Technology-Assisted Formative Assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 435-453
Author(s):  
Karen E. Irving
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formative Feedback ◽  
First Century ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Present Information ◽  
Electronic Technologies ◽  
Share Information

Reliable just-in-time assessments are the foundation of informed teaching and learning. Modern electronic technologies assist in the formative assessment process by supporting classroom environments that allow students and teachers to assess learning and providing mechanisms to present information about student learning during instructional sequences. To implement formative assessment practices, students and teachers benefit from rich educational tasks that invite students to share information about their understanding of the lesson while the lesson is occurring in order to nurture productive learning by both teacher and student. Formative feedback is facilitated by technologies such as connected classrooms, videography, online formative quizzes, and manuscript multi-draft editing. Technology-assisted formative assessment represents a powerful option to promote improved classroom communications that support formative assessment practices for teachers in twenty-first century classrooms.

Technology-Assisted Formative Assessment

2015 ◽  
pp. 380-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen E. Irving
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formative Feedback ◽  
First Century ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Present Information ◽  
Electronic Technologies ◽  
Share Information

Reliable just-in-time assessments are the foundation of informed teaching and learning. Modern electronic technologies assist in the formative assessment process by supporting classroom environments that allow students and teachers to assess learning and providing mechanisms to present information about student learning during instructional sequences. To implement formative assessment practices, students and teachers benefit from rich educational tasks that invite students to share information about their understanding of the lesson while the lesson is occurring in order to nurture productive learning by both teacher and student. Formative feedback is facilitated by technologies such as connected classrooms, videography, online formative quizzes, and manuscript multi-draft editing. Technology-assisted formative assessment represents a powerful option to promote improved classroom communications that support formative assessment practices for teachers in twenty-first century classrooms.

The Integration of Educational Technology for Classroom-Based Formative Assessment to Empower Teaching and Learning

2018 ◽  
pp. 321-341
Author(s):  
Asli Lidice Gokturk Saglam
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
The Face ◽  
Everyday Classroom

As educational technology continues to change the face of educational contexts in the digital age, the way in which teachers can incorporate various existing online resources and applications within their everyday classroom activities deserves closer attention. In particular, it is important to explore how interactive Web 2.0 tools might be integrated into classroom-based assessment practices. This way, the efficacy of online tools and their ability to both facilitate teacher assessment practices and empower student learning can be adequately assessed. This chapter aims to explore, showcase and discuss how Web 2.0 tools can be integrated into teachers' classroom-based language assessment to get information that can be used diagnostically to adjust teaching and learning with reference to current literature, explore challenges and focus on suggestions and avenues for further research. Furthermore, examples of web tools that could be used for formative assessment will be briefly enlisted.

Classroom Assessment to Support Teaching and Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 683 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorrie A. Shepard
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Classroom Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Grand Theory ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Proposed Model

Classroom assessment includes both formative assessment, used to adapt instruction and help students to improve, and summative assessment, used to assign grades. These two forms of assessment must be coherently linked through a well-articulated model of learning. Sociocultural theory is an encompassing grand theory that integrates motivation and cognitive development, and it enables the design of equitable learning environments. Learning progressions are examples of fine-grained models of learning, representing goals, intermediate stages, and instructional means for reaching those goals. A model for creating a productive classroom learning culture is proposed. Rather than seeking coherence with standardized tests, which undermines the learning orientation of formative assessment, I propose seeking coherence with ambitious teaching practices. The proposed model also offers ways to minimize the negative effects of grading on learning. Support for teachers to learn these new assessment practices is most likely to be successful in the context of professional development for new curriculum and standards.

Why aren’t teachers using formative assessment? What can be done about it?

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 112-136
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bond ◽  
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Geoff Woolcott ◽  
Christos Markopoulos ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
School System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Whole School Approach ◽  
Nature Of Teaching

Formative assessment is a crucial aspect of teaching and learning in the classroom, but there is evidence that there has been a lack of effective implementation of formative assessment in practice. In response, this article outlines the design and development of a formative assessment framework that can be implemented as a consistent whole-school approach to embedding practice that is owned and developed by teachers. The approach outlined in the framework, therefore, is designed to integrate formative assessment practices within a school system context, providing advice and support to school leaders and teachers. The framework in practice should act to enable teachers and students to develop new understandings and perspectives about each other and the nature of teaching and learning, as well as ways to implement new practices of teaching and learning supported by reflective modes of active participation.

scholarly journals THE POTENTIAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY EDUCATION APPS IN THE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
M. L. Oliveira ◽  
T. Silva ◽  
J. C.V. Garzón ◽  
E. Galembeck
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Metabolic Pathways ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Software ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Effective Feedback ◽  
Process Material

