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The document discusses using technology to support assessment in the classroom. It notes that today's students are growing up immersed in technology, so using technology to assess students aligns with their learning styles. Formative and summative assessments can both be administered through educational technology tools and websites. This allows teachers to collect student data and track progress more efficiently while engaging students. However, technology assessments also have limitations such as potential malfunctions or costs. The document concludes that classrooms should use a balanced approach of both traditional and technology-based assessments to fully support student learning.

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Section 5

The document discusses using technology to support assessment in the classroom. It notes that today's students are growing up immersed in technology, so using technology to assess students aligns with their learning styles. Formative and summative assessments can both be administered through educational technology tools and websites. This allows teachers to collect student data and track progress more efficiently while engaging students. However, technology assessments also have limitations such as potential malfunctions or costs. The document concludes that classrooms should use a balanced approach of both traditional and technology-based assessments to fully support student learning.

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Jordan Krueger

April 10th, 2015


EDU 225
Professor Elliot
Section 5: Technology to Support Assessment
Mastery of classroom concepts is often a demonstrated ability, in order to assess each
students level of understanding and mastery of the subject or topic being taught the teacher must
know how to effectively facilitate formative and summative assessments to their students. In this
ever changing and technology advancing society we live in comes a generation of children whom
are growing up with technology all around them, therefore turning their learning abilities to
center around technology, due to its reliability to their lives. By assessing our student through the
use of technology whether it a be formative or summative teacher will be able to collect data and
test their students through something they relate more to these days, being careful to also include
other forms of assessment teachers will be able to adapt better to their student learning style and
speed.
Teachers are using a vast variety of educational assessment tools to calculate their
students learning understanding and mastery. The tools they use can be either made by the
teacher or created by the board of education. Each tool differs based upon the class size it is
taught in. According to Ashiq Hussain, Educational technologies have changed the scenario of
developing assessment tools. The main objectives of the educational tools are to decide what you
want your students to learn and making sure they learn it. The main sources of guidelines are
respective curriculum and framework. Curriculum is created to measure students learning
while framework sets up the foundation and guidelines of what are to be taught (Assessment

Model, 2011). It is important when considering use of technology to assess students that they are
valid and reliable tools, unbiased and meet the demands of the schooling standards. Technology
assessment tools using various kinds of educational software creates a much faster and more
productive vice in which teachers can record their students achievements in their class.
Technology can facilitate the ongoing effort to assess student learning in ways through websites
such as Conquest, Study Island, and ClassDojo. These websites allow the teachers as well as the
students to know their scores at a faster pace and to know what needs to be changed to be
successful to the best of their ability. There are two types of assessments in which can be tested
through the traditional route as well as technologically; formative and summative. Formative
Assessment is used to monitor students learning and give all stakeholders, students, their parent,
and teachers throughout each lesson used to improve learning and instruction (Formative vs.
Summative). Some examples of this type of assessment on the technology front would be
websites such as Polleverywhere, online practice tests, jeopardy, and SMART board activities
within a lesson. Summative assessments are the more serious and final projects given at the end
of each unit or lesson. Technology wise summative assessment can be given in ways such as tests
administered online, submitting final papers to an online portfolio. This way as soon as the
student submits the assignment they will be able to view their score for the rest of their schooling
careers as well as schools and jobs they apply to later.
Bill Tucker states that, Students today are growing up in a world overflowing with a
variety of high-tech tools, from computers and video games to increasingly sophisticated mobile
devices. And unlike adults, these students don't have to adjust to the information ageit will be
all they've ever known (Tucker, 2009). Thus, proving to those born in prior generations, such as
their teachers that it is indeed a pro when using technology to assess their students learning. A
second pro being that they become more active participants in each classroom setting that

provides technological assessment because it is more on their speed per-say. On the other side
or con of this method of assessing is that technology can have its malfunctions at times as well as
being pricey making it harder for low incomes school to have access to device such as these.
Ultimately I believe that classroom should have a mixture of both traditional as well as
technology based assessment administered throughout the year. Creating a good balance between
the two methods will allow students to be skilled in both. Not to mention teachers will be able to
see them from different lights so as not to just assess them one certain way, diversity in
assessment is key. As for the ISTE Standards, connecting assessment technology to these
standards will make sure that students are able to think critically, problem solve, and be creative
in their schooling and life around them.

References

Formative vs Summative Assessment - Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation Carnegie Mellon University. (n.d.). Retrieved April 10, 2015, from
https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/basics/formative-summative.html
Hussain, A., Azeem, M., Nawaz, S., & Mehmood, A. (2011). Assessment Model: How to Assess
Students' Learning?. International Journal Of Science In Society, 2(4), 85-97.
ISTE Standards For Students. (2007). Retrieved April 10, 2015, from
http://www.iste.org/standards/standards-for-students
ISTE Standards For Teachers. (2007). Retrieved April 10, 2015, from
http://www.iste.org/standards/standards-for-teachers

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