W3 Reading

Week 3 Action Research Readings

I saw the linoit.com Web 2.0 tool in my classmates blogs.  Wow, what a great tool!  I wanted to try it out for an organizational tool.   My intentions are to add past and future readings to this weeks reading assignment.  

1. Rubrics:  The Key to Fairness in Performance Based Assessments 

Technology can be a distraction when it comes to submitting technology projects.  Rubrics are a fair scoring guide to assess different learning styles and skill strengths to guide students of teacher expectations. This study will guide teachers with effectively using rubrics for performance-based assessments. In this study, the rubric outcomes focus on students' creative efforts, due date expectations, and self-assessments in place of traditional proofreading.

2. Using the Internet Assessment Tools for Health and Physical Education Instruction

In this study, physical education programs developed programs to increase student health-related awareness, by utilizing Internet assessment tools. Middle school students are held accountable for assessing their own nutritional intake and physical activity habits by using Internet assessment health-related tools.  The study focused on if technology motivated students and if technology was effective in this web-based project.

3. That’s Blog Worthy: Ten Ways to Integrate Blogging into the Health Education Classroom

Blogs are becoming more popular and are used for social interaction with strangers and peers for learning.  In this study, blogs are used for student engagement, and combining ideas and thoughts on health education content.  The objectives of this study are to have high school health students understand the the importance of blogging by defining the tool, creating a blog to learn health content, and post and respond to other students'.  Assessment strategies included detailed instructions and a rubric with clear expectations of the health blog project.

4. Using Technology in Helping Achieve 21st Century Skills: A Pilot Study

This pilot study examined 21st century technology skills of high school and university students in the Maine Administrative District.  It focused on eight  curriculum appendices. This eight appendices included:

-Results of the Education Testing Services ICT Literacy Assessment

-Project timeline and tasks

-teacher guides and resources

Pre-post assessments

-Websites used

-Student and teacher interview questions

-Rubric

Results demonstrated that students were better prepared for the 21st Century and display continuing progress of these skills.