Catlin Tucker
MARCH 11, 2024
This inquiry always prompts me to reflect: How many educators gather pre-assessment data before crafting their lesson plans? Such preliminary insights, whether through pre-assessments, diagnostics, or activities aimed at accessing prior knowledge, can illuminate the diverse range of skills, abilities, and needs within a classroom.
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OCTOBER 5, 2023
Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding. While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group.
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Blendsapce –if you create your lesson plans in BlendSpace, it includes opportunities to assess learning. Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app). Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app). Gimkit –gamified assessment, like Kahoot; freemium. ThatQuiz.org.
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APRIL 13, 2020
Of late, the most common question is, “How to I assess student digital literacy?” How do I assess faculty digital literacy so I can teach them what they don’t know?” Today, I want to focus on the need to assess digital literacy and what tools are available to do this. Why assess it?
The Web20Classroom
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
This week we look at Formative Assessment, how it works and why it can be a powerful tool no matter what your teaching and learning looks like. Traditionally, teaching has been a one-way enterprise with the teacher dispelling knowledge for a period of time and then assessing what the students know either through a quiz or test.
Catlin Tucker
MARCH 1, 2021
The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. The more formative assessment data a teacher collects, the more effective they’ll be in differentiating learning experiences to meet a diverse group of students’ needs.
Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 12, 2020
Similarly, teachers hosting video conferencing sessions will want to consider whether whole group, small group, or individual sessions make the most sense given the purpose of that session. Build time into your video conferencing sessions to allow students to mute their mics and put pen to paper.
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