Mind-blenders’ blog contains the compendium of personal insights and learnings about the modules being initiated in an actual learning place. The workforce of student's response helps in getting the determinant of teacher's strategies to be used inferring from the multiple responses and as an immediate correspondent we have compiled these different modules channeling our group's converging ideas. The ideologies presented are covered by the safety parameters of opinionated but fact-based ideas lest barred in to biases led by discriminative and prejudicial means however is discouraged. as you browse in the content you will learn how a learner battle for learning and how does it takes for a strategic teacher to rescue the student's menace in falling in the quagmire of ignorance.
- To present our profound blended ideas about the learning in our course content (Assessment on Learning) and to impart our knowledge to the blog viewers.
- To accentuate our reflections on our learning activities which will prove to be an integral part of the our e-portfolio
- To endow with multiple levels of learning evidence and demonstrate what a student knows and how he uses this knowledge.
- To gauge a student’s progress by showing samples and records that yield the information needed to produce an overview of student achievement over the course of the year.
The significance of this e-portfolio is to aware the students of what’s the topic all about. Not only that, it shows how the study would help the incoming and deserving mentors for their future. Learning new things and lessons adds up the knowledge that students can contribute for the betterment of our society. It’s a way of paying back of what you have learned and continuing pursuing what you had learned. And also through the help of technology, its innovative of learning the more precisely intended study since we are in the world of new technology, we just don’t help ourselves but also the needy others.
Having this online blogging activity requires a lot more effort of the group to create an informative and edifying blog for everyone. Right after the announcement regarding the said activity given by Prof. Ava Clare Marie Robles, the group then had a meeting on the topic of how to come up a blog that is really an educational one.
Being aware of the individual’s competence of the group, the group decided who will be the editor-in-chief, associate editor-in-chief, web designers, and the blog researchers. After that, the group divided the tasks and performed the assigned tasks.
Schedule of Activity
Along with the duration of our blog making, here are the schedules of the said activity:
December 5,2011
Maam Robles announced that we are going to form a group consisting of 5 to 6 members. At first, we don’t know what is the purpose of having a grouping. But later on, she told us that we will going to create a E-learning blog. Afterwards, she gave us her blog site to browse some of the examples that was created by her past students. And in this day, we also created our groupname “the Blue Lighters”.
December 6,2011
We had a meeting with regards to our blog. Meribel and Jaerah who are the editors, present that the following should be the content of our blog.
December 15,2011
Before we end up our class for Christmas vacation, Maam Robles told us to browse her blog to be guided on the blog samples that was created by her students. And she also added that, all the assign or given assignment in the coursesite must be pass before December 30.
January 16,2012
This day, we had a meeting with regards in our blog. Meribel then added that we must work together and help one another so that we will have a good and comprehensive output.
January 29,2012
Jaerah, who is our main editor, announce that we must have to view the blog samples in order for us to be guided and to know what will be the content of our blog.
February 16, 2012
Meribel call our attention and then she added that she will going to assign a particular module in which we will going to create our personal insights or reflections on the said modules. Some of us did the reflections by two while other creates the introduction and edit the templates of or blog.
February 18,2012
Is the deadline for our assign task that was given to Meribel so that she could display or place the inputs in or blog.
February 21,2012
Meribel and Jaerah finalize our blog. Annieve was assign to create our disclaimer. Meanwhile, Michelle and Divina are the one who assigned in checking our work.
March 6, 2012
This day is the preliminary checking of our blog that is to be checked by Maam Robles.
March 8,2012
In order for us to be acquainted with our exam in LET. Maam Robles let us download the document in the coursesite.
March 19,2012
This day will suppose to be our blog presentation but due to some occurrences, Maam Robles moved the schedule and it will be held on March 22. And she then added that each member of the group must contribute a sort of explanation about the inputs thaw we have in the blog.
March 22, 2012
The day of our presentation. We went to the function room to discuss or present our blog. But because of some occurrences Maam Robles call the attention of those people who did the blog. After their meeting, the blog format was change. And on this day, Meribel assigned each one of us to help her in doing the new format that was given to them by Maam Robles.
MODULE 1 : Overview in assessment of learning
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We, the future educators will face a resolution at the beginning of our profession all involve how best to educate children. But first, we need to have the instructional objectives which are to determine what you want the students to learn and how you will know that they learned. Instructional objectives are requirements for high-quality development of instruction. In education, such evidences about the success on learning progress of the students are obtained through assessment. Teachers are continually making decisions about the most effective means of interacting with their students. Assessment is a very important factor in education. An educational professional must be able to effectively evaluate and assess the students’ progress and knowledge of the subjects being taught. A teacher must also be able to assess how a student learns and if the methods the teacher is using is effective. As a teacher it is important to be aware of a student's performance in the classroom for many reasons. If a teacher is accurately able to assess a students’ progress the teacher will know if the teaching methods are working, and if and where the students need help.
