Design and Development of Educational Technology

<div class="xblock xblock-public_view xblock-public_view-vertical" data-init="VerticalStudentView" data-request-token="2cbf77f62fec11f1a0620affdc2c279f" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-block-type="vertical" data-course-id="course-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017" data-has-score="False" data-usage-id="block-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017+type@vertical+block@0b41758920344df2bb99479055ef7fdc" data-runtime-version="1" data-graded="False"> <h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">Assignment 5.1 Thinking About Assessment</h2> <div class="vert-mod"> <div class="vert vert-0" data-id="block-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017+type@html+block@115095fcc497429689d52f2101d43115"> <div class="xblock xblock-public_view xblock-public_view-html xmodule_display xmodule_HtmlBlock" data-init="XBlockToXModuleShim" data-request-token="2cbf77f62fec11f1a0620affdc2c279f" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-block-type="html" data-course-id="course-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017" data-has-score="False" data-usage-id="block-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017+type@html+block@115095fcc497429689d52f2101d43115" data-runtime-version="1" data-graded="False"> <script type="json/xblock-args" class="xblock-json-init-args"> {"xmodule-type": "HTMLModule"} </script> The goal of this assignment is to challenge you to think like an assessment designer and to round out your pitch to include some useful tools to measure progress. You will get to use your own project as a context for figuring out how best to measure learning gains, engagement, or the skills you’ve decided to teach. Refine Your Learning Goals You identified a learning challenge that your educational technology will address. Revisit your work and make sure your learning goals are clear. Can you concisely state the goals for your product? Why are those your goals? Have these goals evolved as your product has developed? Write them out in a bulleted list that you can reference. Design Your Assessments & Display Your Data How will you know that learners have reached those goals, or if they are headed in the right direction? Is there evidence that comes from data captured by the technology itself, or are there external tools of some kind which capture data from users? Figure out what form your assessment will take. You want to be confident that your collected information will really be indicative of a student’s progress. Assessments for foreign language vocabulary, math practices, or grit could look very different from each other, so make sure the format is appropriate to what you are trying to measure. Remember the definitions of formative, summative, and performance assessment. Try to design something that serves its purpose well. Don’t be afraid to have multiple types of assessment if you feel it is appropriate and meaningful. Think about to whom your data is useful and for what purpose. Is it for a teacher to assign a grade, a parent to support learning at home, or the student herself to be aware of progress made? Depending on the audience and uses, decide on a delivery format. This might be one synthesized score, a large data table, or a narrative comment, and it would almost certainly vary depending on the content of each assessment you’re building in. This course is about innovative technologies so be creative in your approach! For the deliverable: Your work will consist of two parts. You may also want to link to your previously posted project description for people that need background on what your educational technology is all about. <ul> <li>Part 1: This will be a 1-page summary of your Assessment Plan. List the refined learning goals and describe each measure you are using to assess progress towards each goal. Explain how you will collect data, what that data means, and how it is useful.</li> <li>Part 2: This is a mockup of the data display for at least one measure you are using. Specify who the audience is and create an image of the tables, text, or other visuals that will convey the assessment results. </li> </ul> Guidance for Gathering Peer Feedback: Seek out feedback from at least three people you know. <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4px; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ask them to f<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4px; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">ollow the Peer Review Feedback guidelines and consider the following: <ul style="line-height: 25.6px;"> <li>Did you lay out the learning goals clearly?</li> <li>Are the assessments thoughtfully designed to get at each learning goal?</li> <li>Will the displayed data be informative and easy to understand for the intended audience? Can the intended audience get a picture of how the learner is doing and where they may need support? Ask your reviewers to try to think about this from the viewpoint of the intended audience.</li> <li>Are the proposed assessments more traditional or innovative in their design? What are the benefits and drawbacks of that choice?</li> </ul> <p style="text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.41575em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(49, 49, 49);"><strong style="text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Record the feedback you've gathered from each of your three reviewers in your digital course journal or blog so you can iterate on your work based on their suggestions or concerns. </div> </div> </div> </div>