Fourth Annual One-to-One Computing Conference

I'm in a session at ISTE's NECC Conference. These are the big ideas that came out of the session:

Assessment vs Evaluation:
Assessment is aimed at understanding what students know, while evaluation looks at the worth of a program or practice

PADI Principled Assessment Design for Inquiry
Angela Haydel DeBarger SRI, Inc.

It's a hard job. PADI is a system is designed to help educators create tools that enhance assessment design. From knowing what students know... observe students and interpret their behaviors.

"Task templates" describe the task

A "Design Pattern" - helps understand the abiliteis to be attained.

A "Summsry Task Template" contins the details of the other templates.

The "Student Model" identifies all of the abilities and knolwledge that are to be assessed.

The "Evidence Model" identified the observable behaviors or products that will be used as evidence.

The "Task Model" is used to describe the kinds of data that will be presented to students as the task.

PADI has been applied in several cases.

Case 2: Corinne Singleton
Intel Skills for Success Assessment Rubrics
Curricular goals: Tech Literacy, critical thinking and collaboration, in middle school students in developing countries in which students have had little experience with tech.

They chose a multiple choice test, for legitimacy purposes (?)

Apple 1:1 Computing nad iPod Initiative Evaluation Toolkits