Leveraging Digital Tools to Assess Student Learning

Abstract

"Leveraging Digital Tools to Assess Student Learning provides a practical approach to using technology to collect, interpret, and curate assessment data in K-12 in-person, online, hybrid, and dual learning environments. Digital media, emerging learning technologies, and handheld devices play larger roles than ever in students' 21st-century educational experiences. Digital tools, meanwhile, can also transform assessment practices for teachers, allowing more efficient means of identifying gaps and modifying instruction to maximize student learning. Situating assessment practices in today's networked, flexible, and virtual classrooms, this book reframes polling and quizzing, social media and memes, and multimedia platforms as digital learning tools for engaging, interactive, and meaningful formative, summative, open-ended, peer and self-paced assessments. The final chapter discusses technology's role in organizing, evaluating, and disseminating assessment data to students, their families, and administrators"-- 21 century assessment practices: A paradigm shift -- Questioning, online polling and virtual quizzing -- Assessing learning through social media, memes, and emojis -- Multimedia platforms for open-ended, peer, and self assessment -- Online tools to curate, evaluate, and disseminate assessment data.