Showcase an assessment created and include how the method was used to assess the validity, reliability, and security. Post the assessment in your blog.
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For any assessment - validity of the exam - is of the most important. Is the exam giving an accurate snapshot of what students know, understand, and can apply? Is the exam covering the standards as a whole and not just a section of the material? These are questions that we should ask ourselves as as we give exams. In my face to face classroom, I create the exam before I start teaching a unit so that it can drive my lessons. Before each exam, I review test questions to make sure material that I covered in the unit is evenly dispersed. I also make sure that my questions have basic, intermediate, and higher order questions so that all students are challenged.
I know that our grading and the test is reliable b/c I co-grade with my co-teachers. For every exam we sit down and we each take the exam in the allotted time. After wards we discuss each answer, (MC, Data, and Short answer) so that we can see the different angels that students may approach the questions. We decide on the answer(s) that are mist valid, and decide the point level that students might get depending on the depth of their answer (data and short answer questions). This is a tedious process, but by doing this we ensure that the grades across similar classes are reliable as we are all looking and grading for the same content. Another thing we do is we will often we will mix up our papers and grade each other's students so that there is not bias in our grading. In an online classroom, I can go back and look at student answer choices and can award credit for fill in the blank(where the vocab might be off, misspelled, etc) and short answers (I can give them credit based on the depth of their knowledge)
Security of a test is of up most importance as you want to test what students know and not what they can memorize. In the online classroom, security is kept in check because there is a time limit for the exams. Students do not have all day so they can not 'google' the answer. Another way security is handled is the questions are pulled at random - so students might not be taking the same test as their friend. We do this in the face to face classroom. I always create three versions of the test, mixing and even changing answer choices. This prevents students from having wondering eyes. I am also securing my test, by only posting the title and instructions on the blog post and not exposing the questions.
I know that our grading and the test is reliable b/c I co-grade with my co-teachers. For every exam we sit down and we each take the exam in the allotted time. After wards we discuss each answer, (MC, Data, and Short answer) so that we can see the different angels that students may approach the questions. We decide on the answer(s) that are mist valid, and decide the point level that students might get depending on the depth of their answer (data and short answer questions). This is a tedious process, but by doing this we ensure that the grades across similar classes are reliable as we are all looking and grading for the same content. Another thing we do is we will often we will mix up our papers and grade each other's students so that there is not bias in our grading. In an online classroom, I can go back and look at student answer choices and can award credit for fill in the blank(where the vocab might be off, misspelled, etc) and short answers (I can give them credit based on the depth of their knowledge)
Security of a test is of up most importance as you want to test what students know and not what they can memorize. In the online classroom, security is kept in check because there is a time limit for the exams. Students do not have all day so they can not 'google' the answer. Another way security is handled is the questions are pulled at random - so students might not be taking the same test as their friend. We do this in the face to face classroom. I always create three versions of the test, mixing and even changing answer choices. This prevents students from having wondering eyes. I am also securing my test, by only posting the title and instructions on the blog post and not exposing the questions.
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