MEDT 7476 Final Reflection

Reflection of Assessing Technology-enhanced Instruction

Samuel Sykes
University of West Georgia
5/2/2018
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I am currently a second-grade teacher in Troup County Schools at Franklin Forest

Elementary School. I be will reflecting on the using technology for assessment inside of the

classroom. While taking this course, I have always taken what I learnt and try to incorporate it in

my classroom in some way. Using assessment technology has made giving assessments to easier

because they enjoy it because of the technology that is involved.

I feel that was able to meet the course objective of communicate assessment results to

various stakeholder’s groups. I had to meet with my principal about the progress that my student

has made, and I was told to bring data to show student growth. I was able to use the data that I

used from the flipchart from when I used voting eggs for a pre and posttest. I was able to present

the data good by talking about the gains as a class and Individual. As I was researching, I find

that I could communicate results better by addresses misconceptions about that data meaning

talking about the good and bad of the data.

I was able to identify and implement principles of effective assessment in the classroom

through giving different form of assessments in my classroom. To guide my instruction in the

classroom, I prefer to conduct assessments in ways that my students understand and how I

presented the information to them. I use skill checks, math problems, exit tickets, multiple

choice and asking open ended questions to help them elaborate on their answers.

The skills check and exit tickets help me determine what I need to go back and

reteach. One of the things, I can do better with the principles of effective assessment is giving

consistent assessments. I sometimes tend to give a skill check out of the blue when I see my

students are not paying attention prove a point. I can fix this by trying to give a skill check on

certain days of the week like Monday, Wednesday and Friday to see if students are retaining the

information.
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Since taking this course, my perspective on using technology tools for assessment has

changed. I have always used the traditional way of giving students assessments because I was

taught it was the more effective way to see what students know and don’t know. I have learned

throughout the course that using technology as an assessment tool can make student more

engaged in taking an assessment and the content.

For example, during my small group reading time, I used kahoot with my students. I

wanted to see how they could handle it as a small group because I recalled a colleague in the

course say how her kids love kahoot. Once I use the assessment tool, I saw that my students were

more engagement and I could have a student lead discussion with my students about why they

choose that specific answer as the lead facilitator.

I used this assessment tool during whole group for cooperative learning and saw that my

students could handle the technology assessment and were more willing to answer the questions

than they would a traditional assessment. Most recently, I have tried voting eggs with the

promethean board when doing flip charts to have students to answer the questions and see who

exactly got the answer wrong and right quickly.

In closing, I feel that taking this course has helped me get outside my comfort zone when

it comes to assessment. I have learnt how to balance assessment the traditional and non-

traditional way to reach all my students that are diverse learners. This will give me a variety of

ways to utilize data to guide instruction and measure student achievement. In addition to increase

student achievement in the classroom. After this course, I plan to research more ways to

communicate assessment results to stakeholder in and out of the classroom about student growth.
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References

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https://atl.wsu.edu/assessment-resources/assessment-toolkits/assessment-data-analysis-
toolkit/presenting-assessment-data-to-stakeholders/
https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/digiassass_eada.pdf
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Read "Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards" at
NAP.edu. (n.d.). Retrieved May 2, 2018, from https://www.nap.edu/read/9847/chapter/6