Objectives+and+Assessment

=**Objectives and Assessment**= Develop objectives and authentic assessments for determining what you want learners (adults or students) to be able to know and do after the project and how you will determine they have indeed mastered the objectives your project laid out.

We might have phase I and phase II objectives. In phase I I think we could create the portal but teachers would not yet have access, or perhaps we could have a beta test with limited access. So phase I objectives would center around creation of the portal. Phase II objectives would involve teacher use and teacher perceptions about the site. It might be good to restrict phase II to teachers. We could then add a phase III in which the portal is open to students and/or parents. This way we could get the bugs out before making the portal transparent to the full Gilmour Community.

Have you seen Dolores Gende's Honors Physics Wiki ([] )? I hadn't realized that Wikis were so powerful. We might consider a wiki backbone with a link to another site for interaction (though I am not yet a big fan of Ning). Once we agree on the goals (previous page), we can easily turn them into objectives for phase I. For instance, provide a portal that will allow asynchronous teacher interaction; provide a portal that will be searchable; provide a portal to house student work, etc.

on use of 21st century technology; Create a survey for faculty or class || ex: LS math/science using to search for problem based learning lessons and archive them by topic ||  || Teachers are able to save, share, and open files using delicious.com || Data from Assessments
 * Tool/Objective || Teacher || Students || Assessments ||
 * Google docs || Establish gmail account; Learn to complete surveys by using a Google tutorial as needed ||  || Complete a survey
 * Google docs || Establish gmail account; Learn to complete surveys by using a Google tutorial as needed ||  || Complete a survey
 * Wiki spaces || Sign up as member of Gilmour wiki; Find resources for 21st learning tools;Learn to edit and navigate pages ||  || Add project that is using a web 2.0 tool ||
 * || Phase II: Teachers will recognize the availalbility of a site for suggestions/help in identifying and using technology to increase student learning. ||  ||   ||
 * || Phase II: Teachers will use the site to showcase student work ||  ||   ||
 * Delicious.com || Use as a resource within departments to share websites of interest

Baseline Data from 2008: Statistics on Faculty Use of Tech Tools, Spring 2008