This week one of my assignments from my mentor was to check out the lessons and complete some of the student assignments. I have completed two assignments and I didn't realize that it would immediately provide feedback on the assessment. What a great feature! I also really like the fact that it breaks the course down into three sections in the grade book and that students can see exactly where they stand at all times.
In our last phone conference we talked about integrity being an extremely important aspect of the program. One thing I noticed on the assessments is the warning - "WARNING: You must not leave this exam form! If you try to click back into this exam again prior to submitting, your access to it will be denied!" Just to test the system I wanted to see if in the Mozilla Firefox browser if it would flag something if I opened different tabs with one being the lesson and the other being the assessment. I was surprised that it allowed me to do so and didn't cancel my assessment.
Have any of you tested out features in the virtual school that have caught your attention?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
I have checked into the Assessments portion as well. The one thing I think would be great would be to give an explanation if the student got a problem wrong. With students being able to resubmit, this is not an option though. Maybe providing an example for students to see would give them another chance to fix their mistake and learn from it.
It was fun being the student in a middle school again. I also was pleased to find immediate feedback on the multiple-choice type questions, and am waiting for written feedback from the teacher. In science, I hear there is one virtual lab that I will look for next week and try out. I will write about it then in my own blog.
My host teacher told me she conducts oral quizzes over the telephone every other module. She feels this is an excellent way to be certain that the student has done their own work.
I also checked on the ability to open additional browsers or programs while taking the assessment and had no problems. I know many traditional students do their work and can do well on test, but never really figure out how to setup and solve problems using the resources available. I hope technology allows us to teach students how to learn, research and apply information. For many professional positions you don't have to know the answer off the top of your head, but you do need to know how to find the answer and how to evaluate the information you find for accuracy. These are skills that some students do not acquire.
Post a Comment