alone cannot transform assessment. Fundamentally changing our approach to testing in our public education system would not be easy.
• Logistical and funding challenges that often impede efforts to maintain, administer, and update schools' technological infrastructure would have to be overcome.
• New assessment models must not erode efforts to promote high expectations for all students; nor should they disadvantage low-income schools and students with currently limited access to technology. And new approaches to assessment would have to be aligned with standards, curricula, professional development, and instruction to be successful.

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