But for now, we are the students who are preparing for our profession in the future. Learning about the assessment and its types and functions is a big factor and help in our job as a teacher who will be the director of the students’ learning.
Module 2: ESTABLISHING A LEARNING TARGET
We, as a future teacher, it is very important that one should know how to establish a learning target. Module 2 truly helped us a lot in preparing us for our profession. It contains lessons on the subject of its definition and types of learning targets; the role of Instructional Objective is another thing, its characteristics and uses. This module also contains the three student learning outcomes which should to be considered in making Instructional Objectives. These are the Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor.
Learning target is a classroom management tool designed to be projected in front of the class or viewed by students at their learning. It seems to be a compass in the student’s learning and for the teacher’s instructions. It should be provided so that both students and parents understand exactly what a student should understand and be able to do after carrying out each unit in various courses. So, it is important that before teaching takes place, instructional objectives should be formulated and set. Instructional objectives also lead the teacher in discovering the strength and weaknesses of the established learning process, best learning situations, and the level of growth and development of learners through a pre-determined evaluation process. In short, instructional objectives help in monitoring and evaluating the whole educational process in minute details.
In its deeper sense, without instructional objectives, teaching is analogous to a fallen leaf whose destination depends on the will of the wind. There should be a plan on how to satisfy the three domain of learning of a learner. Without instructional objectives, teachers will have nothing to follow in order to achieve what it should be achieved.
MODULE 3: KEYS TO EFFECTIVE TESTING
MODULE 4: DEVELOPMENT OF ASSESSMENT TOOLS
Module 4 contains lessons on Assessment tools. Assessment is the process of gathering and qualifying information about a student’s performance. In the module, we were able to understand the usage of the different types of test namely the Multiple Choice Test, True or False, Matching-type test, Completion and Cloze Test and finally the Essay test. The selection of the assessment tools depends upon what is to be assessed and the purposes or reasons of assessment. In addition, the selection of assessment tools should be coherent to the overall aims and goals of the program or curriculum. The phase of learning both of the teachers and students affects the selection of assessment strategy or tool as one tool may be unsuitable for the purpose.
The Multiple Choice test is a form of assessment in which students are asked to select the best answer out of the choices from the list. In this kind of test, an item consists of two parts: the stem and the set of options. All incorrect or less appropriate responses are called distracters or foils. The stem is the beginning of the item as a problem to be solved, a question asked of a student. The correct answers are called keys.
The True or False test is an alternative choice test in which the examinee indicates whether each of several statements is true or false. It is used to measure ability to identify whether statements of facts, principles, generalizations, relationships or evaluative statements are correct. Teachers choose this type of test to quickly poll a class as an introduction to a discussion or determine knowledge of topic.
The Matching-type test is similar to the multiple choice test. In this kind of test, the examinee associates an item in one column with a choice in the second column.
The Completion test item requires the student to answer a question or finish an incomplete statement by filling in a blank with the correct word or phrase. On the other hand, the Cloze test measures the students comprehension abilities by giving them a short text with blanks where some of the words should be and asking them to fill in the blanks.
Finally, the Essay test is a type of assessment used to comment on student’s progress, the quality of their thinking, the depth of their understanding, and the difficulties they may be having. The purpose of an essay test is to assess students' abilities to construct a logical, cohesive, and persuasive writing piece.
Assessment tools are structures to assess the students’ knowledge and skills. As future teachers, we got to select the appropriate type of test to be used depending on what domains we want to measure.
LESSON 5: CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD TEST
In lesson 5, it talks about the characteristics of a good test. In here, the validity, reliability and objectivity of the test are concerned. And as we go along with the topics, we found out that before we construct a good test, we must follow or consider first the variables of what are the characteristics of a good test. And in here, we found out that the most important concepts or characteristic of a test is the validity. Without this characteristic, you will have a meaningless result and have wasted a great deal of time and effort between teacher and students. Another characteristic is the reliability of the test, in order to be the test reliable, it should yield results that do not vary greatly when given at short intervals, especially if no basically significant change in the individual’s ability has occurred. The third characteristic is the Objectivity of the test in which it represents the two or more competent judges. These characteristics will help the teachers as well as the students to understand the given questions. For us future teacher, we need to consider the reliability of the test, to know how well the items that reflect the same construct yield similar results.
