Module 3 Assessing Collaborative Efforts

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Module 3 Assessing Collaborative Efforts

Assessment while students are collaborating can be achieved in many ways.  Dr.  Siemens discusses a few  ways to assess student while collaborating in an online classroom.  One suggestion is to have the peers assess each other rather than the instructor assesses the students.  In my experience with peer assessment at the elementary level, the students are very critical of the others.  I think if students are assessing each other in elementary school, they would have to have strict guidelines and be taught how to assess others.  Another way Dr. Siemens suggests to assess others is for students to receive feedback from online communities.  I teach at the elementary level and feel the one that would have to assess a student would be one that is trained at this level.  Untrained people assessing the students could hurt the education and expression of students at this level.  The last one he discussed was that Educators assess the students based on the student’s contributions.  I feel this I the best way to assess the students because students can see clearly what they did and did not do and with feedback from the instructor, they can see what they will need to do the next time they are in a collaboration group.  . 

There are students that will request to work alone rather than in collaboration groups.  Many students in classes have asked to work alone.  These students seem to be ones that are leaders in the class.  They want the work done their way or have experienced groups that they have completed all the work due to lack of participation from others in the group.  When this happens in class, I will usually have the student participate in a collaboration group but will try to match them up with others that have the same work ethic as the child requesting to work alone.   This seems to work most of the time.  Sometimes I will have as many jobs in a classroom as there are students so that each student can be an expert at one part of the project and then the work will come together as one big project.  Students need to learn how to work with others due to the fact that this is how the real-world is working in their jobs.   Instructors have to recognize that students have needs while working with others and need to be sensitive to the students needs. 

References

Laureate Education, Inc. (2008). "Assessment of collaborative learning". Principles of Distance Education [DVD]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Siemens, George. (2009).  Assessment of Collaborative Learning.

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Module 3 Updated Story Board

Sychronized Interactions in the Virtual Classsroom
Introduction	powerpoint slide with title
narration	video me speaking
Using technology in the classroom
introduction ot Dr. Trombetta	picture of Dr. Trombetta
key speaker	Video clip Dr Trombetta speaking
narration	video me speaking
whole group instruction
introduction of students in sychronized class	video of students working in class
narration scaffold learning	video me speaking
introduction of students in large group	video of students in large group in class
introduction of students in breakout rooms	video of students in small groups collaborating
conclusion	powerpoint closure
references	scrolling references

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