Title: Assesment Software Tool: True or False
Type of the resource: Software
Funded by: SE.S Cyprus
Authors: Pantelis Makris
Type of disability: ALL TYPES
Target education level: Primary education
Vocational Education and Training
Language(s): English
Greek
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OER:
Overall objectives of the inclusive learning resource
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (What are the overall broader objectives to which the action will contribute?)
An open ended tool where the teacher can create her learning material and assess her class. She has the option to register all her student in the class, create customized content for each student, and view the reports of her student.
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (What are the key indicators related to the overall objectives?)
Child is motivated to use the resource and show progress on his academic abilities.
Sources and means of verification: (What are the sources of information for these indicators?)
You can use this tool for:
-Pre-assessment to record status of the student at the beginning of the class
-Daily assessment at the end of the class or weekly assessment
-Post-training assessment to measure the resulted status
Risks and Challenges:
Specific purpose of the inclusive learning resource
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (What specific objective is the resource intended to achieve to contribute to the overall objectives?)
An alternative and more inclusive way to support revision or assessment of all learners. Teachers can use it either in the end of a class in any subject to revise or assess the learning material of the day and you can create True/False activities. You can use it for maths, language, history lesson , geography, etc. Also, students can use it at home to prepare themselves before a test, by having from the teacher different activities to run.
Note: If you want to have more option for activities type. You can also use the Multiple Choice Assessment Tool that have the same logic but it gives you the option to do Multiple Choice type of Activities
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (Which indicators clearly show that the objective of the actions/resource has been achieved?)
Children stay engaged and use the tool for long enough periods of time.
Children demonstrate improvement on their skills
Sources and means of verification: (What are the sources of information that exist or can be collected? What are the methods required to get this information?)
Get immediate feedback by children on their engagement. Use the view student report option each time to see the student progress
Risks and Challenges: (Which factors and conditions outside the user's responsibility are necessary to achieve that objective? (external conditions)) Which risks should be taken into consideration?
Option to use at school or at home.
Need to have PC and if the child need a special mouse to have it also at home in order to use the resource.
If using at home, there are numerous barriers/risks such as the training might lead the parent and the children into conflict and this might discourage the children and disengage it.
The use of the resource at school requires to have teachers trained on how to facilitate its use.
Expected results on implementation of the resource
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (The results are the outputs envisaged to upscale. What are the expected results?)
Children are running the activity and the tool record their performance. In case they haven't achieved their goal,teacher can support with what is seems necessary and they can run again the activity.
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (What are the indicators to measure whether and to what extent the action/resource achieves the expected results?)
The child is ready when after the session was able to complete each activity without errors and feels confident about himself.
Sources and means of verification: (What are the available sources of information for these indicators?)
- Pre-assessment of aforementioned skills and competencies, post-assessment immediately after the end of the training
- Use the software to compare the results from the first week with results from the last week of training.
-After the end of training, gather information from the children on how he/she experienced the training.
-Also gather information from other teachers and parents, whether the child feel more confident about his academic abilities
Risks and Challenges: (What external conditions must be met to obtain the expected results on schedule?)
-Make sure that you have installed the resource on a PC
-The resource is good to be a part of the children routine in order to support revision of the class material. It' is easy way to evaluate also your student with special needs as it is easy way to show performance. Also, you have the option to create adaptive material for those student.
-You can also establish a reasonable reward system that will be agreed with the children before even the train begins. Emphasize from the beginning that the reward will be given after 5 days of training and if the children stays focused on the plan.
Activities
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (What are the key activities to be carried out and in what sequence in order to reach the expected results?)
When you open the tool you can see that you have two options the student option or the teacher option. We first click on the option for teacher in order to register our students and create the learning materials
1. Click on the first icon for student registration. Here we can register our student details and disability, if they have any.
2. At the content creation form we will create the activities. We have the option to add a statement, a sound and a picture for each activity and categorize our activities.
3. We have also the option to export the activity we have create in order to put it on another computer.
4. If we want the student to have specific activities in print form we have the option to print those activities.
5. When we have finish with the content creation we can run the activities with our student. We just need to go to the student option. We select the exercise and the student who need to do the exercise.
6. We can do some customization on the screen such as we can change screen colors, we can enable or disable the sound and the picture, also change the text fonts and select to have or not a text. This give us many options to work with different student's and with various ways.
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (What are the means required to implement these activities, e.g. personnel, equipment, training, studies, supplies, operational facilities, etc.)
Option to buy and install a desktop/native version
A device: PC Windows XP/Vista/7/ 8/10
A teacher/facilitator if the resource is used in a formal or non formal education setting.
Sources and means of verification: (What are the sources of information about action progress?)
The teacher can customize his training according to the child needs, can change the setting of each activity by changing the screen colors, enable or disable the sound and the picture, also change the text fonts and select to have or not a text. This give us lot's of option to work with different student's and with varies ways.
The resource provides functionality to collect information about its use by a children.
The teacher will be collecting the information and recording using the application by going from the teacher menu to the view the result report for each of her student.
Costs:
Equipment (PC or other applicable device if the children does not have one already).
Resource desktop/native version: 25 EUR from http://www.sesarab.com
Training staff cost for at least 2 hours
Risks and Challenges: (What pre-conditions are required before the use of the resource starts? What conditions outside the user's direct control have to be met for the implementation of the planned activities?)
The child need to have basic ICT skills such as mouse skills.
Make sure that the child has access to the resource. The software need to be install on the PC of the child and he needs to have also access to traditional mouse or trackball mouse.
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