Assessment is something that can be tricky for teachers to nail down the perfect fit for all of their students. I remember the moaning and groaning coming from my classmates when we had to take online tests and receive our scores right after the test was finished. I remember moaning and groaning when my class would be handed paper tests because it takes the teacher way to long to grade them all and give us our grades. Is there a method of assessment that is the most beneficial for all students? I am not exactly sure how I feel about technology assessment. I think with technology assessment, things can go wrong quickly and malfunction. As a student growing up throughout the big advancement in technology, I was used to being assessed formally and informally, individually and collaboratively, and online and by paper. Before reading Effective Assessment in a Digital Age I was not aware of the four different types of assessment that can be done when using technology. I also was not sure how I felt about online assessment, but after Effective Assessment in a Digital Age, I believe that there is a type of online assessment for everyone and it should be used frequently because it is a great tool! The four types of assessment presented in Effective Assessment in a Digital Age are: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20140614115719/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/digiassass_eada.pdf associative, constructivist, social constructivist, and situative perspectives. I felt the best about using social constructivist in my future classroom. I feel the strongest about social constructivist because often times, peers can be your best teacher and they want to help you learn and succeed. Effective Assessment in a Digital Age (2010) stated “Assessment would involve group tasks and assignments, sometimes with individual contributions being assessed. This perspective emphasizes that feedback is not just teacher-provided but must be rich and varied, deriving also from peers during collaboration and discussion (p. 10). I think the best part about the social constructivist is the group collaboration, because not only does the student receive feedback from the teacher, but from other students as well. The more the merrier! Tubechop introduced me to adaption testing- I LOVE the structure! Tubechop stated that “each test would be customized to each student, questions will not be too hard, nor easy for the student”, this is something that I think could improve test scores for classrooms of all ages. All questions come from a question pool, so everyone has the fair chance of getting the same question and as a future teacher this will be something I look forward to investigating more in depth. After learning about adaptive testing, online assessment has earned my vote. As a future teacher, I believe that assessment should be performed in the most beneficial way possible for both the student and the teacher. If standard assessment such as paper and pen seem the best, then I won’t hesitate to go this route. But, I feel that online assessment can be done in so many different ways that regular assessment cannot. I have opened my eyes into a new type of assessment that I can use in the future. At the beginning of my reflection I wasn’t too into technology assessment, but now I have positive feelings about using technology to assess students in the future. Works Cited Effective Assessment in a Digital Age A guide to technology-enhanced assessment and feedback. (2010). Retrieved September 27, 2016, from http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20140614115719/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/digiassass_eada.pdf TubeChop - Chop YouTube Videos. (n.d.). Retrieved September 27, 2016, from http://www.tubechop.com/watch/8379948
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