MODULE 6: ANALYZING AND USING OF TEST ITEM DATA
In lesson 6, it talks about how to analyze and use of item analysis. Item analysis is important in teaching because it gives input if the item will be rejected, accepted or retained in a particular question in a given test. We are able to identify the difficulty of the items and the extent to which each item properly discriminates between high-achieving and low-achieving students. And we learned that in analyzing the item, we will be able to select the best available item to be used in the final form of the test and we may be able to identify the areas of weaknesses of the students in a particular item that needs have remediation. And in this lesson, we also identify and know how to get or compute the index of discrimination and index of difficulty, in which we are able to distinguish the item to be rejected, accepted or to be retained in a test. Therefore the function of the item anlysis is to quantify the amount of a specific trait that each student has. Tests cannot serve as a measuring device for all student characteristics that are of concern to teachers, but they serve to quantify many attributes important to student progress through the process of education – especially measurement of achievement.
Module 7: EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS
As future educators we should have knowledge about statistics in the field of education. This module discusses about how statistics is concerned with the teaching and learning in education. Statistics is both a formal science and a practical theory of scientific inquiry, and both aspects are considered in statistics education. At the same time, statistics is concerned with evidence-based reasoning, particularly with the analysis of data. Therefore education in statistics has strong similarities to education in empirical disciplines, in which education is closely tied to "hands-on" experimentation. The issue of quality education has increasingly becoming an area of interest and concern to many nations of the developing world. Education plays a crucial and pivotal role in development at national, regional and international levels. There can be no argument over the fact that quality assessments have frequently been made on the basis of key indicators generated through the analysis of the statistics available. What has frequently not been appreciated, however, is that statistics is one of the essential, key instruments for the promotion of quality in education. This module attempts to highlight some points on how statistics has been, and can be used, to improve quality in education. So the lessons stated does not meant to tell you anything new, but rather to raise awareness on the importance and value of statistics in the development of quality in education.
Module 8: RUBRICS, PORTFOLIO & PERFORMANCE BASED TEST
In this Module, it shows us how education has moved from a traditional teacher- centered process to a learner- centered one. In the same way, in the area of assessment, there has been a shift away from assessing knowledge towards a more competent or performance-based assessment. There is now a wide variety of methods of education and training to choose one.
Portfolio- based learning and Performance Based Assessment are some of the increasingly popular option of educationists. Portfolio is a collection of written accounts of events and activities experienced by an individual, kept in the form of journal. Through portfolio, it offers the opportunity to assess what students what students have learnt. Conversely, Performance Based Assessment is also an effective learning tool. This type of assessment provides teachers with information about how a child understands and applies knowledge. Also, teachers can integrate performance-based assessments into the instructional process to provide additional learning experiences for students. Simple assessment tools like completion or multiple choice tests do not really guarantee that a student has learned beyond recall.
With these tools, it is important to know of course how to use and develop rubrics. As of its definition, rubrics are supposed to support student self-reflection and self-assessment as well as communication between an assessor and those being assessed. In this new sense, a rubric is a set of standards typically linked to learning objectives in order to communicate expectations of quality on a task.
Module 9: Grading and reporting practices
The main purpose of being a mentor/educator is to educate people, and to teach them the skills they will need to be successful in their careers and in everyday life. Grades are used to show how well, or how weak a student is doing in a particular subject. Grades can be helpful since they reflect how a student is doing in the course. Therefore, grading system can be beneficial for college students.
If we want to make just one change that would immediately reduce student failure rates, then the most effective place to start would be challenging prevailing grading practices. The benefits of effective grading practices are not limited to a reduced failure rate—although that benefit alone is sufficient to justify change.
Grading system encourages students to get better grades than the other students in class, so they can be among the top of the graduating class. A final way grading system can be beneficial for students is that it allows teachers, as well as the student, to see the amount of material that is being learned. It also helps the teacher to evaluate if the students have met the desired instructional objective. If professors know a student’s weaknesses, they can help them in that area, so that the student can improve. Grades are needed to see what a student is good and bad in. For those reasons, it is very important that the grading system should be used to understand the student’s knowledge.
Grading system is definitely needed in college. Grading system helps students figure the amount of knowledge they have gained. Grades can also help students making decisions about their career. Students need to be tested and graded in order to determine how much they have learned.
