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(Kendra Cage)
EDU 225
(June 21, 2015)
Instructor Christensen

Part 1: Assessment Technology (150-250 words).

The quiz that I made was made for my students to use as a Summative Assessment. I want this
quiz to be taken after the information and criteria is taught to the class because I want to see
exactly what they know afterwards. I also want to see what extra helps needs to be taught. Some
students may or may not have grasped on a certain concept in the History part that I taught, but I
want to be able to give them the extra help and spend a lot more time on that subject.

The answers to the quiz I made are as follows- C, A, D, B, D, A, D, C,B. Going over these every
day in class and also at home will help the students understand the information better. A
Summative Assessment is usually high in high point value, like a mid-term, final, huge project,
or an end of course test.

Part 2: Blog Post

Introduction (4-6 Sentences):
Software can be supportive in a various amount of ways. Software that has come out on
the market can do things that are beneficial in the classroom for teachers, students, and parents.
Software helps learning become easier for the learning process. Software can also help students
ability to learn the material and curriculum easier.
Technology to Facilitate Ongoing Efforts to Assess Student Learning (150-200 words)
Technology facilitates the assessments because it is one way people learn and understand
these days. Its much more covenant and it is there in a blink of an eye. Software is easy because

you can just sit in front of a computer screen and learn from it. Software teaches not only just
one learning style, but all. Software gives off great information that students are able to carry
with them through their lifetime.
(Think Gate) I found this website that seemed very neat. As a teacher, it is very useful.
You can administer, create, and report the information into the software and it makes everything
much easier for both the teacher and student.http://www.thinkgate.com/solutions/assessment
(Marin) The second website that I found very useful for some students
was http://www.marin.edu/SLO/. The website provided good insight on learning assessments.
It is a colleges website and they seem very in depth with the teaching and learning of Student
Learning Outcomes. They are helpful in their students learning, as well as their teachers career.
You could use this site in a classroom to help utilize the students learning assessment.
(Netop) The last website that I thought was very beneficial for this question
was http://www.netop.com/. This too is another site that can be used to assessing students and
adding extra help and guidance in the classroom. You can set-up many online things that will
benefit the students in your classrooms learning process. Quizzes, polls, surveys, assessments,
materials and lessons are intrigued through this site.

(Formative and Summative Assessments) (100-150 words)

Both Formative and Summative assessments can be used in the classroom. They both would be
helpful to the student, teacher, and also the parents. As parents, knowing your childs progress
and how their doing is important. If they need the extra help somewhere throughout the school
year, it will be easy to identify if the parent helps. Formative will be easily done because this is
where you want to see what the student actually knows before going over the material.

Summative assessment is done after the material is explained and taught. Summative is great
because it allows everyone (including officials at the school) to see where all the children may
need the extra help in the following years.

(Pros and Cons of using Technology to Facilitate Assessment) (200 words)

There are two major pros to using technology to assess student learning. First, assessing student
learning via computer is faster and more efficient than doing it in other ways. Computers can
simply score student work as the students take assessments. This means that teachers do not
have to take the time to grade the tests themselves. Second, assessing student learning via
computer is more objective than doing it in other ways. If human beings grade student
assessments, they are likely to have problems being fair. They might grade a particular test badly
based on their mood, or the fact that they are hungry, or the fact that the student has bad
handwriting. Computers are not subject to such problems and all assessments will be graded
objectively.
The main con to doing this is that tests that can be given by computer are inherently limited.
These tests have to be multiple choices. Computers cannot, at this point, judge written answers.
They cannot judge projects that students submit. They can only grade such things as multiple
choice or true/false questions or questions where the answer is a number. This severely limits the
sort of subject matter that can be tested and the sorts of skills that can be tested.

(Should a teacher only use technology to assess student learning? Why or why not?)

Using technology only or analog teaching only, limits the student's skills and potential abilities
tremendously. As Howard Gardner demonstrated in his study of multiple intelligences (MI)
(1989), there are nine strengths under which students can perform and excel academically.
Technology is only one of several teaching processes from which students can learn. Even in the
digital age, there are bound to be students that may prefer to learn through manual skills such as
arts and crafts, others through poetry or literature, others may even prefer to problem solve
mathematically, and there is always the odd percent of students who suffer from "Technostress"
and get frustrated too quick if the technology is too complicated, or not fast enough for their
taste.

What is the importance of assessment technology in connection with the ISTE standards?
Using technology can change things up tremendously. Technology is surrounded in every
corner and center of the world today. Children are more familiar with technology now than they
were fifty years ago. Learning from technology would be more out to benefit them rather than
just using the old school stuff and not making learning exciting or interesting. If the teacher had
just had students with one type of learning style then that could be necessary. Abusing the ability
to use the tool can be a bad thing. Technology also gives you many different options and back-up
plans in case the others fall threw. Technology is covenant and easily brought up.
Concluding Paragraph for Software to Support Assessment
Formative assessment and Summative assessment are both benefiting inside the
classroom. Teaching students and knowing their strengths and weaknesses are the pin point on
where an educator like a teacher need to step in and address the weaknesses again until every

student understands the material. Technology is great for the classroom on everyones part.
Teachers can benefit technology from finding great ways to share the lessons with the class and
making learning fun, and students are benefiting from technology can grasping the information
in way that they will be able to take it and understand it for a lifetime.

References
www.netop.com

www.marin.edu/SLO/
www.thinkgate.com/solutions./assessment
b.socrative.com/teacher/# my-quizzes (The Quiz that I created)