Introduction and objectives: Apps can be designed to provide usage data, and most of them do. These data are usually used to map users interests and to deliver more effective ads that are more likely to result in clicks, and sales. We have applied some of these metrics to understand how can it be used to map students’ behavior and to promote a formative assessment using educational software. The purpose of a formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors and students to improve the teaching and learning process. Thus, this modality aims to help both students and instructors to identify strengths and weaknesses that need to be developed. This study aimed to describe the potential of educational apps in the formative assessment process. Material and Methods: We have implemented assessment tools embedded in three apps (ARMET, The Cell and 3D Class) used to teach: 1) Metabolic Pathways; 2) Scale of the cellular structures, and 3) Concepts from techniques used in a Biochemistry Lab course. The implemented tools allow to verify on what issues there were recurring mistakes, the total number of mistakes presented, which questions they most achieved, how long they took to perform the activity and other relevant information. Results and conclusion: Educational apps can provide transparent and coherent evaluation metrics to enable instructors to systematize more consistent criteria and indicators, reducing the subjectivity of the formative assessment process and the time spent for preparation, tabulation and analysis of assessment data. This approach allows instructors to understand better where students struggle, giving to them a more effective feedback. It also helps instructor to plan interventions to help students to perform better and to achieve the learning objectives.

scholarly journals Exploring and conceptualizing teacher formative assessment practices and digital applications within a technology-enhanced high school classroom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nilay Muslu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Sociocultural Learning ◽  
Classroom Norms ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Ipad Applications ◽  
The Impact

Formative assessment is essential for improving student learning. Formative assessment research has predominantly used cognitive learning theories. In this dissertation study, I used sociocultural learning perspectives to understand how formative assessment supported student learning during interaction and how it empowered students. This dissertation included three manuscripts. The first manuscript was a conceptual study. I developed a new formative assessment cycle that was built on sociocultural perspectives and prior formative assessment cycles. The model included four steps: building community, monitoring community, community mediation, and redefining goals. These steps were described in detail with examples, and the roles of the teacher, learners, and peers were discussed. Future researchers may potentially use the model to understand formative assessment practices. Practicing teachers and teacher educators may benefit from the provided examples for classroom implementation of the model. In the empirical part of the dissertation, Chapter Three and Chapter Four, the participant teacher, who was a high school physics teacher, was selected from teachers that had been actively using iPads in their classrooms. This study was conducted at a public high school in the Midwest United States that had a diverse student population. Data were collected across eighteen class sessions. Primary data sources included video recorded observation of class sections, iPad applications, and teacher interviews. Supporting secondary sources included pictures taken during observations, lesson plans, assessment examples, student-works, and student interviews. In the second manuscript, I examined a high school physics teacher's technology enhanced classroom to understand the impact of technology on the teacher's formative assessment practices, and how the iPad influenced the formative assessment process, by using sociocultural learning perspectives. The participant teacher's formative assessment practices were described (members, tools, and classroom norms). Results showed that influences of the iPad on the formative assessment process were: 1) transforming classroom community, 2) empowering students, and 3) facilitating evidence-based discussions. This study shed light on: the impact of technology use on the teacher's formative assessment practice, how the impact rebuilt the classroom norms, and how technology use impacted student identity development. In the third manuscript, I focused on the most important aspect of formative assessment - feedback. I examined how well iPad applications (apps) supported providing feedback. Then, I compared the app affordances with teacher practice. To enable analysis of data, I enhanced Hatzipanagos and Warburton's (2009) feedback dimensions. Analysis revealed app diversity in supporting different feedback dimensions, and the teacher, through additional discussion and interactions with students, was able to support dimensions that an app did not. The provided examples of app affordances and teacher practices may be beneficial to prospective and practicing teachers. Application designers may benefit from this study towards improving their apps to support effective feedback.

Using Student Assessment Choice and eAssessment to Achieve Self Regulated Learning

2010 ◽  
pp. 89-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cath Ellis ◽  
Sue Folley
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning

This chapter explores how we can harness technology to foster self-regulated learning in assessment practices. Traditionally innovation in assessment lags behind that in other areas of teaching and learning, however, it is important to make sure that assessment methods and practices are aligned with learning objectives. For assessment to be a beneficial learning experience for students it is important that they are afforded more autonomy and agency over what, when and how they are assessed. This chapter reflects on the ‘problem’ that assessment and feedback presents and on what the research is showing academics need to concentrate. Secondly, it considers how eAssessment tools can provide a way forward to achieving these objectives and helping students to develop more self-regulated learning strategies. Finally the authors will explore how the use of these tools can allow students greater autonomy over the whole assessment process, and the essential role that technology may play in achieving this.

scholarly journals Formative assessment and feedback in the primary classroom: An interplay between teachers' beliefs and practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Prema Shoba Perumanathan
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formative Feedback ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Collegial Support ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Feedback Strategies

