Rationale
Data Driven Education
Regular data collection ensures that all students are receiving instructional material specifically targeted to their needs.
Data collection does not simply mean evaluating answers on a test. Some of the most effective data that can be collected is consistent, short check-ins to evaluate student social and emotion progress along with academic understanding.
Exit tickets and formative assessments are not a revolutionary idea as they have been common practice for some time now (Marzano, 2012). What has changed however, is the way in which exit tickets are administered and data is subsequently obtained.
Whereas traditionally exit tickets have been assessed by hand by the classroom teacher (Marzano, 2012), advancements in digital technology have opened the door for exit tickets to be administered via a digital platform and have enabled the sharing of instant feedback to the student.
How Does Ziplet Add Value to the Learn Marketplace?
This is where Ziplet comes in. As a digital tool that contains both a mobile and browser-based application, the teacher is able to leverage the technology afford to them to quickly administer exit tickets that can address a variety of student needs.
Where Ziplet differs from other platforms, is the way in which it collects and stores data. The actual process of administering the exit ticket can be done in a multitude of ways from a variety of different platforms, but while data collected from similar digital platforms provides instant feedback to the student, Ziplet accomplishes this along with automatically generating a database and dashboard that organizes and conveys this information to the teacher or instructor.
How Does Ziplet Benefit Me?
As an investor, Ziplet offers my school the ability to provide feedback quickly and efficiently and communicate any perceived problems to parents or any relevant party (learning specialist, counselors, administrators, etc.)
Personal Example
A common piece of feedback that my institution has been looking to remedy is regular communication of academic progress with relevant stakeholders in order to address any identified areas of improvement in a timely manner.
For example, earlier this month, an assessment was given in an elementary math class. The majority of students failed the assessment. This came as a shock to both the teacher and the parents as the weeks leading up to the assessment, no information was communicated about the progress of the students because no meaningful procedure for collecting feedback and communicating it existed. The result was an understandably frustrated group of parents and a teacher scrambling for answers.
Ziplet allows for teachers to gain access to the progress of even the quietest student and share meaningful feedback with parents. In today’s classrooms where teachers are pulled in multiple different directions, they are in desperate need of a user-friendly tool to assist in the process.
