Assessment and Evaluation

Session 21

Assessment and Evaluation

Performance Assessment must be:

• Performance based
• Generative
• Seamless and ongoing
• Equitable

Indicators of High Technology Performance

The most important element of performance assessment is engagability. To evaluate your project you need to know how well your use of technology allowed your students:

• to be engrossed in challenging learning
• to learn by doing
• to be able to use the computer effectively to diagnose where he is and what he should do next

Questions to Ask Yourself to Evaluate Performance Assessment Tool

• Did your assessment engage learners in a real-world task or application?
• Did your assessment allow students an equal opportunity to perform?
• Did you assessment allow students to use higher-level thinking and problem solving skills?
• Did your assessment allow students to achieve one criteria while advancing to another?
• Did you create a rubric to evaluate the students' progress throughout the task?
• Did you allow the students to help develop goals and criteria for the evaluation of the task?

For information on this topic you can click here for the article What Does Research Say About Assessment. This is a very good article, but long.

Evaluation