Posts Tagged ‘assessment’
Automated Invisible Assessment with metacog
5 Keys to Assessment Literacy
At Victory, we have been developing many kinds of assessments. Whether the assessment is high-stakes summative testing, a performance-based task, or formative student self-assessment, assessment has a huge impact on classroom instruction. This means assessment literacy is a critical tool for teachers as they develop curriculum and apply classroom strategies. What Is Assessment Literacy? What does…
Read MoreRead MoreA Revolutionary Interactive Lesson
In our last blog on performance tasks, we revealed our instructional design approach to creating a social studies performance task, The Boston Massacre. In this blog, we’ll explain why we expanded the performance task to become an interactive lesson, with embedded performance tasks. So, this is really an evolution, not a revolution. Here is a sneak preview…
Read MoreRead MoreEdTech: Long-Term Convergences
As we leap ahead in the EdTech era, we wanted to look back a moment and put EdTech in perspective. This video explains three long-term convergences we see: convergence of content and interactivity through technology; convergence of what had been isolated “silos” of curriculum; and convergence of instruction and assessment, which had been distinct phases of the education process.
Read MoreRead MoreWriting TEI (Technology-Enhanced Item)
Here is another TEI (technology-enhanced item) Victory has developed for English language arts. We are trying to push the envelope on interactivity, but we need to keep within the framework of the PARCC and SBAC assessments that students will soon encounter. Please take 2 minutes to watch the video; then play with the prototype Writing TEI here.
Read MoreRead MoreTEI (Technology-Enhanced Item) for EBSR
Common Core assessments are going digital. We’ve made great progress in developing exciting technology-enhanced items (TEIs) for math and science. You can do so much with TEIs in these disciplines because it’s all about the math. But what about making TEIs for English language arts (ELA)? That’s a bit of a problem, because ELA is too open ended—there…
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