Possible uses of formative assessment items:
JIT evaluation, immediate feedback, detailed analysis
The strong point of Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) is attention to detail. When it is helping with homework, it can ask questions and evaluate numbered or clicked answers. When it evaluates, it can give immediate feedback, record answers, and provide reports useful to teachers and students. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
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Students doing homework?
- We hope they are doing homework
- We can't see them. We can't encourage them. We can't help them.
- Unless they are online at the homework site.
- If the homework site is online, we know when they are there.
- We know how much time they spend.
- We can ask them questions and find out if the assignment is working.
- We can ask them questions and let them see how effective their study practice is.
- We can ask them questions and see who is having problems and what the problems are.
Formative assessment
- Formative assessment (Wikipedia)
- Formative assessment (search)
- Formative assessment aps
- Diagnostic rather than evaluative
- Guiding rather than grading
- Telling the teacher about the effectiveness of instructional materials
- Telling the student about the effectiveness of study practices
- Telling the teacher about students needing help
Possible functions of formative assessment items
For the teacher (aggregated)
- See how well the assigned lesson is meeting its learning objectives.
- Assumed: each lesson plan has learning objectives (or it would not be assigned).
- See how much time students are spending on the lesson.
- Anonymous data, no FERPA issues.
For the students
- See how effective their study effort has been.
- If it is quite effective they get the answers right and take satisfaction in that.
- If it is less effective they can try to improve on their own or seek help.
- For students with less effective study effort, DTA might offer help.
- Suggested actions are already available:
- How to improve study skills in college
- How to improve study skills in high school
- DTA can give help just when the student feels a need for it.
- DTA can help students know about effective span of attention for reading.
- No data collected, no FERPA issues
For the teacher (by individual student)
- Students identified: FERPA issues.
- The digital teacher assistant and FERPA: there are security issues
- With formative testing, DTA can identify students having problems.
- DTA has a record of how much time they spent on home work.
- DTA knows how much time a student spent on reading or watching a video.
- Attention span (Wikipedia)
DTA can also report item performance by cognitive level
- Assuming that the items are marked for cognitive level.
- Cognitive level of test questions
- BLOOM’S TAXONOMY AND THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF QUESTIONS
- Cognitive level of test questions
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