Evaluation Learning

How does it work for the teacher, classmates and yourself? The teacher use blogger as a platform where the students’ products can be checked easily, instructions, advices and indications are specified in a main blog controlled by the teacher so students are able to interpret information in one only way due to the clarity and authenticity of information. The relation between classmates sharing their blogs is a huge feedback device, interactions turns into something necessary to make a significant progress in the classroom. An atmosphere of respect is essential for healthy interaction, a space where ideas and opinions can be shared to improve. In my own experience this blog has become a new experience in the process of teaching and learning, I could show my perspective and look for new opinions from my partners. This blog is a digital portfolio in my opinion and to be honest is the first time that I use it for an academic purpose. To what extent does it match in practice what you ...

Concept Maps, Rubrics and Portfolios as Formative Assessment Tools (video) Introduction  This video is related with the types of assessment and how as teachers we can get some help from different tools to assess the everydat activities in order to reach the learning for our students. Infromation is taken from the blog and hand outs provided by the teacher with a final conclusion that envolves my perspective from the topic. Conclusion To make thei video was very difficult because i had to put many terms together to understand the topic. I t was hard to see the relation between the tools and the types of assessment and how it works in the classroom as a team.

Formative vs Summative Assessment (video) Introducción In the following video im covering the terms formative and summative assessment. The reltion between them, the differences and the way in what they work are presented in the video. Perspectives for the use of each kind of assessment are included in the end. The information for this video was taken from the blog "Academic Issues". Conclusion  Making this video helped me to understand these important terms when evaluating. To contrast these terms i had to identify characteristics of each one and then decide which one was the most efficient in the classroom.

Rubistar Introduction The following rubric has been made in the rubistar platform to evaluate oral presentations  about experiences in institutions which use constructivism. The rubric contains seven aspects to grade in a scale from one to 4, the items to evaluate are: Tone, Volume, Posture and Eye Contact, Vocabulary, Content, Comprehension and Understanding of the topic. Conclusion The platform called rubistar is one of a kind, it can really help you to develope a useful rubric wich is trustworthy to evaluate. My main issue when making ribrics was to find the right elements to consider and instead of create every aspect and grade it ribistar helped me assigning real measures considering the kind of activity and the skill that is supposed to be evaluated.

Summative and Formative Assessment Introduction The next mind map exposes the differences between sumative and formative assessment numbering their characteristics. The information for the elaboration the present mind map was taken from the essay "Formative and Summative Assessment" by Sandra Myers. Conclusion When givig classes sometimes we as teachers need to know how we are going to evaluate our students and what kind of resources will help us to measure the learning that our students are receiving from the classes. We could consider summative assessment as a final overall evaluation and formative assessment as a constant evaluation of the different products. 

Concept Maps, Rubrics and Portfolios as Formative Assessment Tools Introduction In this mind map im integrating three elements as part of a formative assessment. Each tool has its own characteristics to be considered as a meaningful aspect in the assessment process. In order to lead the activities to evaluating terms different perspectives are considered from every tool. Conclusion As teachers our main worry is to make students learn and we need some help to know how well the teaching is going. Rubrics, Concept Maps and Portfolios are our friends when we are assessing student during the course. They can show us thhe progress of every students and let us know how the information is being received for them so we can improve our teaching.