Title: Job Aid for Testing
What each student knows and doesn't know
Performer(s):
Bruce Britton
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3013
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Cluster: EAGIL
Contact Information:
Phone: 706-543-3094
Fax: 706-542-3275
email: BBritton@uga.cc.uga.edu
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1. Instructional Focus:
Content areas/topics: Applicable to any topic; science and history are the most obvious areas.
Process skills: Memory, comprehension, learning, higher-order problem solving skills.
2. Target Population: Applicable to any population; range of grade level is 6-12.
3. Summary Description: This Job Aid helps teachers with teaching. Specifically, the Job Aid:
- Makes up tests, including: (a) Diagnostic tests to determine what each student knows and doesn't know; (b) Pretests to find out if students have read the assignment and are ready to learn; (c) Post-tests for assessing students' learning at the end of chapters and units for midterm and final examinations, all with only 1-4 minutes of teacher time.
- Automatically administers the tests to students.
- Automatically grades the tests, and gives the teacher easy-to-use feedback o n what the student knows and doesn't know.
- Interprets the results so the teacher can: respond to student progress; give the student guidance; support individualized learning.
4. Training and Staff Development:
- Teacher prerequisite skills/knowledge needed: Basic computer skills; this pr oduct proposes to be user friendly.
- Student prerequisite skills needed: Basic computer skills; this product prop oses to be user friendly.
- Training needed/provided: Minimal training needed/it will be provided.
- Technical Support needed/provided: Only basic support for the computer is needed.
5. Technological/Resources Needed: IBM or clone with Windows 3.1 or higher.
6. Intended Outcomes:
Students: Improved learning, individualized learning, improved guidance, res ponse to student progress, home learning improved.
Teachers: Reduce teacher workload in testing, improved response to student progress, improved guidance for the student, improved support for individualized learning.
7. Instructional Time Required: To instruct teacher in use: 1-2 hours or less.
8. Role of the Pilot Teacher(s): To suggest improvements to make the Job Aid even more useful and easy to use than it already is.
9. Example(s) of Use of This Product (Scenario):
A. Teacher Scenario
Mr. Mentor is sitting in his classroom looking pensively out the window. He is concerned that John Novice is not doing well on his science unit on the solar system. He logs on to the Job Aid for Testing, and clicks on the Office for Previous Testing. He clicks on the solar system test he took 2 minutes to make up last year, and then clicks on the Office for Administering Tests. The Job Aid prompts him to type in Johnny Novice's name.
Later that day, he gets a message from the Job Aid: "The diagnosis for Johnny Novice on the solar system unit is ready." He clicks on the message, and up pops the diagnoses for Johnny. Johnny understands the inner planets and how their characteristics relate to the way they formed, but he doesn't understand how the outer planets' characteristics relate to their formation, especially the different between Pluto and the other outer planets.
Mr. Mentor sends a message to Johnny, asking him to ckeck our Pluto versus the other planets, as if he were taking a space probe to them to investigate their origins.
B. Student Scenario
Jane Novice is at home in her room. Her computer beeps so she knows she's gotten a message. She logs on and finds a message from Miss Mentor, asking her some questions about the solar system. She has been wondering about that lately, so she's happy to try to give the best answer she can.
Some time later, she gets another message from Miss Mentor, proposing she ride along on a space probe to the outer planets, and asking whether she would expect to find that Pluto is different from the others, and also asking her to make some good guesses about how the planets were formed, based on how they look now.