Topical Content (Related Literature)
Websites:
http://ed.fnal.gov/lincon/el_assessment.shtml
http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/projects/past-projects/bone/
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/assessment/default.htm
http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/05/index.html
http://www4.wccnet.edu/departments/curriculum/assessment.php?levelone=steps
Research studies:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/12/9/abstract
http://www.bmj.com/content/324/7330/156.full
http://web.mit.edu/tll/research/studies/mit-studies.html
http://www.edutopia.org/assessment-research
http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/resources/acl/iid.html
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Videos:
Assessment "of, as, for" learning.mov
Evaluating Your Institution's
Assessment of Student Learning
Demo-videos:
Using Assessment to Improve Instruction
Assessment for Learning:
Innovative Ways to Check for Understanding
The members of the Mind-blenders blog appreciate this activity, publishing the compendium of insights and learning we had in this course, ED103 Assessment of Student Learning.
It is therefore concluded that online web blogging is essential in education. It is highly appreciated by each members of the group, knowing the fact that blogging connects people, sharing their ideas and concepts for their individual learning. It encourages the students to actively engaged themselves to have an effective learning and easy access to information. As a future educators, we will surely share our learnings to them and use this activity to our students, for them to appreciate education and that they'll find it interesting and enjoyable.
MERIBEL TABLO
· What was your reaction to the online blog activity?
Upon hearing this kind of schoolwork, which is online blog activity, I thought it was a very tiresome and mind-boggling requirement to us students. But when our professor motivated us to be determined in every activity that she gave us because it could an asset in our profession soon, I am encouraged and I found it so fun! Its like a feeling that you’ve entered a new inventive world that is composed of blended ideas of students’ learning because your posts will be viewed internationally.
· Are you having some difficulties in configuring the use of web blogging? Explain.
Yah! I’ve got a lot of complexity in doing this blog. Technical editor is my position in our Mind-Blenders’ group. There comes a time that some reflections of my groupmates was not yet submitted to me and that is the time I need to pass our blog URL to our professor. It almost make my head and temper burst out! But, I chose to be patient and trust God for He will help me in the completion of this blog. J and because I have a background on this blogging activity since high school, it seemed so easy for me to make it.
· Did the activity gave you deeper or broader understanding about the use of blog? Why?
Definitely! Before, I thought it was just another typical requirement that would be another burden as a student. But now, E-portfolio is indeed creative collections of our learning in our subject (ED103) for it serves as a mirror of our performance as we go on this subject. We exhibit our records, activities and knowledge that shows how we’ve been through throughout the whole unit.
· Did the activity increase your enthusiasm, willingness or effort to learn more about technology? Why?
Absolutely! Because through this activity, I realized that technology plays a vital role in education today to become more efficient. It has a lot of proficient features that could be a strategy on teaching or could be an activity on learning progress. Now, I want to expose myself more in technology for it helps me in preparing my profession soon as a teacher. I want now to become more inclined in the modern technology that could help me to become a globally competitive teacher like our professor.J
I learned that technology has a vast effect in our education today in order for it to become more effective and proficient. As an educator, I learned that I could not only have this kind of learning in these 4-corners in classroom but I could eventually expose my future students internationally through this web log.
· What generalization can you formulate with this activity?
Of all the things that I’ve done in this course, through this e-portfolio I can state that the rapid evolution of educational technologies also makes it increasingly challenging to determine what works best. At the same time, the pace of change in education creates significant challenges for schools and we could probably count on to technology.
DIVINA B. MORADAS
· What was your reaction to the online blog activity?
“Woowh! Blog again?”
This was truly my first reaction when I heard Ma’am Robles requiring us to make this online blog activity. For this semester, this is our second blog activity that’s why I’ve reacted that much-- the other one is an individual task of ours in The Reading Process (Eng75). However, as times go by, it wasn’t a tiring stuff at all since it is a collaborative effort of a group.
Actually, this was not my first time to encounter this online blog activity because since in our high school years, we were already exposed to this kind of activity in General Santos City High School. For this reason, I really haven’t found some difficulty configuring the web blogging though I know and we know that we still do have so many things to be on familiar terms with to improve our blog for the betterment of our activity.
· Did the activity give you a deeper understanding about the use of blogs? Why?
This activity hadn’t just given me a deeper understanding about the use of the blogs but also letting me to realize the advantages that it would bring to an individual who has a background and adept in making blogs. Being proficient in this area is already such a big edge to use in our chosen profession as we apply for jobs in the near future. Being a technologically advanced teacher implies for more efficient and effective teachings to his/her students.
· Did the activity increases/ decreases your enthusiasm, willingness or effort to learn more about technology? Why?
Through this online blogging activity, it increased more of my enthusiasm to learn more about technology as we live in an age of lightning- fast information transfer and technological innovation. As I’ve found blogging as an enjoyable way of learning, this activity triggered my thought that I should be more equipped in blogging as well as to the technology we are in today so I can satisfy my future students to their needs and thirst of learning.
