James Kerr
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...
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James Kerr
- Dec 6, 2019
- 13 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Nov 24, 2019
- 5 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Nov 17, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Nov 9, 2019
- 4 min
Pharaoh's Physics
(An Online Assessment supporting student understanding of Force and Motion) Starting an online game from scratch is a big task,...
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James Kerr
- Nov 4, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Oct 26, 2019
- 7 min
Why Try Google Classroom?
A great variety of Classroom Management Systems (CMS) are available for teachers who want to efficiently serve students. To increase...
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James Kerr
- Oct 20, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Oct 6, 2019
- 4 min
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,...
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James Kerr
- Sep 30, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Sep 20, 2019
- 5 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Sep 15, 2019
- 1 min
A Checklist for Designing Formative Assessments
Designing successful formative assessments requires thinking backwards. Backwards design is an essential strategy in "Understanding by...
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James Kerr
- Sep 5, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Sep 1, 2019
- 2 min
Assessment: A Sample
This assessment sample fits into a research/ presentation format. As students are assigned a specific portion of the entire group...
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James Kerr
- Aug 30, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Aug 23, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Aug 22, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Aug 18, 2019
- 2 min
Mentoring
Mentoring: First Steps This modeling exercise facilitated practice as a technology mentor. A Y1 teacher prepared a lesson that featured...
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James Kerr
- Jul 25, 2019
- 7 min
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...
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James Kerr
- Aug 16, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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