379C - Assessment

Assessment with Student-Centered Tools

Session Description: Are you looking for ways to make your formative and summative assessments more effective? Join us to learn how to use Flipgrid, PowerPoint, Whiteboard, Forms, and Sway to create effective assessments throughout your units. Whether it's formative or summative assessment, finding ways to effectively measure students' understanding is crucial to ensure student progress and future success. In this session, we will explore how you can use free Office and other Microsoft products to create better formative and summative assessments that reliably measure student learning, promote critical thinking, and help students develop real-world skills.

This session is for teachers at ALL technology comfort levels.

As a result of this session teachers will:

      1. Understanding the purposes of and differences between formative and summative assessment;

      2. Review several formats of assessment for their usefulness to assess student learning; and

      3. Identify a variety of assessment methods and begin planning for their use in the classroom.

Applicable ISTE Standards for Educators (2017)*: 1A; 1B; 7A

* The text of these standards is copyrighted. Please read the full text at the ISTE Standards page.

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