MTI 562 Week 5: Assessment

Our Second Grade students were asked to use Microsoft Publisher to make a 4 page booklet to showcase information they had researched about the city they live in. These are the criteria I will be grading their projects by, based on Jacqui Murray's 14 Factors to Consider for Tech Report Cards :

• Does s/he remember skills from prior lessons as they complete current lessons? The office ribbon is the same or similar – did they transfer knowledge from Word & Powerpoint?
• Does s/he save to their network folder? Can I find the finished product in their folder on the 2nd Grade Drive?
• Does s/he try to solve tech problems themselves before asking for teacher help? How many times did they put their brick up?
• Does s/he use core classroom knowledge (i.e., writing conventions) in tech projects? Did they capitalize proper nouns and beginning of sentences?
• Does s/he use the internet safely? Did they go to Bing Images and stay there as directed, or did they wander around? Did they check that picture were from Bellevue, WA not Bellevue somewhere else?
• Does s/he [whichever Common Core Standard is being pursued by the use of technology. It may be ‘able to identify shapes’ in first grade or ‘able to use technology to add audio’ in fourth grade]? Did they illustrate publication using digital tools?
• Has student progressed at keyboarding skills? When I caught them using both hands to type the text they earned a ticket.
• Anecdotal observation of student learning (this is subjective and enables me to grade students based on effort). How much effort did they put in, how much did they help other students around them? How far above and beyond did they go (e.g. adding frames to photos)?
• Grades on tests, quizzes, projects. What is the quality of the finished product – do all 4 pages have the required content in the correct place?