Erica White

July 15, 2015

EDU-225
Technology to Support Assessment of the Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan
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Section Five: Technology to Support Assessment

Technology is an everyday aspect of our lives. The two types of assessment are formative
assessment and summative assessment. With the formative assessment it is used during the
process of the learning a specific concept. The summative assessment is used at the conclusion
of teaching a skill. These two test are helpful to teachers because it shows and tells the teachers
where there student are academically. It also tells the teachers if the students understand what is
being taught to them. The pros and cons of using technology to assess learning is with the pros
the students will pay attention more, also with using the computer there is no paper involved
when exploring the internet or using programs. New technologies influence ways of interacting
with and presenting oneself to others, and the practices through which work is accomplished
(Orlikowski 2000; Zuboff 1988). (Vaast, E. 2013). With technology today it is easier for the
students to use devices for testing because everything is saved on a drive. Even though having it
on paper is also a good option. With having the test in the computer it is easier for the teachers to
grade because they can understand it better. Rather than if it was on paper with sloppy hand
writing and a lot of ease marks.
The cons is that the computer system could fail or the internet may not work to teach a
lesson and all of the data can be lost or even eased. Rural districts have unique challenges
relative to their adoption of technology in classrooms; budgets and funding play a central role.
(Sundeen, T. 2013). Even though approximately 20% of the children in the United States are
educated in rural school districts (Strange, Johnson, Showalter, & Klein, 2012), diseconomies of
scale exist resulting from higher rural district fixed costs based on lower student enrollment.
(Sundeen, T. 2013). Technology can help students with access learning, with all the different
devices that they have created today to help with teaching. Therefore, the children learn better

because they are into the cool devices that we have today. The importance of assessment
technology in connection with the ISTE standards is to have the children know the internet first
and reteaching them about it. The publication describes what students should know about and
do with technology in six areas of basic operations and concepts; social, ethical and human
issues; technology productivity tools; technology communication tools; technology research
tools; and technology problem-solving and decision-making tools. (Dyrli, O.E. 1998). Having
the children learn the importance about the internet is a great thing to have. With the technology
taking over today everyone needs to know the importance of the internet and technology and
know some of the basic things about them.

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