Assessment (formative or summative) will always be a challenge for me as an educator.\u00a0 What to test?\u00a0 How to test my students?\u00a0 Is\u00a0the assessment\u00a0completely fair?\u00a0 Did I give them too much time to prepare – maybe too little?\u00a0 Maybe a written test isn’t\u00a0the way to assess this time around?\u00a0 Maybe a combination of hands-on and a written test?\u00a0 So many questions\/challenges related to assessing – I think it will never be completely solved (for me anyway)\u00a0within my educational career as a teacher.<\/p>\n
This course is great because I get to practice using software that is similar to what I want to use to set up future online material for my students.<\/p>\n
I geared my communication tool activity and this assessment activity on grade 6 science curriculum (since I teach grade 6 subjects).\u00a0 I know our instructor, John, can view my quiz from my Vista working shell – but there seems to be no way for me to link it so that anyone can view it and try it.<\/p>\n
Like other students, it took me a good two hours to come up with this online 90-minute (one doesn’t have to use the entire time – but there is no rush) science quiz which is out of 29 marks.\u00a0 I think the hardest part was creating the matching questions as I didn’t know how many matches to put down per question.\u00a0 At the end, I made up three questions with five or four terms to be matched with five or four definitions.\u00a0 I related the communication tool activity to climate change and the assessment activity to electricity – both topics covered in BC grade 6 science curriculum.<\/p>\n
Similiar to what others shared, my concern is how would I know if any of my students are using a textbook at home while writing the quiz.\u00a0 I guess to combat that problem, I can have students write the test in the computer lab – but wouldn’t that defeat the one of the major purposes of having online school (ie. to be at home going through the material and writing the test)?<\/p>\n
Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Assessment (formative or summative) will always be a challenge for me as an educator.\u00a0 What to test?\u00a0 How to test my students?\u00a0 Is\u00a0the assessment\u00a0completely fair?\u00a0 Did I give them too much time to prepare – maybe too little?\u00a0 Maybe a … Continue reading