I find Google Forms to be a very easy to use and effective way to get feedback from both students and staff. I use Google forms regularly to collect information. This is sometimes just in the form of a survey and occassionally in the form of a quiz.
I have also found that Google Forms can be a great way for students to create quizzes for each other. I sometimes assign projects in which students must teach a lesson and also give a quiz to the other students when it is over. Google Forms work great for this task. Also, I love how the data goes into a nice useable format and is easily exported to Excel. It is great for quickly getting good data which can then be analyzed.
2. Below is a screenshot of a rubric which I will be using to assess a project in which students had to create a website using Google Sites.
I often use rubrics for grading student projects and I find Rubistar to be one of the better sites out there for creating rubrics. I like using rubrics because they allow me to give students freedom for being creative as long as they stay within the general requirements of the project. In this project students were planning a vacation and using Google Sites to build a website that would layout the trip. The project served several purposes. To teach students about Google Sites, to apply searching techniques, to learn more about copyright, and to learn some basic terminology and design aspects for building websites.
This rubric will help to evaluate the students final product. Most importantly, it will help to give students feedback on what they have created when the project is finished.
3. In our district we have a couple different data tools. West Catholic, Catholic Central, as well as a few of our "feeder" grade schools use the Infinite Campus student management system. This product stores all our student grades, demographic information, standardized test information, as well as an other custom fields that we track. Most of our staff members use Blackboard as a course management system and also Google Docs. Our office also tracks standardized test scores such as the ACT, PLAN, etc.
Teachers in our building have the ability to use Infinite Campus to run numerous reports on student assignments within their classes. They can produce both exportable data as well as visual analysis of student data. One thing that is quite nice about Infinite Campus is that it permanently stores all student information and can view past gradebooks from even past years. Therefore, teachers even have the ability to compare student results between separate years, giving a more longitudinal analysis of student achievement.
Teachers can also use products like Blackboard to track student usage of the product. I find that learning students study patterns can be interesting and also somewhat useful for planning assignments. Additionally, some of these products allow you to drill down and see individual questions which students are struggling with. Sometimes analysis of this data can help direct teachers to areas that they need to cover better or potentially even to test questions that are not constructed well. The key is to review your student data and learn from it.
FERPA and HIPPA are important in all schools. When dealing with student data you are potentially dealing with confidential information whether that is regarding academic achievement or health records. Therefore, it is important that student records and personal information are handled properly. I will admit that I learned a great deal about FERPA laws by reading this article.
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