Online+Self-Assessment+&+Research

= ONLINE INTERACTIVE RESEARCH & SELF ASSESSMENT: =

*PLEASE TRY TO CREATE ONE SELF ASSESSMENT FOR YOUR STUDENTS AND POST FOR SHARING
[|What is Self-Assessment?] || [|Types of Assessments] [|One-Stop Sites] || [|Personality and Type Indicators] [|Interest Inventories] || [|Skill Surveys] [|Values Inventories] || [|Other Tools & Resources to Try]

= http://informationcoping.wikispaces.com/Self-Assessment =

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 * ==Students Creating Quizzes and Survey: ==

1[|.http://quizstar.4teachers.org/]

2. [|Online Survey Tutorials]

[|Tutorial Categories]

 * [|The Basics]
 * [|Video Training]
 * [|Look & Feel, Design]
 * [|Advanced Features]
 * [|Website Integration (Embedding)]
 * [|Third Party Integration]
 * [|API Docs & Integration]
 * [|Utilities]
 * [|Non-survey Uses]
 * [|Reports]

[|**Tutorial:** Sixteen Best Practice Tips for Building Surveys]
SurveyGizmo gives you the tools you need to create surveys, landing pages, quizzes and polls, but even great tools can’t do it all on their own. Following these tips will help ensure your surveys are as effective as possible.


 * ==Students Creating Rubrics: ==

Many experts believe that rubrics improve students' end products and therefore increase learning. When teachers evaluate papers or projects, they know implicitly what makes a good final product and why. When students receive rubrics beforehand, they understand how they will be evaluated and can prepare accordingly. Developing a grid and making it available as a tool for students' use will provide the scaffolding necessary to improve the quality of their work and increase their knowledge.
 * 1) **[|Advantages of Rubrics]**

2. ** RubiStar** Want to make exemplary rubrics in a short amount of time? Try RubiStar out! Registered users can save and edit rubrics online. You can access them from home, school, or on the road. Registration and use of this tool is free, so click the Register link in the login area to the right to get started now.

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**[|3 Common Features]** Rubrics can be created in a variety of forms and levels of complexity, however, they all contain three common **features** which:
 * focus on measuring a stated **objective** (performance, behavior, or quality).
 * use a **range** to rate performance.
 * contain specific performance characteristics arranged in levels indicating the **degree** to which a standard has been met (Pickett and Dodge).

**[|Advantages of Rubrics]** Many experts believe that rubrics improve students' end products and therefore increase learning. When teachers evaluate papers or projects, they know implicitly what makes a good final product and why. When students receive rubrics beforehand, they understand how they will be evaluated and can prepare accordingly. Developing a grid and making it available as a tool for students' use will provide the scaffolding necessary to improve the quality of their work and increase their knowledge. Rubrics offer several **advantages.**
 * Rubrics improve student performance by clearly showing the student how their work will be evaluated and what is expected.
 * Rubrics help students become better judges of the quality of their own work.
 * Rubrics allow assessment to be more objective and consistent.
 * Rubrics force the teacher to clarify his/her criteria in specific terms.
 * Rubrics reduce the amount of time teachers spend evaluating student work.
 * Rubrics promote student awareness about the criteria to use in assessing peer performance.
 * Rubrics pro vide useful feedback to the teacher regarding the effectiveness of the instruction.
 * Rubrics provide students with more informative feedback about their strengths and areas in need of improvement.
 * Rubrics accommodate heterogeneous classes by offering a range of quality levels.
 * Rubrics are easy to use and easy to explain.


 * == Research & Review with Online Notes: Help pace the students research and ensure that they read and remain organized with notetaking. Allow students to reflect on their own process for re-evaluation online ==


 * [|**NoteStar**] is an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar's many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page. ||
 * [|ThinkTank] is designed to help students develop a Research Organizer (a list of topics and subtopics) for reports and projects. Based on the subject assigned, the students can refine it by choosing from a variety of suggestions and by using a random subtopic generator. This helps students learn how to refine a subject so that it is more manageable for Internet research. ||
 * ==Student Videos for Self Assessment: Allows teacher to monitor the organization and progress of the students with immediate feedback after evaluation. ==

[|Kids' Vid] is an instructional web site that gives teachers and students the tools necessary to implement video production in the classroom. Video production can be intimidating to the novice. //Not to worry//. It is nothing more than a method for recording research and expressing creative ideas. Video production, if properly implemented, is more than a new toy for students. It provides the tools and the means for students to create and display serious work in a new, exciting and engaging way that is appropriate for all age groups and abilities. This is a place for serious fun.


 * ==**Here is a website called [|YACKPACK]: A simple way to here from the children informally to give feedback about a lesson. Performance Task for activities like: **==

http://www.yackpack.com/education.html#how

 * ===READERS THEATER; CHORAL READING; FLUENCY.===
 * ===THEY MAY EVEN READ THROUGH THE ARTICLES ALOUD ON THAT THEY SOCIAL BOOKMARK OR===
 * ===REFERENCE THE SOCIAL BOOKMARK IN AN ONLINE DEBATE USING YACKPACK.===

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