Technology and Assessment
ISLT-9458
Course Description
Learn how to assess specific types of knowledge, using technology to enhance the process. Explore innovative tools and means of assessment that help teachers individualize and differentiate instruction to improve learning. Develop technology-enhanced assessment of student learning.
Reflection
In taking this course, I reinforced many understandings about how to approach assessment in my classroom. Backward design has long been a standard practice in special education, where I began my teaching career, so this course was a nice refresher in those principles. In the special education field, we believe that it is critical for teachers to understand how a student can best express their understanding of topics, and give opportunities for students to demonstrate what they have learned in their own best way. While there is still a lot of controversy about how we approach testing in the education field as a whole, it seems that much of the field is coming around to the idea that students are not standardized.
In my practice, I will take the knowledge and understanding I developed through this course and continue to ask essential questions of myself and my students. What will the world look like for my students when they graduate from high school? What skills will they be expected to perform? What kind of thinking will they be expected to do? How can I best prepare them through digital literacy? The answers to these questions are changing all the time, and continually investigating, changing course, and reflecting on change is truly the most exciting part of the job for me.
In my practice, I will take the knowledge and understanding I developed through this course and continue to ask essential questions of myself and my students. What will the world look like for my students when they graduate from high school? What skills will they be expected to perform? What kind of thinking will they be expected to do? How can I best prepare them through digital literacy? The answers to these questions are changing all the time, and continually investigating, changing course, and reflecting on change is truly the most exciting part of the job for me.