From the course: Teaching with Technology
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Assessing written work
- In the two chapters on assessment, we cover using technology for lab work, for quizzes, for student presentations and more. But what about assessing written work? We can build a car that can drive itself, so isn't there a robot (laughs) that grades essays yet? I wish. (laughs) I teach an online class with up to 300 students, and there are a number of writing assignments. An essay-grading robot would be brilliant. Until that day comes, though, let's look at technology we can use to assess written work. I'll cover peer-review tools and iterative writing with e-portfolios in different parts of this chapter. So let's focus here specifically on tools for teachers evaluating individual written assignments. In our bag of tricks, we have rubrics, annotation tools and plagiarism-prevention tools. We'll start with rubrics. If you don't use rubrics for writing assignments, you might wanna consider it. As a matrix of levels of quality for different grading criteria, they outline expectations…
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Administering digital quizzes, tests, and exams4m
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Assessing written work4m 7s
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Assessing team projects3m 31s
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Assessing student presentations3m 46s
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Facilitating student self-assessments3m 21s
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Facilitating peer-review activities3m 26s
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Using eportfolios for authentic assessment and measuring growth3m 45s
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Assessing teaching effectiveness3m 49s
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