After attending a workshop on the use of handheld technologies such as a Personal Digital Assistant (e.g. Palm) in the classroom, Mr. Cote prepared to make a case to his school district administrators as to why they should purchase PDA's for the teachers in his building. When considering summative assessment which argument can Mr. Cote best make?

Question

A) I can prepare a simple spreadsheet which has the process skills I'm evaluating as column headers and student names down the rows. As our students are engaged in the processes of science I can simply walk around the classroom with my PDA, observe my students while they perform their science activities, and immediately record their ability to engage in the various process skills with a quick check on my PDA spreadsheet.
B) I can quickly record anecdotal evidence of student performance using the notepad feature of the PDA for each student.
C) I can pre-load student performance objectives, making them unique for each student and record my observations on the extent to which each student is meeting the objective. D) None of the above is a good argument.
E) A, B, and C are sound arguments as to how a hand held device can assist in student evaluation and assessment.

Answer 1

E