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Jumpstarting Online Assessments
Online and Blended Learning, Assessment Strategies | K-12
As the move to online learning becomes more prevalent, traditional elements of instruction must also find their way into the online space. Moving assessments online provides a wealth of opportunity to empower student learning, but it presents specific challenges as well.
In this course, you'll examine how to effectively map out, design, and leverage a range of assessment types to maximize student learning over the course of a unit. Using educational technology tools, you can develop authentic formative and summative assessments, while tracking students' progress to inform future instruction. Additionally, you'll gain strategies for offering timely, meaningful feedback that fits the format and medium you're working in. Finally, you'll learn how to design online assessments that follow the best practices of accessibility to provide an equitable experience for all learners.
By incorporating dynamic, engaging online assessment into your class, you will be able to help your students navigate the online learning space and achieve the same standards as a face-to-face classroom.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Strategies for developing and implementing online assessments for students
- Tools for developing authentic formative and summative assessments
- Ways to provide regular and meaningful feedback to students online
- Procedures for administering diagnostic tests to track student growth
- Techniques for modifying assessments and providing accessibility to diverse learners
- Approaches for aligning lesson objectives with formative and summative assessment
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Compose online assessments that align with learning objectives in order to measure student outcomes.
- Evaluate methods and strategies for designing effective online assessment for a variety of contexts.
- Adapt online assessments to meet the needs of all learners using accessibility resources that address visual, auditory, and physical access barriers.
- Devise a plan for incorporating regular and relevant feedback via online tools to support student learning.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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