Educators understand and use data to drive their instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals. The program shall prepare candidates who:
(i) Provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency and reflect on their learning using technology;
(ii) Use technology to design and implement a variety of formative and summative assessments that accommodate learner needs, provide timely feedback to students and inform instruction; and
(iii) Use assessments and other qualitative and quantitative data to guide progress and communicate with students, parents, and education stakeholders to build student self-direction.
Instructional strategies that work are student-centered and combine with differentiation strategies to create personalized instruction for maximized student growth. This program required analysis of strategies, programs, lesson, and much more as part of building our repertoire to meet this standard and all of its components.
The instructional design assessment below indicates multiple techniques for students to demonstrate their knowledge with research-based questions and scenarios. The variety of assessment sources were then used to analyze the needs of students to improve instruction in the future and to design remediation needed for those students based on the work they submitted. All assessments were designed with intention and answer choices had predetermined explanations for why a student might choose one of the incorrect answers. Having designed these assessments with analysis in mind, I was able to easily read the data for use in differentiation with those particular students.
Included in my resources is also an online learning module assessment analysis. It thoroughly describes the results and learning objectives. The data and its uses for instructional follow-up are included in the report with raw data and analysis charts. The assignment required that I demonstrate all areas of the analyst standard listed above.
Click the link above to access the webpage with embedded assessments designed for the Instructional Design Unit.