DSD Professional Development Presents the Blended Learning CookBook

Data Section
Collecting and Using Data to Drive Blended Learning
Articles

For this section there are four articles for you to read about "Collecting/Using Data".  While you are reading the articles take notes in your Blended Learning Cookbook.  The Blended Learning Coach will go over the notes with you during your small group instruction on "Collecting/Using Data".   When you are finished reading the articles, complete the survey form at the bottom of the page.  This will prompt a Blended Learning Coach that you have completed this section of the "Collecting/Using Data" Articles.

Formative Assessment

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Formative Assessment: The goal of formative assessment is to gather feedback that can be used by the teacher and the students to guide improvements in the ongoing teaching and learning context. These are low stakes assessments for students and instructors.
Examples:
  • Asking students to submit one or two sentences identifying the main point of a chapter
  • Exit Tickets at the end of the session
  • Online quizzes after reading or watching content for class.

Take a look at this article on Formative Assessment 

Formative Assessment tools

Blended Learning Assessments

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Read the article from The Blendkit that talks about how to generate questions using Bloom's Taxonomy and how a Blended Learning classroom should have a mixture of online test and offline test.  The final take away from this article should focus on how to make sure the students are prepared for the test.  Don't introduce a new tool for an assessment.  Practice how to use the tool before taking the test. 

Post about how you use data to #BLCB

Formative vs Summative 

For more information about Formative vs Summative click on this Link. 

Using the Data

The data collected from the assessments should drive the student's individual learning path.  I use Google Spreadsheet to help collect the data to determine what path or goals the student should take next.  Here is just an example of one of my Google Spreadsheet for the Blended Learning Cookbook workshop.  

Using Data in A 3rd Grade ELA 
Blended Learning Classroom

The below data was collected throughout one whole school year.  The students used the online program, Achieve 3000, as part of their English Language Arts block.  The teacher and I started using the data to drive the classroom instruction in October of 2014.  Together we created a list of topics that the students needed extra help and support and grouped the students into ability group based on the data.  The weekly meetings always explored the data from Achieve, created a list of activities both online and offline, as well as formative assessments based on each topic.  The results from using the data are showcased below.  Click on the pictures to see the data up close.  

Blended Learning by Numbers