As an elementary school student of the early 1990s, I grew up accustomed to worksheets as a form of instruction and assessment. Years ago, when I began my first year of teaching, I fell into this trend, too. For grammar and mechanics skills in particular, I relied on...
Today we are going to take a look at some current trends in instructional design that have been accelerating in recent years. As a starting point, the ability of learners to access information when it is needed, using browser-based resources, is driving many of the...
The use of technology-enhanced items (TEIs) in assessment has gained immense popularity in recent years due to the numerous advantages these item types offer. Through the use of these interactive questions, student engagement is increased substantially, especially in...
Managing a content development project involves many steps and depends on a reliable team to support the project goal. Often, a new project starts out as a fabulous idea, birthed by people passionate about the end result. Once the idea has been formed, however,...
Adaptive Assessment in Practice Let’s look at two types of adaptive testing. The first type, item adaptive, adjusts each future item based on an average estimated ability, called the ability estimate. This type of adaptive testing has many possible uses. For...
Today, according to a school district’s curriculum, you have two standards to teach. The first is a content standard: “Find the roots, real and imaginary, of a quadratic equation.” The second is one of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical...
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