Formative Assessment
Formative assessment is a teaching method that involves the instructor evaluating, in an informal or formal manner, a student's comprehension of the lesson during the learning process. According to the this week's resources some teacher's can give an assessment before the chapter is started to diagnose where the instruction in the lesson should be focused. Assessments can be given in the middle of the lesson to see if the students are keeping up or misunderstanding the concepts or afterwards showing if additional help is needed or which students need extra instruction.
I haven't seen much of formative assessment in the classroom that was done through technology. One or two of my kids' teacher's did formative assessments particularly in math but it seemed like a lot of work as the teacher would use paper and pencil assessments and it seemed like the students were assessed quite a lot compared to instruction time.
The advantages of an easy to use app would be many as it would take a short amount of time to pull together, quick for the student's to use and even quicker reports. Effective and informative reports would benefit the instructor to shift the lesson forward, take a step backwards or give extra instruction to only a few students. Formative assessment in the form of games would also help the students process and incorporate the new topic and give a bit of a lift to the feel of the lesson.
However, sometimes too many assessments and interaction with technology leads to the student's loosing that social interaction involved in vocally answering questions and being ready when called upon in class. This is a skill too and it builds up to public speaking, verbally answering questions can be intimidating but an extremely necessary building block in order to scale up to the skill of vocalizing anything in public.
I haven't seen much of formative assessment in the classroom that was done through technology. One or two of my kids' teacher's did formative assessments particularly in math but it seemed like a lot of work as the teacher would use paper and pencil assessments and it seemed like the students were assessed quite a lot compared to instruction time.
The advantages of an easy to use app would be many as it would take a short amount of time to pull together, quick for the student's to use and even quicker reports. Effective and informative reports would benefit the instructor to shift the lesson forward, take a step backwards or give extra instruction to only a few students. Formative assessment in the form of games would also help the students process and incorporate the new topic and give a bit of a lift to the feel of the lesson.
However, sometimes too many assessments and interaction with technology leads to the student's loosing that social interaction involved in vocally answering questions and being ready when called upon in class. This is a skill too and it builds up to public speaking, verbally answering questions can be intimidating but an extremely necessary building block in order to scale up to the skill of vocalizing anything in public.
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