Technology for Assessment
Staff Development Guide
Training Situation: Meeting (small group)
Length: 35 minutes
Objective: Participants will evaluate technology that can be used for assessment purposes within lessons.
Agenda:
- Introduction – 5 minutes
- See the skill in action – 10 minutes
- Generating ideas – 20 minutes
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What the activity overview video. This video shows staff facilitating the activity featured in the skill video.
As you watch the skill video below, think about these questions:
- What does Lemond say is the benefit of using this app for an informal assessment?
- How does Lemond use the youth responses to inform his instruction?
Now that you’ve watched the video, reflect on what you saw.
- Lemond has access to iPads for the youth. How could you use a similar assessment technique without access to this type of technology?
- How do you make informal assessments of what youth are learning during and after STEM learning experiences?
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