Assessment and Evaluation

This article talks about how to use technology for assessment and evaluation purposes. The article talks about what Western Washington University is doing to incorporate NETS*T standards into our IT classes. For this reason, students in IT classes actually do what they are learning about. Also, the article talked about seven tools that IT classes at Western encourage their students to use. These said tools can (and hopefully will) be used later by the students when they are teachers for assessment and evaluation in the classroom. This article also clarified some concepts surrounding the “Assessment Decision-Making Process” and forms of evaluation that are generally misunderstood. This article also clarifies the difference between assessment methods and assessment technologies. The article also talks about the many different forms of assessment technology along with the Assessment Decision-Making Process which will be very valuable information for us, as teachers, to have when we are in the classroom someday.
I really like this article because it is directly related to me in more ways than one. This article connected a lot of previous knowledge from other classes as well as this current IT class. It was really interesting for me to see why I’m doing what I’m doing in a class. I usually don’t have the opportunity to be given such a solid reason for why I’m learning certain things in my classes.