Module 5 Reflection

This module has helped me think about student-centered assessment in the following ways:

Philosophers, educators, and administrators continue to talk about constructive teaching and student-centered instruction. This is the type of instruction that keeps students involved in their learning process. Of course this instruction should be supplemented by constant student-centered assessments. However, a lot of teachers continue to give their students assessments that are direct models of standardized tests.

This particular module made me realize that my rubrics must be tailored to the students understanding-not just a group of words that can be distinctly defined by me. Students should have a definitive idea of what they are expected to produced. This gives students an outline, allowing them to work towards the goal presented and not expected. The student ultimately becomes an agent in his or her grading process. This benefits the teacher, because now the student is getting the concepts that he/she (the teacher) meant to be grasped.

Module 4 Reflection

How can technology be used most effectively to support and assess student learning?

Technology (new technology) provides several avenues for teachers and students. One of those avenues is innovative and fun assessments. Tools such as clickers provide an opportunity for games like Jeopardy, or any of the similar games, to help assess students knowledge. Blogs are also great tools for keeping logs and assessing students progress. More importantly, technology is not only saving the trees but it is saving time. Most technological tools or assessments create rubrics, graphs, and different score charts that show results just as fast as the students input the information. This saves teachers a lot of time, which in turn gives them more time to mediate and assess their students progress. It is effective in saving time and creating an assessment that students will truly enjoy completing.