Assessment

Students will watch this video on how to find the mean, median, and mode, while they are at home.  I will know if they have watched it based on the students who have taken the quiz.  I will also be able to guide instruction around common mistakes I see on the quiz. 

Blooms:

-Students will compare and contrast mean, median, and mode

-Students will identify when it is appropriate to use mean, median, and mode to represent different sets of data

-Students will determine the mean, median, and mode of a set of data

I believe PlayPosit is a great application to use in a flipped classroom.  However, when students work from home, it's hard to identify who is looking up the answers on the internet and who is actually doing the work.  This will also be hard to implement if students don't have technology at home.

Students will be given a statistics project as a summative assessment.  This will be used to assess learning rather than a test format.  Students will be asked to come up with a topic that will have numerical data.  For example, “How many siblings do you have?”  Students will collect this data from 50 people.  Using this data, students will analyze the data using techniques they have learned throughout the units.  I will have students present this information as a project of their choosing (poster, PowerPoint, etc).

Blooms:

-Students will research a topic of their choice

-Students will calculate the mean, median, and mode of a data set

-Students will calculate and analyze the standard deviation of a data set

-Students will analyze and make conclusions about a data set

-Students will construct a Box and Whiskers Plot.

With a project-based assessment, it is hard to grade creativity because everyone has their own level of creativity.  I could see this being the hardest part to grade in this project.  It may also be a challenge to help students come up with topics to choose so that there are no repeats.  Students may also struggle to construct a graph if the numerical data they collect are more than single digits. 

I will use this poll after I have completed my lesson on transformations of parent functions.  I will use this poll as a formative assessment to see what common mistakes students are still making.  I will be able to guide my instruction by seeing, right away, how many students in my class are grasping the concept and how many are not.

Blooms:

-Students will compare and contrast different transformations on parent functions

-Students will identify when a parent functions shifts, reflects, stretches, or compresses

-Students will analyze equations to determine the transformation

The only struggle I may have with using Kahoot, is making sure that my students don't just click an answer.  When some students see multiple choice, they believe they can just pick an answer without doing any calculations.  It may take some practice to teach the students to slow down and actually do the calculations before selecting their answer.  I would also need to make sure that every student had some type of technological device so that they can all access this poll during my lesson.  

Kahoot! Link

Application: The readings from week 1 came into effect when choosing the video for my quiz.  I had to think about the Voice and Embodiment principle.  When creating the rubric, I had to think about the Pre-Training principle.  I had to make sure I was using vocabulary that the students had heard before or they would not be able to understand the rubric.  For the first time, I used the Segmented principle.  When creating the video, the questions are given at the end of each segment.  This helped to break apart the three different segments that the video was teaching.  This will help students fully understand each segment.

Reflection:

I really loved using PlayPosit this week.  I think this is a great way to help students learn information.  I could see myself using this on students who want to retake assessments.  I could assign a few of these quizzes and make them complete them before they come to the retake. This will allow students to have extra practice on the standards they still are not proficient in.  This will also eliminate a lot of grading because it is all done online!  One thing I learned about assessments that utilize technology is that it can be a huge time-saver.  I don’t have to spend hours grading formative assessments when technology can collect that data for me.  This will help me utilize formative assessments more regularly in my classroom. 

One thing I struggled with this week was creating the rubric.  It was hard to find an application that would let you have enough rows for all the category.  I also struggled with coming up with what each level would represent (differentiating between beginner and developing).  However, the more I worked on it, I realized that if I am more specific with what I want in each category, it made it easier to differentiate between each level.  I also struggled with embedding the rubric into my blog.  I ended up screenshotting a picture of the rubric and attaching it as a picture.  I’m not sure if there is a better way to add a document to the blog or not.