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EDU 225
February 14, 2016
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Part 1: Assessment Technology

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Part 2: Blog Post
Technology to Support Assessment
The importance of student-centered technology in the classroom is
becoming the best resource for a teacher to be able to assess students to
provide the best support in a students learning process. Technology
combined with the traditional teaching methods is making learning fun and
exciting for students today. Anyway to motivate and engage a child in
learning is a positive approach for all children to be successful. Technology to
support the assessment process is making teaching a more informative tool
for teachers to provide the best way of assessing each students individual
abilities and the classroom as a whole. There are many resources to help
educators to become technology literate to help assess their students
weaknesses and strengths. Technology is making a brighter future for all who
are involved with todays technology.
Technology to Facilitate Ongoing Efforts to Assess Student
Learning
Technology today to assess student learning is becoming the future of
all educators. Teachers today need to educate themselves to facilitate the

ongoing efforts to assess student learning in the classroom. Teachers need to

learn about all of the resources that are available to them on web-based sites
that will empower them to utilize the resources that are available for them
and their coworkers. Technology can be facilitated by using formative and
summative assessments. Data collection and data analysis used in todays
software can facilitate the ongoing effort to assess student learning. All
students learn differently so having a variety of assessment tools will help
the teacher to provide reliable resources for each student. Working together
teachers can combine their knowledge of the software that is available to
facilitate assessment for their students learning in the classroom.
Edmodo
Edmodo is an educational website that gives teachers and students
assess to millions of users. A teacher can assess numerous tools which
facilitates learning and collaboration for students within a classroom, and
with students from other classrooms. (Dobler, 2012). A teacher just needs to
open an account and teachers can connect with other teachers and students
can connect with other students around the world. A teacher can use this
website to provide experiences with other children. Students access
Edmondo only through a teachers account and a class code that the teacher
shares with parents so that parents can see the safety of the site.
Socrative
Socrative is a web-based online assessment and student response
tool. It enables teachers to create activities than connect to multiple devices

such as iPad, laptops and smartphones. Socrative can be used as a student

engagement tool and as either a formative or summative assessment
mechanism.(Deichman,2014).Teachers and students are able to
communicate and respond to questions on their devices. A great resource for
teachers that Socrative offers is a bank of quizzes that can be shared among
other educators.
Padlet

Padlet is a collaborative interactive web-based educational tool for

teachers and students. This resource can be used to create lesson plans,
digital portfolios, vocabulary list, multimedia projects, assignment postings,
collaborative group work and brainstorms, teacher or peer feedback, book
review, video discussions, journals, blogs and much more. (Shields, 2014).
This technology tool is engaging and motivates students to want to learn.
(Formative and Summative Assessments)
The difference between formative and summative assessment is that
formative assessment is an ongoing assessment that teachers do daily by
observing their students individually or in group settings. Observing children
and seeing where their strengths and weaknesses are will help the teacher in
the assessment process. Formative assessment is helpful for the teacher to
adjust instruction as needed. The teacher can observe or provide fluency
test, or it may be a full assessment. Formative assessment is the beginning
process of finding out where each students level of abilities are. A

summative assessment is given at pre-determined intervals. It could be state

testing or a benchmark test. Summative testing is assessing the knowledge
of students at a particular point in time. Using both forms of assessment can
give teachers an overall success rate of each child as the child is learning
and by showing the overall results of how all children learn by teachers
following the core standards. Summative assessment is the end results of the
lesson taught and how the overall expectations of each students abilities
were performed. Using tools such as Edmondo, Socrative and Padlet will help
teachers utilize the technology resources available to them for formative and
summative assessment.

Pros and Cons of using Technology to Facilitate Assessment

The pros of using technology to facilitate assessment are seeing the
positive results of students abilities and how educators can build on their
students abilities and challenge the students who are above grade level. It
helps students to become engaged and provides deeper learning
experiences and it helps the teacher to clarify marking criteria. The cons of
using technology to facilitate assessment is the assess ability and the
financial concerns of current technology tools that are used in the school
districts today. There are many pros and cons of determining if technology
should facilitate assessment. Teachers need to rely on a variety of
assessment tools, both in a physical sense and technological, to better
assess students in the 21st. century.

Conclusion
Technology assessment Software to support assessments are
important learning tools for educators today. Technology used for assessment
and teaching tools will help teachers assess students abilities and it will
benefit the students success by providing accurate assessments. Teachers
using creative websites will enable teachers and students to learn in many
multiple ways. Having access to web-based interactive online assessment
tools will help in the success of teachers and students today.

References
Deichman, J. (2014). Socrative 2.0. Knowledge Quest, 43(2), 72-73.
Dobler, E. (2012). Flattening Classroom Walls: Edmodo Takes
Teaching and Learning across

the Globe. Reading Today,

29(4), 12-13.
Shields, J. (2014). VIRTUAL TOOLKIT. Screen Education, (75), 92-93.