Week 9 Reading

"Some teachers may also find it useful to assign students a progress journal (Figure 4) in which they, too, can record their developing assessments of their own composing processes and products."

I like the idea of the student’s progress journal they mention in this part of the article. I think that having the students monitoring their own project, it will help them clearly see what they are struggling with and what they do well at. Writing down questions and concerns will help the students to focus on areas that they know they know need more work.  A progress journal would also give them something to look back on when creating new projects. Finding new pertinent answers to questions from previous assignments will allow them to achieve better results with the new project. Overall, this would be a great learning tool for the assignment in progress and for assignments to come.

Retrieved from www.amle.org

 

This is just an example of a journal prompt that can be used to assess a student's knowledge of a certain subject. 

1. What should the assessments of multimodal text provide for students?

The assessments should provide not only set the expectation for what the end result of the assignment

should be, but it should also serve as a guideline for the students along the way. Giving students

formative assessments can help them make corrections or refocus on the point of the assignments.

Providing the assessments in the middle can help the students understand the what’s and why’s of the

project so that in future assignments they will be able to create better work.

2. What are the benefits to using formative assessment when asking students to compose
 
multimodal texts?

Using a formative assessment helps the students to fix problems as they come up while creating

the multimodal text. It gives them guidance throughout the process so they can make corrections

before they finish the whole thing. If things are explained in the middle, they can understand why

they were going in the wrong direction. This will help their overall scores improve and help them

to better know what to do next time. It will also make the summative assessment more accurate

by making sure the students focus their attention throughout the creation process, given a better

final result.

3. How do you feel about collaboratively constructing rubrics or assessment criteria with students?

I think that it is somewhat a good idea. It would help the students if they were part of the rubric-

making process because then they would know exactly what was expected of them. It also means

that the expectations wouldn’t be too high because the students would mention if something seemed

unreasonable while making the rubric. Even though it would help the students in this aspect, I do not

think that this should be the sole grading criteria used for the project. Other pieces of the rubrics or

assessments need to be added without the students to ensure they truly understood the point of the

assignment.
 
4. Find a rubric or modify this Digital Composing Rubric to assess the multimodal product students will creating as a result of their Multimodal Learning Adventure and link to it from your Blog. You can use RubiStar to find, create, or modify your rubric.

Click on this Link to see the Rubric created by Rubistar that will be used to assess the Learning Adventure.