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P t2 ar D g t lA i i a geA s smen s es t A look at how technology use in formative assessments improves feedback and reporting opportunities. By Harry GroverTuttle O nce teachers have identified and shared the standards with students, instructed them via meaningful learning experiences, monitored their progress, and diagnosed learning strengths and gaps, they are ready to give feedback and report on student growth. This formative feedback directly helps students improve their performance. provide concept maps, specific textbook references, an interactive Internet site, or a Web-based iMovie. Explanations and supporting resources provide concrete formative suggestions for students’ improvement, not generic comments like “Read chapter 5.” demonstration to learn how to set it up correctly. Podcasts Often a teacher does not have time to give feedback to each student during class. However, as a high school art teacher looks over the students’ paintings, she can digitally record her feedback as she thinks aloud about each student’s work. Then she posts the podcasts to the district’s server and lets the individual students know the podcast’s Web address so that they can each listen to her feedback. iMovies Teachers and students can create iMovie demonstrations of proficient learning for feedback. A middle school science teacher watches one group of students successfully set up a lab. He asks if they can set it up again and explain each step as he records them. When he observes students in other groups who are less than proficient in setting up this particular lab, he asks them to watch the iMovie Feedback Wikis Using a wiki, students can learn from peers who share their success strategies. For example, as high school English students encounter problems in writing a contrast essay, they can post a quick message on a wiki such as PBwiki. As other students encounter the same learning roadblock, they can go to the wiki to see their classmates’ suggestions. They then receive feedback from their peers who typically word the solutions in very studentfriendly language. Online rubrics If a teacher wants to provide written feedback on her students’ work, she can use rubrics, checklists, or rating scales. She can take a generic online Onl ine cour se management Teachers can transform an online quiz into a formative assessment by creating an explanation for each correct answer in the ProProfs, Blackboard, or HotChalk course management systems. After elementary math students take a quiz, they immediately see the correct answer and the explanation for that correct answer. Teachers’ comments may include more than just a quick rule or phrase; they may 22 | www.techlearning.com TeAchnology’s rubrics builder is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and collaboration tool that can be aligned to standards-based learning criteria. http://www.techlearning.com

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