Ed 103 oasis E-portfolio

         Oasis E-portfolio 2011 is designed and collated to maximize learning outcomes through E-Portfolio used for assessment purposes in predicting, understanding, and controlling the fundamental principles of learning and assessment as they apply in educational settings. Oasis E-portfolio 2011 is characterized by collections of student work and appended articles,lectures,videos,pictures that exhibit to the faculty and the student the student's progress and achievement in given areas.

              In classrooms where assessment for learning is practiced, students know at the outset of a unit of study what they are expected to learn. At the beginning of the unit, the teacher will work with the student to understand what she or he already knows about the topic as well as to identify any gaps or misconceptions (initial/diagnostic assessment). As the unit progresses, the teacher and student work together to assess the student’s knowledge, what she or he needs to learn to improve and extend this knowledge, and how the student can best get to that point (formative assessment). Assessment for learning occurs at all stages of the learning process.

      

oEstablishing clear, measurable expected outcomes of student learning

oEnsuring that students have sufficient opportunities to achieve those outcomes

oSystematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches our outcomes/expectations

oUsing the resulting information to understand and improve student learning through utilization of e-media and  ICT programs.

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Group Refection

Anthony I. Chan 

1.What was your reaction to the online Blog Activity?

As a blogger myself, I find the blog activity a holistic experience. It would be a great avenue for a blogger neophyte like me to exercise my blogging skills; besides the blog activity we have does not only initiate higher order thinking skills but also maximizes ICT and web media on hand.  I have come to explore the internet resource to have a meaningful and efficient learning about our subject. As a whole, this one of a kind experience effectively contribute to my learning   experience , to have more grasp of the real application and authentic tasks that has brought this learning experience a worth remembering.

2. Are you having some difficulty configuring the use of Web Blogging? Explain.

Since I have a little background of Web blogging it is just easy for me to deal with the configuration of the Blog. The gadgets are just one click away; links are just there, html configurations and others. The instructions are given; basically it depends upon what blog site where you intend to have an account, because definitely blogger.com is a user-friendly blog site unlike Wordpress.

3.Did the activity give you deeper or broader understanding about the use of Blogs? Why?

This activity has brought me a deeper and wider use and understanding about blog. I have come to know that through blog I can maximize and broadcast my learning about the subject, the blog has served to be an immediate reinforcement about what I have learned from the class, as what they say, learning does not end only in the four corners of a classroom and indeed it happens, I have got to outsource information from different web sites and linked it on my blog that has given me ample knowledge of the topic.

4. Did the activity increases or decreases your enthusiasm and, willingness or effort to learn more about technology? Why?

The Web Blogging activity has indeed increased my enthusiasm to learn more about technology because I’ve got to be exposed with the World Wide Web, thus initiates higher order thinking skills. I browse pictures, upload videos and explore Assessment lectures which really have given  me knowledge about technology and its interplay with learning.

5.   5.What important things have you learned from this activity?

The Web Blogging activity served to be a significant role in my learning the subject. I learned that using E-portfolio would be an effective tool for teachers and for future teachers to give or to initiate authentic assessment through technology. I learned to go beyond the limits of the traditional learning, in a fast pace world like ours, Web Blogging would be the best and most effective tool for college students like me, less papers less hassle.

6.    6. What generalization can you formulate with this activity?

The Web Blogging activity is a bright idea to ponder on, how could one ever imagine that portfolios can be set up in web. Indeed this activity has instilled true learning among students like me; I recommend this tool to be utilized by teachers because as a student who has experienced this activity I could say that inputs remain intakes through Web blogs.

Ronald Vincent S. Estremos

      I.        1.What was your reaction to the online Blog activity?

        At first it was kind of hassle in our part as a student, but later on I appreciate the value of having the blog as part of or social life. We need not only to be socially acquainted with the people that surround us but also to the cyberworld. As a future teacher we have to enhance ourselves using and integrating technology to our teaching techniques.

    II.        2.Are you having some difficulty configuring the use of Web Blogging? Explain

During the making of the blog, it was slightly easy for me because I do have background during my educational technology 2, we also do have activity like this. We were assigned a special task individually so it was not hard for us in making the blog.

   III.        3.Did the activity gave you deeper or broader understanding about the use of blogs? Why?

Yes, because through this blog, I can now express myself freely, doing my own work in the web

  IV.        4.Did the activity increases or decreases your enthusiasm, willingness or effort to learn more about technology? Why?

Yes it increases my enthusiasm to learn more regarding with the recent technology that we are enjoying now. This is very useful to everyone, to those who are knowledgeable and willing to learn.

   V.        5.What are the important things have you learned from this activity?

The important things that I learned out of making it were, first is that I learn how to manipulate the web, it increases my proficiency in the English language, it teaches me to be more creative.

  VI.        6.What generalization can you formulate with this activity?

My final statement is, being proficient in the right use of technology is a useful tool in the field of teaching.

My Journey

                                            Anthony Chan

  

It was a slip of time when I could still remember our first day of class, dated  14th of April 2011, it was just an ordinary day I guess, the sun was highly raising up, indicating that summer season had beset, I got my stuffs in my bag pack, groomed and fixed myself and ready to introduce myself in one-by-one preludes. I suddenly noticed it was quite different now, I was totally alienated to the place, what does an AB-English student is doing at H-Building? Indeed, a ramble ride, no matter how incongruent it may seem I could not find any other place where I could home my heart perfectly-- education. It had never crashed in my mind to be a teacher, jokingly aside, what would i teach my students? I don't know yet, all I know I'm good at all fields( not sounding like bragging myself). Maybe i assume so much from myself perhaps. I'm a grown-up now and must act what it calls forth. 

