ASSESSMENT

· **Assessment** (Chad, Marla, Stefan) o Does technology allow for better assessment and how? o How were test scores affected by extreme tech integration? o What can I do to assess skills? How can we tie the info together? o Can we effectively shift to project-based learning/assessment at the same time we must hit standardized test and college placement goals?

[|Technology Assessment] U.S. Department of Education - Chad

**Electronic portfolios** Collecting, selecting, reflecting, presenting, feedback **Purposes/Benefits** **Precepts** **Questions** **Other thoughts** **Resources**
 *  Differentiated assessment
 *  Digital citizenship
 *  Develops positive online image development and personal branding ("academic MySpace")
 *  Evidence of learning: process and product
 *  Provide a student's "roadmap" to teachers
 *  Makes students think bigger and assists in college and career planning
 *  Showcase achievement for accountability
 *  Reinforces information literacy skills across the curriculum
 *  Makes learning personal
 *  Students will start to want better assignments ("I want something good in my portfolio") which will help drive teacher participation
 *  Emphasizes intrinsic motivation instead of extrinsic motivation (requirements, grades, etc.)
 *  Autonomy (open)
 *  Mastery (must be fun, must have engagement...like sports, autotelic)
 *  Purpose (purpose and passion co-exist)
 *  Establish a central and common point for the student experience
 *  Student-created, student-centered
 * <span style="direction: ltr; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Portfolio is student's own story
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Travel with students when they leave Darlington
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Should be able to span Darlington career
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Project-based
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Shared, with feedback loop for affirmation and improvement
 * <span style="direction: ltr; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> On different levels: classmates, teacher, parents, teachers and students, school, world
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Store documents and reflect on learning
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Reflection of the student as a person undergoing continuous personal development, not just a store of evidence
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> How is it hosted? Internal or external?
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> How are students coached since portfolios span classes and pulls from outside them?
 * <span style="direction: ltr; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Teacher
 * <span style="direction: ltr; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Advisor
 * <span style="direction: ltr; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Parents
 * <span style="direction: ltr; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Peers (commenting)
 * <span style="direction: ltr; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Needed less as they learn digital citizenship
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Seeing all work in one place can point out inconsistencies
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Changing the way teachers teach is hard; portfolio can be an agent of that change
 * <span style="direction: ltr; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Examples
 * <span style="direction: ltr; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> []
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