Caveats of Technology
Assessment

Focus on the Students!
Student
Centered
Teaching and Learning
Student Centered
Practices
100
Creating content and curricula to support student learning using digital technologies.
What are standards?
100
This informal process is ongoing and used throughout the entire lesson. It provides insight for teachers about students’ strengths, as well as areas needing improvement.  
What is formative assessment?
100
Students use performance targets, progress checks, and revise their work, based on feedback from teachers and assessments.
What is effective self-assessment?
100
Scaffolding, differentiated instruction, support for special needs, and revision opportunities provide this (p. 31-32).  
What are appropriate challenge levels?
100
This can vary, depending on “specific local conditions and priorities” of classrooms, teams, and the community (p. 15)”.
What are student centered learning environments?
200
These are short-term and long-term caveats when using digital technologies, such as infrastructures of schools needing to be “modernized”.  
What is cost?
200
A measures of student achievement throughout the school year which is given periodically; the purpose is to collect data for stakeholders so they may adjust instruction or curriculum accordingly.
What is interim assessment?
200
A collection of students work to show progress, and highlights their strengths. They consist of organized and carefully selected artifacts selected by both student and teacher. What is portfolio assessment?  
What is portfolio assessment?
200
For learning to take place, these must first be established (p. 22).  
What is trust, respect, and inclusiveness?
200
This practice includes the following eight core elements: relationships, choice, leveled challenges, social/emotional support, real-world experiences, technology, timely assessment, life-long learning (p. 19). What is the teaching practice in student-centered leaning?    
What is the teaching practice in student-centered leaning?
300
On-going training for teachers to keep abreast of new technologies.
What is professional development?
300
This test is an accountability measure that is given at the end of a unit, semester, or school year, to categorize students’ performance and guide the decision-making process for making improvements.
What is summative assessment?
300
This is created when students are in an inquiry based setting, while learning about the world around them.
What is curiosity?
300
This “corresponds with the affective or emotional capabilities of the most central regions of the nervous system” (p. 82).
What are multiple means of engagement?
300
Many experts believe technologies limit this “emotional work” that needs to take place in learning environments.
What are human relationships and social learning?
400
These give the “illusion” that schools are progressive with technology.  
What are “poorly conceived tools” (p. 97).
400
These tests are the least student-centered. They measure nationwide performance and are used for K-12 accountability.  
What are norm-referenced (large scale) assessments?
400
Adults meet on a regular basis to support students’ “social, emotional, and academic development” (p. 21)
What is Teacher-Student Advisement?
400
These tasks include personal learning plans, choice, and opportunities to demonstrate the mastery of learning in different forms (p. 26-30).
What is student personalization and choice in “curriculum and instructional tasks”?
400
This is required for student-centered teaching to “come about” (p. 19).
What is a “cultural shift”?
500
The limited access to technology is know as...  
What is the digital divide?
500
This is a system that uses three types of assessment to support student-centered learning.
What is a balanced assessment system?
500
Originally, this was used for helping individuals with disabilities, but became a researched based “movement” to ensure that all students’ needs were being met in education.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
500
Instruction centered around students’ needs (p. 19)?
What is student-centered learning?
500
This study examined these for “enacting student-centered learning” (p. 17).
What are the “Research School: Six Exemplars of Everyday Practice”?  
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