Projects as Formal Assessment
In my last post I shared how I hope to use screencasting on a regular basis (maybe weekly) for formal assessment. I think I can be successful with this since it will become a routine where students improve as the year progresses. And screencasting builds all sorts of skills in addition to just content. There are technology skills of course, but there is also a speaking and writing component as well as planning. However, I think I’d most like to include more authentic assessments and projects. These make great online assessments because the solutions are not Googleable and every student will come up with a different solution. I’m lucky that I typically teach content that lends itself well to this type of assignment. I teach statistics and consumer math. For statistics, I can ask learners to create visual data displays and run inference tests by choosing a random sample from a larger provided data set. Statistics problems are great because you can do so much with j...