Technology can be used for formative and summative assessment in the classroom. Formative assessment tools include games, videos, quizzes and polls that provide real-time feedback to help identify gaps and improve learning. Summative assessment tools allow students to create projects like e-portfolios, websites, presentations and podcasts to demonstrate their understanding. Teachers have many online options for formative and summative assessments to engage students and evaluate comprehension.
2. TECHNOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT
Technology can be used for instant assessment in many ways,
such as tracking student progress over time. Educational
Technology can also be used to aid formative assessment:
helping to boost engagement, identifying knowledge gaps, and
support further/deeper learning.
3. Ways that educationl technology can be
used to aid learning and assessment in the
classroom
Students access and complete online
assessments at a time that best suits
their individual learning style and needs
Increase flexibility
Improve feedback
Allows teachers to assess
student comprehension in the
moment of learning
Recognize and cater for
differences
Technology designed for the
classroom makes this process easier
Consolodate learning
Students can use audio and
video tools to create podcasts
and presentations reviewing
their learning.
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5. Formative Assessment Tools
There are many types of online formative assessment tools
which allow for multitudes of formative assessment such as
gaming, video, slideshow, note card, sticky notes, text
dependent questions, wait?think time, drawing, painting,
graphic organization, learning/response logs, individual
whiteboarding, think-pair share, constructive quizzes,
kinesthetic assessments, etc.
8. Other Online Formative assessment
Possibilities
ExitTicket
Student response and
level system
Plickers
Rapid response
polling tool using
paper
GoSoapBox
Interactive real-time
discussion anonymously
if needed with a
confusion button.
Polleverwhere
Online polling
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13. Podcasting Tools
Podcasting is a multi-step process with
several options for recording podcasts
and hosting them online.
● Audacity – open software for
recording and editing sounds
● SoundCloud – website for sharing
and hosting audio files
● AudioBoom – website for sharing
and hosting audio files
● Freesound and SoundBible – free
sound effects
15. Given the number of elements involved in
multimedia presentation, instructors
might make use of rubrics to grade
students’ work.
Online Rubric Makers
• ForAllRubrics
• Rubistar
Grading Students’ Work
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How can technology be used for instant assessment?
Technology can be used for instant assessment; helping to boost engagement, identify knowledge gaps, and support deeper learning.
