This document discusses how teachers can use technology to improve assessment practices and provide more effective feedback to students. It recommends using formative assessment tools like Socrative to embed assessment into instruction. The document also suggests using automated feedback and text replacement tools to increase efficiency when grading and giving feedback. Finally, it advocates experimenting with collaborative writing and screencasting tools to turn assessment into more of a conversation between teachers and students. The overall goal is to thoughtfully incorporate technology solutions to enhance assessment and feedback practices.

1. Upping your Assessment Game
with Technology
Jason Neiffer
Tech-­‐Savvy
Teacher-­‐in-­‐Residence,
Northwest
Council
for
Computer
Educa=on
Curriculum
Director,
Montana
Digital
Academy
Doctoral
Candidate,
the
University
of
Montana

2. Paperless
Handouts
h=p://jasonlinks.net/ncceevernote

3. Image
by
MarEn
Cisneros

4. What is upping your game?

5. Teaching Must be Evolutionary

6. Teachers Must Challenge Themselves

7. Internal Motivation is Best

8. Assumptions about Assessment

9. You are Using Well-Designed Assessments

10. You Believe in Assessment for Learning

11. You Know that Assessment is High-and-Low Stake

12. Assessment Should be Woven into Instruction

13. Tech-Savvy Teacher
Assessment Philosophy

14. Teacher Skill is Critical

15. Your Tools Must be Purposefully Chosen

16. Your Time in Finite and Valuable

17. Strategy One:
Build Formative Assessment into
Instruction Using Technology

18. http://jasonlinks.net/assessmentalber

20. Assessment Should be Woven into Instruction

21. http://jasonlinks.net/homebase

22. http://jasonlinks.net/interactivity

23. Recommended: http://www.socrative.com

24. http://m.socrative.com -- Room 406243

25. PracEce/Scaffolding
Required
to
Make
this
Classroom
PracEce
Analyze
the
Data
for
Usefulness
USE
the
Data
to
Improve
InstrucEon
Don’t
Be
Afraid
to
Abandon
This!

26. Strategy Two:
Increase your Efficiency in Giving Rich
Feedback Using Technology

27. http://jasonlinks.net/effectivefeedback

28. Goal-­‐Referenced
Tangible
and
Transparent
AcEonable
User-­‐Friendly
Timely
Ongoing
Consistent

30. Using
Automated,
CorrecEve
Feedback
with
ObjecEve
Assessments

34. Moodle
Blackboard
BrainHoney
Desire2Learn

35. Using
Text
Replacement
to
Increase
Teacher
Efficiency

40. Windows
• Phrase
Express
(TST
Pick)
• ShortKeys
Mac
• aText
(TST
Pick)
• TextExpander
(TST
Pick)
Chrome
• PopChrom
(meh)

41. Reimagining
Assessment
as
ConversaEon
with
CollaboraEve
WriEng

45. http://www.kaizena.com

46. Google
Drive
Office
Live

47. Moving
Assessment
to
ConversaEon
with
ScreencasEng

49. Jing
Screencast-­‐o-­‐MaEc
Camtasia
Studio
Snagit
(TST
Pick)
Screenflow
(Mac
Only–
TST
Pick)

53. Evaluate
your
Current
Assessment
PracEce

54. Goal-­‐Referenced
Tangible
and
Transparent
AcEonable
User-­‐Friendly
Timely
Ongoing
Consistent

55. Try
One
Tool
that
Ups
Your
Game
in
One
Aspect
of
Rich
Feedback

56. Evaluate
and
Repeat

57. Jason
Neiffer
Tech-­‐Savvy
Teacher-­‐in-­‐Residence,
NCCE
Doctoral
Candidate,
the
University
of
Montana
(Go
Griz!)
Curriculum
Director,
Montana
Digital
Academy
Twi=er:
@techsavvyteach
@ncce_edtech
Blog:
h=p://blog.ncce.org
Contact
for
CollaboraEon
and
Training:
h=p://www.neiffer.com
h=p://www.ncce.org