<p>This study explores the interplay between teachers’ beliefs and practices in understanding and implementing formative assessment and feedback to enhance student learning. Particularly, it explores teachers’ conceptions of effective formative feedback strategies, and the role they should play in their classroom practice. The context for this investigation was writing lessons in three primary classrooms, and included examination of three cases of primary teachers in the greater Wellington Region, New Zealand. Sadler’s (1989) theory of effective formative assessment and feedback provided the theoretical framework informing both data collection method and the analysis of data. Analysis of classroom observations, teaching documents and field notes revealed that teachers have adopted many strategies associated with good feedback practice. It was revealed, however, that the influence of teachers’ beliefs in the implementation and enactment of formative feedback and the interplay of their beliefs and practices affected their practices. These teachers’ conception and beliefs on how formative feedback should be practiced varied, as did their assumptions about their students’ abilities. These inconsistencies were further influenced by a range of contextual factors, including the diversity of students’ needs, differing collegial support, the structure of school writing programmes, teachers’ limited professional development and/or learning about formative assessment and feedback, and teachers’ learning having been undertaken in an era that favoured behaviourist practices. This research revealed the need for the provision of ongoing professional learning and development in writing instructions and formative assessment and feedback strategies. This would address the apparent inconsistencies between teachers’ conceptions and beliefs regarding effective formative assessment and feedback and their practices. As a result, this would help to promote Sadler’s (1989) formative assessment and feedback strategies to achieve more effective classroom teaching and learning practice. Implications for teachers, schools and professional learning and development are outlined and suggestions for further research included.</p>

scholarly journals O COMPROMISSO FORMATIVO NA AVALIAÇÃO DA APRENDIZAGEM EM QUÍMICA

Roteiro ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 379
Author(s):  
Elaine Cristina Galvão ◽  
Nadia Aparecida De Souza
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Chemistry Teaching ◽  
Pedagogical Intervention ◽  
Public Network ◽  
La Red ◽  
Evaluation Of Learning

<p><strong>Resumo</strong>: O objetivo com esta pesquisa qualitativa foi mapear e analisar práticas avaliativas marcadas pelo compromisso formativo, detendo-se nas relações possíveis de serem estabelecidas entre elas e na maneira de abordar o erro, por parte dos professores de Química. Participaram três professoras de diferentes instituições da Rede Pública Estadual do Município de Londrina, PR. Os dados, recolhidos por meio de observação e entrevista semiestruturada, foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo temática. Os resultados revelaram que as professoras realizam práticas avaliativas formativas, intentando conhecer a estratégia empreendida pelo aluno para, pela recomposição do ensino, auxiliá-lo a avançar no processo de construção do conhecimento, bem como, que o erro passou a ser compreendido como um elemento essencial no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, sendo fonte de reflexões e descobertas.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>: Ação docente. Avaliação da aprendizagem. Ensino de Química. Erro. Regulação da aprendizagem.</p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p><strong>COMMITMENT IN FORMATIVE EVALUATION OF LEARNING IN CHEMISTRY</strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong>: With this qualitative research it was aimed to map and analyze formative assessment practices marked by commitment, stopping at the potential relations to be established between them and the in way to approach the error, by Chemistry teachers. Three teachers from different institutions that make up the State Public Network in Londrina, PR participated. The data, collected through observation and semistructured interviews, were subjected to thematic content analysis. The results revealed that teachers perform formative assessment practices, attempting to know the strategy undertaken by the student to, by, the rebuilding of the school, help him advance in the knowledge construction process, as that well as the error came to be understood as an essential element to the teaching and learning process, being the source of reflections and discoveries.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Teacher action. Assessment of learning. Chemistry teaching. Error. Pedagogical intervention.</p><p><strong>LA FORMACIÓN DEL COMPROMISO EN LA EVALUACIÓN DEL APRENDIZAJE EN QUÍMICA</strong></p><p><strong>Resumen</strong>: El objetivo de la investigación cualitativa fue mapear y analizar las prácticas de evaluación marcaron el compromiso formativo, parando las posibles relaciones que se establezcan entre ellos y la manera de abordar el error, por los profesores de la química. Participaron tres profesores de diferentes instituciones de la Red Pública del Estado en Londrina-PR. Los datos recogidos a través de la observación y entrevistas semiestructuradas fueron sometidos a análisis de contenido temático. Los resultados mostraron que los profesores llevan a cabo las prácticas de evaluación formativa, con la intención de conocer la estrategia emprendida por el estudiante a la reconstrucción de la educación, ayudan a avanzar en el proceso de construcción del conocimiento, así, el error llegó a ser entendido como un elemento esencial en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje, una fuente de reflexiones y descubrimientos.</p><p><strong>Palabras clave</strong>: Acción docente. Evaluación del aprendizaje. La enseñanza de la química. Error. Aprender regulación.</p>

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