Assessment

Assessment is a teacher tool to measure the students mastery of learning target at various stages of learning. Assessment is part of the teacher's instructional design. Teacher rectifies any misalignment of learning when he gets feedback from his students learning through assessment types. However, assessment is not restricted only on how well a student acquire knowledge, the teacher obtains information for  making decisions about curricula, programs, schools and educational policy. Systematic procedures of assessment such as tests help gather observations and characteristics of students using numerical scales or classification scheme.After assessment, the teacher provides feedback to his students on their strengths and weaknesses, and how can they improve, for parents, the teacher provides the students guardians strength and weaknesses of their kids as well as what can they do to improve their kids learning. Finally assessment's feedback for the teacher on how well have students learned the contents? Have students achieved their short term goals? What misconceptions do students have and can the teacher adjust his instructional plan accordingly?

  

Formative assessment judge the quality of student's learning while still in the preocess of learning While summative assessment judge the quality of achievement after instructional process is completed. Rick Wormeli indicated the gray area that exists between the formative and summative assessment; A summative assessment can become a formative assessment when students have not reached the mastery level of the concept. On the other hand, fomative assessment can becom a summative assessment as well. His instructive critical feedback leans toward the bidirection between formative and summative assessment. In addition, I find his remarque interesting toward the teacher's design of assessment. It should be based on the classroom differentiated learning. In other words, the teacher should be able to tell from the descriptive feedback what each student need in his learning.

 Pear Deck is a tool that allow each student to connect to the teacher presentation. As the teacher asks questions, students answer the questions instantly. PearDeck technology display an instant colored tabular or diagram data that the teacher can use to base his next instruction. EduCanon technology allows students to view the material that the teacher presented to his learners. Students can view the video and answer the questions on the content of the video. EduCanon technology marks the lesson is complete when students finish viewing the video. Students can view all the lesson they have completed as shown in the following figure.  I think both viewed technologies facilitate the learning in terms of conversation between teacher and his students, engage students in learning and extend learning beyond the wall of the classroom. Students can learn at their convenient time.

It is interesting to observe a teacher communicating with his students about their learning. In this video,  The teacher's background is impressive. The progressive evolution in one's career can only enhance the student's learning. The teacher who always strive to be a better teacher is a sign of one's career success. This video doesn't only tackle concept of assessment but it shows how technology impact the learning in a positive way. The most impressive ideas I gathered from this presentation is how the technology used helped the teacher gather information about previous knowledge of his students about assessment types. It allowed him to find his teaching starting point. This stage is called the input in The learning cycle. The process of learning stage started when he presented the learning targets to his students. The consistent digital conversation that Mr scott have with his students gives him an instructive feedback to adjust his teaching. It is clear The role of technology and how it is important in the learning. The real time gathering of data and display of information on the screen helps somehow the teacher. 

This presentation will impact my learning in a positive way. I added to my arsenal of teaching tools Peack and Deck as well as educanon. They will enhance the instructive communication with my students. Eventhough, Peack and Deck feedback display will help me adjust my teaching during the presentation of learning targets, I questions the reliability and validity of the displayed feedback. Are there any error in the shown result? Is there a bias displaying information that will mislead the teacher before making any decision about his teaching? The technology tools feedback can not be the only resource of feedback gathering information, but it could be integrated to other sources to avoid any future errors in decision making about the learning.