Among the important things that I have learned from this activity is that technology can be a vital role in helping the student’s learning. With the aid of technology in education, more learning will be inculcated into the student’s mind. More so, the essence of the collaboration of the group made this activity of ours an effective and meaningful one.
· What generalization can you formulate with this activity?
Technology enables to create a knowledge network for learners. The use of technology contributes a lot to the timely transmission of the information and knowledge through helping education meet its challenges.
Annieve E. Carmona
· What was your reaction to all blog activity?
Well, as for me and as a future educator, this blog activity is a great help in enhancing my capability in learning styles. Although it is quite tricky but it is an interesting and a comprehensive activity in which we, in our group, work it collaboratively. Aside from the learning that you have, you can also engage yourself using the advance technology that as future educator we should not be left behind to the advancement of our generation.
· Are you having some differences configuring the use of web blogging?
No, because since we’re in highschool, we are already engage in this kind of activity which is web blogging but not that thorough.
· Did the activity give you a deeper understanding about the use of blog?
Actually, Yes because I thought at the first place, that the use of blog is just for a personal data only but when I encounter this activity it enlighten my mind that blogs can also be a venue or channel to experience and share what you have learned in your lesson.
Yes, it increases my enthusiasm and willingness because as of now, Im thinking of an activity that can help the students to be guided their learnings by the use of technology. And since, we are in advancing world, we must practice and learned how to use this technology in order for us not to be left behind.
· What important thing you have learned from this activity?
Technology, nowadays, is a great help in terms of educational activity especially in molding and shaping the student learning and attitudes towards his academic affair.
· What generalization can you formulate with this activity?
“Learning is everywhere”. That learning does not only exist in the four corners of the school but also can be learned outside with the help of the technology.
Michelle Camacho
· What was your reaction to the online blog activity?
The web blogging activity for me is a great way of expanding my knowledge in the use of technology to enhance learning. This innovation brings education to the next level. I’m in bliss to do this activity which would help not only me but other students to have a direct access to information making them more knowledgeable. And as a future teacher, this online web blogging would be essential to my students, sharing to them what I've learned.
· Are you having some difficulty configuring the use of web blogging?
I don't have any difficulty in configuring the use of web blogging because when I was in my high school years, we were already exposed in making such, and I had the fundamental knowledge on it. Other than this online blogging in ED103, I have other blogs as well.
· Did the activity gave you deeper or broader understanding about the use of blogs? Why?
Definitely, YES! this activity gave me a broader and deeper perspective in the edifices brought by blogs through the experiential learning while dealing with this activity. I personally understood the use of blogs. It makes learning independent of time and place, it makes education demand-oriented and participant-centered, blog encourages the learners to be active throughout the course period and blog captures changes in thinking.
· Did the activity increase or decrease your enthusiasm, willingness or effort to learn more about technology? Why?
No question about it. Absolutely YES! It increased my enthusiasm, willingness and effort to learn more about technology. I can't help but be excited to learn more of this innovation and to see more of the positive impact soon. I believe this massive impact will be witnessed by the generations of tomorrow.
· What important things have you learned from his activity?
I have learned that computer era particularly technology, brought numbers of advantages in our society especially to education. As for my case, the use of blogs helped me recognize its benefits on the easy accessibility to informations and also with its capacity to connect people. It does broaden the horizon of everybody's learning.
· What generalization do you formulate with this activity?
It is therefore concluded that the use of technologyhelps enhance learning making it more effective, enjoyable and exciting and exciting in a sense that it does motivate its users to learn more, explore and get out of their comfort zones. As a future educator, this online blogging activity and the like will soon be use as one of my teaching strategies.
World:
- Which US state has the largest number of colleges and universities?
Answer: NEW YORK, 326
- · Recognized as the first book of poetry in the English language, which English author published his Canterbury Tales around 1400?
Answer: GEOFFREY CHAUCER
- · Most people think these large objects originated in Holland, but actually they began in Persia around 650 A.D. What are they?
Answer: WINDMILLS
- · What is the only state whose name is a single syllable?
Answer: Maine
Math:
· If 40% are of the people at an event are women and 20% of the people at the event are left-handed, then at most what percentage are right-handed men?
Answer: 60% = because if all lefties are women, then 60 right handed men out of 100 people
· If you draw one card from a normal deck of cards, what is the probability that it will be a Jack, Queen, King, heart or diamond?
Answer: 32/52 = 8/13 = .615 = 61.5%
Science:
· By what simpler name is deoxyribonucleic acid known?
Answer: DNA
· The Adam's Apple (more prominent in males) is formed by a slightly triangular-shaped protuberance located in what part of the body?
Answer: Larynx
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