Technology Tools for Assessment and Evaluation

The combination of technology and the understanding of how the assessment-decision making process works allows for teachers to be extremely successful. While taking SPED 467, I have seen the great importance of effective decision making in the classroom. Good judgement, a quality gathering of assessment materials, and helpful technology will make a teacher's job more efficient and beneficial. As a future teacher, I will undoubtedly need to acquire good technology to supplement in my evaluation process. Before I reach the formative and summative evaluation steps, I will need to do the first steps of the CBE process of inquiry (fact finding, hypothesize, and validating). During these steps I will utilize technology to gather my information and sift through it. Test scores, records, and other sources that can be accessed on the computer will make a teacher's job of making decisions much more effective. After the teacher gathers the data, they will decide what to teach and how to teach it. While writing the lesson plan, technology will make the job more time efficient and effective. I feel that technology can be effectively integrated with assessment and decision making. In fact, technology makes the whole process much more efficient so that teachers can spend more time on interactive face to face with their students rather than spending all of their time contemplating their decisions.