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This module is about using technology for assessments and grading. Enjoy!

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Here is a video including information on different assessment systems used by the surrounding school districts, as well as some alternatives for districts that have not established a relationship with one yet!

https://youtu.be/c7_XxBelvN8

This video was created with a mixture of Quicktime video (screen capture) and Camtasia!  (More info in Camtasia in Module 3!)

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If your school district does not have a contract with a data assessment company that allows you to create assessments, print scantrons (etc) and run data reports, many teachers opt to use ZipGrade (limited free version or $7 yearly).  ZipGrade allows you to customize scantrons.  Grade using your webcam, phone, or tablet!

For a demonstration, watch this video!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKkXnhflzkw

Grading written assessments is more difficult.  For essays, there are a few technologies that look for duplicates and plagiarism.  While this is not a grading tool, per se, students are more tempted to cheat in the upper grades due to stress (for college, etc).:

plagiarismchecker.com
turnitin.com
Duplichecker

These services are different in significant ways.  Some of these websites compare pieces of student work to one another, others compare student work to passages on the internet.  Some look at paragraphs, some look at individual sentences. Some are free, some are not.

Turnitin is the most advanced out of these tools, however it must be purchased by a school site (not available nor cheap for individual teachers). Additionally, Turnitin, being the most advanced tool, has assessed false positives of plagiarism, so teacher verification is highly recommended.  That said, it is a useful tool department-wide to ensure students in separate classes/period are not cheating.

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No matter what assessment system your district uses, analyzing data will be the most important function.  Use these sample assessment results to analyze students' results.
(1)  Determine which questions were most frequently missed by all students, and which questions were missed by students who did not perform well overall.
(2) Identify most frequently-picked wrong answers for these tricky questions.  (If this was your assessment, you would identify specific misunderstandings in the future, too.  However, you don't have access to this assessment specifically, so just identify the most-frequently picked wrong answers.)

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Formative assessments are incredibly important to tracking student performance.  Most classroom activities are informal formative assessments. This video explores the way in which technology can be engaging for students and efficient for teachers.  How can technology help provide you more insight?

https://youtu.be/E19f3oXKUjc

This video was created with a mixture of Quicktime video (screen capture) and Camtasia!  (More info in Camtasia in Module 3!)

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Here are some examples of formative assessment activities. As discussed in the previous video, some platforms are better suited for certain levels of Bloom's, etc.  Some of these are teacher-created, and others are just some of my favorites!

Kahoot Exemplars (best for vocabulary and identification, paced as group):
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/3d75eb62-4c3a-4cc6-a915-51a9decb015b

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/72f022a4-f4b7-4717-adf7-686098a4b5df

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/2068a3f6-2f5b-44ab-975d-c6a1eb936949

Quizziz Exemplars (best if diagrams or long answers are necessary, paced as individual):
https://www.quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5a66527cfdbe82001b14a959
https://www.quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5a6096eba1dc96001e892ab2
https://www.quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5a60ad39e3bea3001d93429e

Socrative Exemplars (best for including explanations, paced as individual):
https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#import-quiz/32482200

Desmos Exemplars:
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5605bb5f00701ed10fb09314
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/564a325345d9115d06270607

Module 1's lesson-planning materials also have a lot of resources for formative assessments as well!

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Create or find a formative assessment ("activity") that you could use in the following couple weeks in your class!  When it comes to using technology, there are four "ways" to integrate it into your classroom (see attached image).
Substitution
Augmentation
Modification
Redefinition

Think about which level of technology integration is the best for an upcoming formative assessment in your classroom.  Platforms like Kahoot, Quizizz, Socrative are great resources but tend to hover around substitution and augmentation. Interactive platforms like Desmos (teacher.desmos.com) are more interactive and incorporate critical thinking into their activities.  Also, don't forget about the Open Educational Resources provided in Module 1!

When you find a formative assessment you would like to try in class, share the link with other students on the discussion forum, and explain what makes this tech platform the most appropriate for your learning objective or unit of study (how does the platform itself support the level of Bloom's / Depth of Knowledge you want to observe).

Also, note that some of these platforms also have grading functions as well!

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Google Forms as Summative Assessments Video (8 min)

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Google Forms as Summative Assessments Video (8 min)

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Google Forms, Apps and Classroom are incredibly popular amongst teachers and districts.  Having Google behind these products also gives a sense of security for teachers when they choose to invest their time into creating tech-embedded materials.  (Sometimes, I worry that other free websites and apps will realize they can charge for their products, and then I will lose everything I have created!)

This video focuses on creating a Google Form to use as a formative assessment.  (Embedding a Google Form will be covered further in Module 3!)

https://youtu.be/ssUZs_CxO-Y

This video was created with a mixture of Quicktime video (screen capture) and Camtasia!  (More info in Camtasia in Module 3!)

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Below, you will find links to videos and articles that will allow you to enhance your Google Forms!

Skip or Logic Branching - this is useful if you do not want your form to be linear for all users.  For example, you can create a form such that a student who answers incorrectly is sent to a section for a reteach before returning and answering again.  Or, perhaps some questions build on each other, depending on a user's previous answer.

Video #1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaA7aTgA_Rc)

Video #2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaA7aTgA_Rc)

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Create an assessment using Google Forms that includes logic branching, and post it to the discussion forum for other students to take.  Fill out the other google forms that have been posted as well.