Technology and Assessment Rubrics

1. Technology
and
Assessment
RUBRICS
PREPARED BY:
ROSELLE M. REONAL

2. Technology can help teachers
track and assess their students'
-- as well as their own --
performance in the classroom. It
can also be used to facilitate
communication
between students and teachers
and to create digital records of
student growth and development
that can easily be passed along
from grade to grade.

3. How can technology assist
in understanding the
minds of children?
You can gather a lot of insight by
talking to a child at length, but that is
often not practical in the classroom.
Given the constraints of the
classroom, technology can provide
another set of ways to assess what
children are understanding and
learning. It allows for continuing
evaluation of the classroom lessons.

4. Technology can also be
used in the production
of portfolios.
Students can use:
• Scanners
• digital photographs
• computer-generated movies

5. Technology can be used for
instant assessment in many
different ways, such as tracking
student progress over time.
Perhaps even more compelling,
however, EdTech can also be
used to aid formative
assessment: helping to boost
engagement, identify knowledge
gaps, and support
further/deeper learning.

6. 5 Ways EdTech
can be Used to
aid learning and
assessment in
classroom

7. 1. Increase Flexibility
pupils access and complete
online assessments at a time
that best suits their individual
learning style and needs

8. 2. Improve Feedback
Allows teachers to assess
student comprehension in
the moment of learning,
with real-time
assessments and instant
polling.
ClassFlow is a collaborative and
cloud-based lesson delivery
software for interactive whiteboards
and interactive displays. It sends
quizzes, instant polls and activities
to students using a broad range of
student devices and question types
such as:
Multiple Choice, True/False, Likert
Scale, Number, Creative Response
and many more.

9. “Technology gives us a way to get feedback
continually during the teaching process,
instead of at the end of the teaching process --
when you end up with only a retrospective
understanding.” (Petrosino, 2007).

10. Like a ship…
Continual feedback between
teachers and students generates a
way of teaching that is very different
from the traditional approach. It
becomes more like sailing a ship,
with the teacher constantly adjusting
course. The goal is set, but the
actual path responds to the needs of
the individual students.

11. 3. Recognize and cater for
differences
Along with a variety of online
resources to boost learning,
there is a vast range of apps
available to help teachers
assess pupils depending on
their personal interests,
abilities, and goals
ClassDojo is a mobile app can be
used to record student behavior and
achievements in context.

12. 4. Understand the
importance of
emotion
Technology is being used
to help teachers consider
the emotional impact of
their learning activities,
assessments and teaching
methods.

13. “Sometimes students just don’t resonate with content, but technology can
overcome this disengagement by evoking a student’s emotion to better learn
and retain material.” (Darby, 2019)

14. 5. Consolidate
Learning
Students can also use
audio and video tools to
create podcasts and
presentations reviewing
their learning that term.

15. Evaluating Educational
Technology and Integration
Strategies

16. Why do we need to evaluate EdTech?
Evaluating the appropriateness and
effectiveness of educational technology is an
important aspect of integrating current
technologies into your classroom curriculum.

17. Why do we need to evaluate EdTech?
Evaluating the use of educational technology in class is
important as evaluating the processes done in any project.
To evaluate a process or item is to determine its importance
and usefulness.
Determining the appropriateness of educational technology
in the classroom instruction and to gauge how much it
enhances teaching and learning are some areas that we
take a look at to arrive at a final decision about its use and
implementation in education.

18. Rubrics
“The Rubric for E-Learning Tool
Evaluation offers educators a
framework, with criteria and levels of
achievement, to assess the suitability of
an e-learning tool for their learners'
needs and for their own learning
outcomes and classroom context.”

19. Why do we use Rubrics in Technology Assessments?
Educators often use rubrics to articulate "the
expectations for an assignment by listing the
criteria or what counts, and describing levels of
quality.“ (Reddy & Andrade, 2010).

20. Rubrics
“Given the number of elements involved in multi-
media presentation, instructors might make use of
the rubrics to grade students work.”

21. Criteria that can be considered in making rubrics:
1. Content – the teacher has to determine if
the content relates to the curriculum, school
standards and instructional objectives.

22. 2. Documental and technical support- when thinking of
acquiring or using a certain instructional software, look if
there is proper documentation and technical support about
the software.
Documentation refers to the information that may assist the teacher in the installation
of the software.
Technical support refers to the service that hardware, software and the company
provide whenever the user encounters technical problems upon installation, to repair
and other assistance needed whenever problems arise during the use of the software.
Criteria that can be considered in making rubrics:

23. 3. Ability and assessment- the teacher has to evaluate if
the software matches the ability level- students current
competency/skill level- in achieving a particular learning
outcome.
Criteria that can be considered in making rubrics:

24. 4. Technical quality and Ease of Use- teachers have to
consider the ff. when it comes to
technical quality: clarity of text, design, and multimedia
elements: correctness of prompts and feedback:
appropriateness of graphics, audio, sound effects ,
animation and video.
Criteria that can be considered in making rubrics:

26. References:
Nu-Man, M.R., and Porter, T.M., (2018). Igniting Your Teaching with Educational Technology A Resources for New Teachers.
Editors: Matt Rhoads & Bonni Stachowiak.
Y. Malini Reddy and Heidi Andrade, "A Review of Rubric Use in Higher Education," Assessment &
Evaluation in Higher Education 35, no. 4 (2010), 435–448.
https://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/assessment/explor_sub4.html#:~:text=Technology%20can%20help%20
teachers%20track,along%20from%20grade%20to%20grade.
https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/top-tech-tools-for-formative-assessment
https://www.slideshare.net/sethallen26/using-technology-to-assess-student-learning
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/9/a-rubric-for-evaluating-e-learning-tools-in-higher-education#fn2