9410 Technology and Assessment

It's difficult to know if you are improving student learning without some form of learning assessment. Learn how to assess specific types of knowledge, using technology to streamline and enhance the process. Explore innovative tools and means of assessment that help teachers individualize and differentiate instruction. You will develop technology-enhanced assessments to use in your classroom, based on Understanding by Design principles.
Note: Course was renumbered to 9458 effective Spring 2008.

It is important to be able to assess whether something is working or not. This course provided me with tools for assessment and helped me to understand what items to look at to determine whether the desired outcomes were occurring or not. Although my school district already uses the Electronic Alignment Tool created by the Show-Me Curriculum Administrator's Association SMCAA) and the University of Missouri's Instructional Materials Laboratory, this course provided me the opportunity to test drive the EAT Online. I found this to be very helpful and I will use my experiences to help in decision-making concerning our district going to the "online" version. The assignments on assessing curriculum were very valuable since part of my job duties is Curriculum Coordinator. The assessment checklists were helpful in analyzing our school's curriculum. The completion of the Performance Assessment pushed me to develop a lesson plan that made the use of technology meaningful. I also gained resources to provide to my teachers after working with Electronic Portfolio comparisons. I have a wealth of resources for assessment of learning after completing this course.