Assessment

After a lesson is taught--teachers can assess their students in many different ways. Some examples are multiple choice tests, true or false, and essay questions. Let's discuss multiple choice exams or quizzes. This kind of assessment is simple and fast for a teacher to grade and helps students with the elimination process when searching for the correct answer. Unfortunately with multiple choice questions students can potentially guess the answer with having no knowledge of the topic being discussed. True or false are also easy to grade and allow students to differentiate from simply two options. This form of assessment is helpful to students giving them a 50/50 chance of receiving full credit. Essay questions are more complex and take a long time to read and grade. Essays allow students to develop and justify their answers making it less objective. Although I only discussed a few ways of assessing student knowledge and understanding of content there are many more. To name a few--portfolios, projects, performances, short answers, and fill in the blank.

Data collection/Analysis

Data Collection and Analysis is a form of learning where students use technology to gather and/or synthesize information. Some examples for teachers would be a grade books or creating online/computer based testing systems. The goal in every classroom is for students to learn something from the lesson given. Students can make graphs or charts to express what they have learned or information they have gathered. Requirements would be a computer lab and time for students to gather data. Availability would be productivity tools for instance. Decision would require to decide what to use--one could be a spreadsheet. The explanation then would discuss the Three E's of a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet is effective because it clearly shows the data found. It is efficient because it organizes the information automatically eliminating all the time it would take if it had be done by hand. Last a spreadsheet will enhance the appearance and will enhance learning process because from spreadsheet students can choose from a variety of graphs to express their information.