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A blog post that presents a graph giving one representation of where certain skills and knowledge sit along two axes - "difficulty to assess" and "learning in a networked world". The argument is that most assessment in formal education focuses on content knowledge and basic skills.  Rather than on more important but more difficult to assess knowledge and skills. It might not be 100% correct, but it's good food for thought. What are you teaching and assessing in your teaching?  What am I doing?

Paper talking about rich assessment tasks. Some nice examples of problems with assessment and some examples of rich assessment tasks.

Collection of resources around assessment for an Australian context

I really see value in changing the point system mindset when assessing students

Researchers are looking into how well "stealth assessments" embedded in video games could help measure less tangible qualities like creativity and persistence.

Researchers are looking into how well "stealth assessments" embedded in video games could help measure less tangible qualities like creativity and persistence.

I played the maths challenge Dragonbox, and was just going to spend a few minutes on this game but I found it fun to keep going and work out how to continue with the problems when I got stuck, until I understood the concept that the challenge was teaching. In a way I was trying to be creative in solving these problems along the way and was learning as well. This idea could be carried on outside the came creating my own idea of Algebra using everyday items. I think that when learning is taking place creativity and innovation are not far behind. Dragonbox http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/technology/personaltech/with-apps-children-can-play-the-game-of-math.html?_r=0

American project looking at developing mathematic assessments that move beyond traditional methods.

Hi Everyone. I have blogged about a resource to incorporate ICTs in Assessment. Feel free to check it out at the link above.

This article provides definitions for formative and summative assessment and includes 55 ways to check for understanding

This really helped me with some creative assessment ideas.

ICT Assessment Rubrics plus so much more

If you look at Hattie's research (I posted earlier today) you will see Formative assessment as one of the big influencers on student learning. I posed the question - 'how do ICT's feed into this?'. Here's one example ... (well, 8 examples ...)

This resource is excellent as a method of formative assessment or as a teaching strategy in the classroom to track students progress. Students are able to answer various questions, and through this identify and reflect on how well their learning is going within a topic. I will probably blog about this in my assignment as it is an excellent resource that I've used before. 

Journal paper that talks about a particular use of ICT in learning. May be referenced a bit in the week 2 learning path to touch on "why" ICT is used with pedagogy. *Abstract* Slowmation is a twenty-first century digital literacy educational tool. This teaching and learning tool has been incorporated as an assessment strategy in the curriculum area of science and mathematics with pre-service teachers (PSTs). This paper explores two themes: developing twenty-first century digital literacy skills and modelling best practice assessment tools. In the growing debate about the impact of multi-model representations, researchers such as Hoban and Nielsen, and Brown, Murcia and Hackling emphasise the development of conceptual understandings and semiotics. This paper focuses on PSTs' experiences of and reflections on Slowmation as an educational tool. Data was collected from a cohort of final year PSTs who created, presented and reflected on their Slowmation process.

Great for a design unit - students can create an educational game in small groups and be assessed on the final product

A popular, quick assessment technique that could be combined with online surveys/clickers.

Not directly related to ICTs, but definitely pedagogy and some of these can be enhanced through ICTs.

Good ideas for Formative assessment tasks