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A Final Revision of My Formative Assessment Design
This blog post contains final revisions for my Formative Assessment Design (F.A.D.). The revisions are based on feedback and new learning...

James Kerr
Dec 6, 20196 min read
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My Assessment Beliefs: Review and Changes: What I Have Learned
This post for the CEP 813 course will be synthesizing what I have learned about assessment over the past semester through a process of...

James Kerr
Dec 6, 201913 min read
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Peer Reflection: Assessment and Video Game Sample
For this assignment, the goal was to play a video game that was specifically designed as an assessment. The first goal for this...

James Kerr
Nov 24, 20195 min read
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Twinery.org: A Beginner's Site for Creating Educational Video Games
In the game " Pharaoh's Physics," the procedural rhetoric is all about movement. The students in my Physics classes share some common...

James Kerr
Nov 17, 20194 min read
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Pharaoh's Physics
(An Online Assessment supporting student understanding of Force and Motion) Starting an online game from scratch is a big task,...

James Kerr
Nov 9, 20194 min read
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Google Classroom Assessment: Using a Quiz for Feedback
How can an online feature provided by Google Classroom bolster assessment? In my first adventure using the Google Quiz feature in Google...

James Kerr
Nov 4, 20193 min read
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Why Try Google Classroom?
A great variety of Classroom Management Systems (CMS) are available for teachers who want to efficiently serve students. To increase...

James Kerr
Oct 26, 20197 min read
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Final Revisions: Assessment Design Checklist 3.0
The Assessment Design Checklist (ADC) in its final version includes five questions that were designed for universal use in the...

James Kerr
Oct 20, 20192 min read
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Revised Formative Assessment for CEP813
All teachers share the opportunity to try out a new assessment. As Teachers reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of a new assessment,...

James Kerr
Oct 6, 20194 min read
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An Updated Look at a Formative Assessment Checklist
Teachers can create more effective assessments by thinking carefully about design. A checklist may be a useful tool that can be used to...

James Kerr
Sep 30, 20191 min read
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Gizmos by Explorelearning: Online Lab Assessments
Genre: Explorelearning has developed a set of online gems for teachers who have limited lab equipment and lab space. The online lab genre...

James Kerr
Sep 20, 20195 min read
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A Checklist for Designing Formative Assessments
Designing successful formative assessments requires thinking backwards. Backwards design is an essential strategy in "Understanding by...

James Kerr
Sep 15, 20191 min read
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Formative Assessment: Online Discussion, Issues in Nuclear Radiation Use
I believe that this formative assessment could be a valuable tool to encourage students to provide feedback to peers. I am interested in...

James Kerr
Sep 5, 20192 min read
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Assessment: A Sample
This assessment sample fits into a research/ presentation format. As students are assigned a specific portion of the entire group...

James Kerr
Sep 1, 20192 min read
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Assessment: A Trio of Thoughts
I believe that assessment must be tied to standards. Students must be fully informed concerning learning goals. Eventually students must...

James Kerr
Aug 30, 20192 min read
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A Reflection on “What Schools Can Learn From Google. IDEO and PIXAR”
Setting all else aside, a visit to this site was a great choice if only the embedded video “High Tech High” were to be the prize for the...

James Kerr
Aug 23, 20192 min read
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Responding to T.L. Friedman: It's P.Q. and C.Q. As Much As I.Q.
After reading the editorial " It's P.Q. and C.Q. as much as I.Q. (Thomas Friedman, 2013), I wish to shout out an "Amen!" Why should...

James Kerr
Aug 22, 20192 min read
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Mentoring
Mentoring: First Steps This modeling exercise facilitated practice as a technology mentor. A Y1 teacher prepared a lesson that featured...

James Kerr
Aug 18, 20192 min read
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My Learning Self Reflection
In The Beginning After 25 years in the classroom, it is an interesting personal challenge to consider which learning theories have...

James Kerr
Jul 25, 20197 min read
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For Believers And Dreamers, Final Project MAET Summer 2018
For the final project for our MAET summer experience, I was asked to create a product that displays my PQ (passion quotient) and also our...

James Kerr
Aug 16, 20181 min read
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