Module 1: Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners with Technology
Assessment
Creating effective and useful assessments of language, content, and technology is one of the more difficult aspects of instruction. Technology can make it easier to provide students with a variety of ways to show that they have met task or lesson objectives by allowing teachers to save, revise, collaborate, and share assessments. Read this short overview of assessment information and guidelines.
Task 1: Creating a Rubric
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Choose objectives for a lesson you may teach or have already taught. (see Objectives under Module 1 for more information).
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Go to rubistar.4teachers.org and fill complete the basic information to get started.
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Choose the category of rubric that best matches the objectives you want to measure.
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Change the rubric to use the criteria from your objectives and the point values that each criterion is worth (you can also use the "search" feature to find rubrics that have already been created by other teachers). Use student suggestions for criteria.
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Print your rubric or log in to save it.
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Use it with students and revise as needed.
Task 2: Making a Quiz
Although quizzes are not generally a type of authentic assessment (because it is rare in "real" life to actually take a quiz), they have their uses. If you decide to use a quiz as a form of assessment,
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Review the task or lesson objectives.
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Go to proprofs.com (use the FREE public version) or another free quizmaker on the Web.
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Create your quiz, using the type of question that is most appropriate for evaluating your objectives. Students can also supply quiz questions!
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Save and give the quiz to students.
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Review questions on the quiz that may be problematic and revise them for the next iteration of this quiz.