Evaluate Reflection

This blog post is to reflect upon what was learned in the Evaluate Module and the following standards:
Standard D: The online teacher promotes student success through clear expectations, prompt responses, and regular feedback.
Standard G: The online teacher demonstrates competencies in creating and implementing assessments in online learning environments in ways that ensure validity and reliability of the instruments and procedures.
Standard H: The online teacher develops and delivers assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assesses learning progress by measuring student achievement of the learning goals.
Standard I: The online teacher demonstrates competency in using data from assessments and other data sources to modify content and to guide student learning.

Standard D was best met in the Quality Feedback post. This post focused on giving quality feedback that focused on encouraging student growth and mastery of standards.  The positive and corrective feedback to students will lead to greater learning and student achievement. 

Standard G and H were best addressed in Summative Assessment and Personalized Teaching and Learning. This post helped to ensure that the instructor is creating assessments that are reliable and valid.  By focusing on the on assessments that met standards, the instructor is able to create assessments that will lend data to the direction of the lesson.  I also found value in the lesson that focused on the security of test.

Standard I was also met in Personalized Teaching and Learning.  I really felt this lesson prepared me to better use data for assessments.  By focusing more using the data from formative and summative assessments, the teacher is able to use differentiation and remediation to assist the student in achieving mastery of the standard.

What strategies will you take away from the Evaluate module and apply to your teaching?  
This module had several lessons that had excellent points.  I think the best strategy I will take away is to continue using data to support assessments.  By planning assessments that align with standards and having assessment tools in place, such as rubrics, the student understand the objectives and the subjectivity of grading will disappear.  
What lessons were most beneficial for you?
The lesson I felt most beneficial was the lesson on Quality Feedback.  Too often teachers are overwhelmed with the amount of grading that has to be done, or the depth of the material that needs to be graded that we don't put enough value in feedback.  I will spend more time in the future focusing on feedback.