Jennifer Alexander
Sloan's Blended Learning Conference was held April 23-4, Shared by Heather Edick >>
2012 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is primarily a postsecondary conference, although there were a few sessions on K12 blended learning implementation. K12 often follows where higher education leads, so if you are primarily interested in K12 education, this might be a glimpse into your future as well.
Shared by Ian Gardner >>
As readers of this blog will know, I've been learning how psychological research can help guide assessment. I presented on this earlier in the year at a JISC CETIS workshop on assessment, and was a little daunted to see in the front row two Professors of Education including Professor David Nicol, a world authority on assessment in universities!
Shared by Michele Medek >>
"Your best intentions notwithstanding, you don't really know how well a question is going to perform until you have data to analyze after learners have taken the test." We eLearning developers are used to the question, "Which is better, eLearning or classroom instruction?" The answer is, "It depends."
Shared by Heather Edick >>
'Essential questions' are all too often lower order. And not that essential.
Shared by Jacqueline Sham >>
PDF from http://www.pdesas.org/Standard/CommonCore
Shared by Jacqueline Sham >>
PDF from http://www.pdesas.org/Standard/CommonCore
Shared by Sandy Catherman >>
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, 'Tween Crayons and Curfews: Tips for Middle School Teachers. In this chapter, titled, "Tips for Dealing with the Grading and Feedback Masses," I provide an insight into my own grade book and give advice on how to cut down on the stack of papers and assignments while still giving effective feedback to students.
Shared by Lori Brown >>
As educators, we expect our students to learn and apply math concepts using higher-order thinking skills that go beyond rote learning. With the adoption of the Common Core Math Standards, many of us must do just that, by focusing more in-depth on fewer math concepts.
Shared by Sandy Catherman >>
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, 'Tween Crayons and Curfews: Tips for Middle School Teachers. In this chapter, titled, "Tips for Dealing with the Grading and Feedback Masses," I provide an insight into my own grade book and give advice on how to cut down on the stack of papers and assignments while still giving effective feedback to students.
Shared by Jessica Hogan >>
The rubric builder enables one to easily create an assessment rubric through a simple Web interface. The resulting rubric can then be used to automate much of the grading process, as the grader simply clicks on cells within the rubric to assign points to student work, along with accompanying feedback.
Shared by Jaime Emery-Seibert >>
This video is a brief introduction to some of the requirements for assessment in a blended learning environment.
Online Assessment Resources Here you will find a hand selected index of authentic assessment resources. You are one click away from vital information about performance assessment, rubrics, negotiable contracting, and electronic portfolios. We include links to web based tools for creating your own assessments.
'If lower-order learning is an unintended educational consequence of on-line assessment, then any perceived or real gains made in efficiency, staff workload reduction and/or cost savings are at a questionable price.' Why consider on-line assessment? A good deal of investigation and development is underway in Australian universities into the possibilities for effective and efficient on-line and computer-based assessment.
