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Showing posts with label assessment tips. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Tips for Making Group Projects Work

 

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Making Group Projects Work

The 5 Students You Meet in Group Projects

Elizabeth Hoyt’s article sorts out group work personality types while offering helpful suggestions on how to cope with the quirks of student performance.

Online Students Don't Have to Work Solo

Mark Liberman explains how well-designed online group work helps students learn the curriculum while they practice essential real-world productive collaboration skills.

How to Run Effective Group Projects in Online Education

Laura Lynch’s job-oriented article emphasizes the value of online group projects to simulate 'real-life work scenarios' that demand both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration skills.  

Give Every Student a Stake in Group Work

Are you looking for well a well-produced round-up of video series tips on group work? You found it. Scroll down the page for a set of thoughtful articles about this complex topic.

Four Ways to Structure a Winning Elearning Production Team

Kirsite Greany provides spot-on advice for Instructional Design teams tasked with creating elearning content. The emphasis is on defining and matching a team member's skills with the necessary roles needed to get the job done.

Three Ways to Improve Your Group Work Lesson Plan

Jeff Knutson describes the importance of restructuring student roles into interdependent shared ownership experiences to transform group work into true teamwork.

Teamwork and Group Project Rubrics

Jump to our Teamwork and Group Project Rubrics for timely tips.

Tech Tip

75 Digital Tools and Apps Teachers Can Use to Support Formative Assessment in the Classroom

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Friday, September 11, 2020

Rubrics Clarify the task - for teachers and students!

 

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EDUC 762 Assessment in E-learning

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"Going through each piece for the final project has given me the opportunity to see how much I have changed from formal, traditional assessments to much more authentic learning activities and hands-on assessments."
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EDUC 648 Math Assessment for Response to Intervention (RtI)

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Rubrics

Creating and Using Rubrics for Assessment.
Learn more about rubrics and alternative assessments. Find what you need by exploring dozens of categories and rubric examples

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything: Assessment Rubrics  
Rubrics, especially those that are revised as you use them, age very well.  Kathy Schrock gives us a deep archive of rubrics that she updates regularly.

Video Project Rubric
UW-Stout's most popular rubric. Includes design, production quality, and captioning.  

Elementary Teamwork Rubric
Help your kids understand assessment criteria as they work together on end of the year projects.

Online Discussion Rubric
This rubric describes practices in the online classroom. Here you’ll find well-crafted criteria for Critical Analysis, Community Participation, Etiquette, and Quality of Writing.

EPortfolio (Digital Portfolio) Rubric
What makes an exemplary EPortfolio? This rubric will show you the way.

Game Rubric: Assessing Student Learning in Virtual Simulations and Serious Games
A grading rubric created by Ann Bell with six performance criteria.

Tech Tip

Show Me, don't tell me: Quick Rubric Video Tutorial from Richard Byrne

Byrne demonstrates how to use the free online tool Quick Rubric in a five-minute video.

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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Emergency Toolkit: Can you hear me now? Audio Feedback. Formative and Summative Assessment Ideas

Emergency Toolkit: Audio Feedback. Formative and Summative Assessment Ideas
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In this issue...

1. Register for a Fall Online Course
2. Creating Audio Feedback
3. Tech Tip: Using Vocaroo to Make Voice Recordings

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Edutopia: Formative Assessment in Distance Learning by Andrew Miller

Schools are closed but schooling goes on, and it remains crucial that teachers find ways to see what students are learning.

Creating Effective Audio Feedback
Explore the benefits of incorporating audio feedback to build stronger instructor-learner connections. Discover free audio tools that quickly record comments-- often in less time than it takes to write them.
‘Speaking to Students’ with Audio Feedback
Debbie Morrison explains how to use a voice recorder app and Evernote to provide meaningful and useful feedback.  
Using Asynchronous Audio Feedback to Enhance Teaching Presence and Students’ Sense of Community(PDF)
Philip Ice and others share results of a study which found that students who received audio feedback “overwhelmingly” preferred audio over written feedback, and felt it increased perceptions of instructor caring as well as the sense of involvement in the course.  
Audio- the Personal Touch in Online Courses
Alastair Creelman reports on a study by Cavanaugh and Song which found that students in a composition course were more positive about receiving audio versus written feedback. Instructors tended to provide more global commentary via audio and more local commentary via written feedback.  
Teacher’s Visual Guide on Giving Audio Feedback to Students on Google Drive
Med Kharbach provides the steps to add audio comments to any Google document.  
Kaizena Adds Support for Giving Audio Feedback on Google Presentations
Richard Byrne describes how the Kaizena tool embedded in Google Drive allows instructors to add audio comments to Google presentations.  
Tech Tip: Using Vocaroo to Make Voice Recordings 
(video 2:41 minutes) YouTube
This shows how to use the free Web-based recording tool Vocaroo to create audio recordings and export hyperlinked files, QR codes, MP3, or WAV files.    
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