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Assessment Using Technology

Technology helps teachers to assess students' performance effectively. Visit the links below to see how technology can be used for performance assessment.

Articles of Using Technology for Performance Assessment

Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios: This site contains article and eportfolio resources from Dr. Barrett, a leading eportfolio researcher.

Improving Assessment with Technology: It generally covers how technology can be used to improve assessment in the classroom.

Electronic Portfolios for Assessment: Apple’s site provides good downloadable assessment eportfolio examples.

Facts and Assumptions of Assessment:Technology, The Missing Link by Wayne Moore, Ed.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Using Data to Drive Student Achievement in the Classroom and on High-Stakes Tests by Greg Decker, Ed.D., Principal, Leas Mine Elementary, Lead Mine, NC

Using technology to Assess Technology: Teachers can use electronic survey tools to assess how they incorporate technology to promote learning.

Using Online Assessment Tools to Facilitate Teaching and Learning: This provides an audio file and handout that illustrate how online assessment tools can be used in Blackboard.

Examples of Using Technology for Performance Assessment

Case study of Strawberry Creek: This case study was presented in AERA 1999, Montreal, Canada, by Baumgartner (1999, April 22). For assessing students' performance, various modeling tools (i.e. Inspiration, Stella, Model-It) were used. It was reported that using modeling tools made students' thinking visible and changed the way of assessing students' learning.

WISE (The Web-based Inquiry Science Environment): WISE, which is supported by the National Science Foundation, is a free online science learning environment for grades 4 to 12. It was designed to support students' inquiry by letting them design, debate, and critique solutions on the World Wide Web! Teachers easily assess students' performance as a part of WISE projects within this WISE system.

Using STELLA to Learn Ecological Concepts in a Non-Major's Biology Course: This is a case study using a modeling software, STELLA, for learning concepts. It explains the assessment strategy with technology and the results in this case.