Richard Smith
etec 424
Assessment activities are used to produce feedback on students and to show their knowledge and progression. Some assessments are tests, others are just check-ups as you complete through a series of events. Technology based assessments are used to make the data easier to manage and makes it able for the teacher to provide good feedback more often and quicker. The quicker the student gets feedback to quicker the student can respond to the feedback and the more often the feedback the better the results should be.
E-portfolios are bodies of work that address certain learning outcomes, they help teachers and students by keeping stuff organized and collected in a way for easy visibility. Computer based tests are tests done on a computer, whether the answers be multiple choice or open ended. Computer based tests can impact valitidity and reliability mostly in a negative way, because students who like to cheat on exams. If equipped with the right capabililty a teacher can set up a test to where the student cannot exit the screen for any reason or the test is forfeited. Also if the student is not being watched they could use their book, or use a partner to take the test with them, so the test wouldnt be testing their exact knowledge, which is the point of a test.
My personal opinion is computer based testing should not be allowed, I am more of a hands on type of person so when I teach I will walk around the room making sure nobody is cheating, but if I have to use computer based testing it will be more challenging because the views of the room will change and make the angles harder for the teacher to be completely aware of whats going on. I am interested to see how this e portfolio turns out, Ive collected stuff and kept it throughout the semester, but never on an e portfolio, so I'm interested to see how it works and whether I would like to use it for my classroom.
Jonassen, D. (2008). Meaningful learning with technology (pp. 218-239). Upper Saddle, NJ: Pearson.
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