   Everything happens for a purpose they say, and I believe as much as God's, that everything is not an accident, even why you are reading this or what is this thing all about and what is this thing for. to satisfy perhaps your curiosity, this is a requirement in ED 103 (Assessment of Student Learning) class. I am even more grateful that I have endearing and intellectually statistic professor,Dr. Ava, her name is an understatement because if I would able to describe her, I would not ran out of good adjectives, after all she remains humble.

    I know this worthwhile experience will serve as springboard to reach my full potential-- as an educator, a molder, and more importantly a well rounded human being. I believe ED103 is a helpful tool future teachers, it orients in assessment of learning and how teachers can present student with real world challenges that require them to apply relevant skills and knowledge. With fast pace growing influence of worldwide technology, the subject does not only require student to develop responses but also elicits higher order thinking in addition to basic skills.

     In sum, every thread of this holistic experience awakens and maximizes dormant potentials of the learners as much as the teachers, that is the good thing or even the best thing about it, and thus remains in every heart of educators.

Ronald Vincent Estremos

It was a very tiring day for a student who was currently survive from a stressful subjects of the previous semester and now here I am again enrolling for the summer class. As an incoming fourth year student I am eager to finish my schooling this incoming 2012 graduation , I would like to see myself wearing those toga as a sign of my fulfilled dream, having a bachelors degree. So I am striving hard now to cope with the behind subjects that I forgot to take before. Now I'm enrolling the Ed103, Math 2 and Math31 subjects which I find useful and interesting because they were interrelated to each other. I am thankful that we are handled by a dynamic professor named Dr. Ava Clare Marie O. Robles, she is really fit to the subject that she is handling now, she has a lot to offer and to share to her students. The knowledge that she will impart will be useful for us future teachers. The subject Education 103 or the Assessment of Student Learning  has been defined by D. Rowntree (1977) as "getting to know our students and the quality of their learning". P. Ramsden (1992) describes it as a way of teaching more effectively through understanding exactly what students know and do not know. Thus, assessment enables the teacher/lecturer to understand the processes and outcomes of student learning. It helps to determine what students actually achieve in their study. Such meaningful information on student learning can be used for academic improvement. It is not an end in itself but a means to an educational purpose. Assessment plays a key role in determining the quality of student learning. If students perceive that their learning will be measured in terms of producing facts, they will adopt surface approaches to learning. Therefore, whatever assessment methods we adopt will encourage different approaches to learning. D. Boud sums it up succinctly, "assessment methods and requirements probably have a greater influence on how and what students learn than any other single factor. This influence may well be of greater importance than the impact of teaching methods".

The assessment of learning by definiton is a gathering and synthesizing useful information from your student and the classroom. As a teacher you are responsible for the overall management of the classroom and handling also your students.

So as we future teachers, as we discover the more exciting world of education, we must attentively listen to our professors because they are the only reliable persona that can feed our hungry minds with the philosophy, technique and ways leading to the quality of education we were looking for.

Rowena S. Batuat

In our first class im excited and nervous,excited because I know this is a new experience of being a student its a new knowledge to learn and nervous because this is a new struggle to come but i tell to myself this is the life of student, when im entered in our classroom my classmate told us that maam Robles is our professor in ed 103 .Im so glad because i knew maam Robles is very effective teacher she's my idol; although there's a lot of requirements but that's part of our subject. And i know that's the way she teaches us on how to become a responsible and effective teacher someday. She trained us on how to become a good and effective teacher,like me as a future teacher this a very important. I'm so bless because ma'am taught us how to become a responsible and effective teacher somedy.THANKS MAAM GOD BLESS YOU.

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 APPENDED ARTICLE:
JULY 28, 2010
Gloria Rogers, Ph.D

Using Techology in Program Assessment

Posted by Gloria Rogers at 9:59 AM

I often get asked about the use of technology in program assessment. In the mid-90's I was involved in the development of an electronic portfolio system that was used for students to document their work related to the performance indicators (see previous posting) and for faculty to rate student performance using scoring rubrics.  It was also used to map the curriculum and generate reports. It was a huge investment in human and capital resources as this was before there were commercial products available. However, I remain very proud of the effort and the results.

Since that time there have been numerous commercial products developed to manage the outcomes assessment process. Is it necessary to buy commercial tools to have a robust outcomes assessment process? Absolutely not! Can technology solutions be helpful in managing the process and tracking the results? Absolutely.

There are lots of considerations when considering a technology solution to the outcomes assessment process. The first thing is to be very clear about what a system can and cannot do. It CANNOT do your program assessment and evaluation for you! The institution or program must first define the intended outcomes and performance indicators. Without a doubt, that is the most difficult part of the process. Once the indicators have been defined you need to be clear about the role of students and faculty in the use of the techology. Also, who is the technology "owner"--who will maintain it, keep the outcomes/indicators current, generate reports, etc. etc.

Get references! Talk to other institutions/programs to see what their experience has been using the technology. Don't just listen to the company sales people. Ask yourself, "What are we currently doing or not doing that the use of technology would make it more efficient or effective?" Use that as a starting point. 

For your convenience, here is a list of SOME of the commercial tools available as a way to get started in your search. 

Technology for Program Assessment

Technology for Program Assessment