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- Title
Exploring Formative Assessment with a Project Using Mobile Phones.
- Authors
Richards, Reshan
- Abstract
This paper describes an instructional intervention that explored formative assessment through students' use of mobile phone devices. This activity is a part of broader research related to the author's dissertation, which focuses on meaningful formative assessment through multimedia production. The intent of the learning design was to leverage aspects of constructivist learning theory, iterative instructional design, authentic assessment tasks, and elements of an emerging mobile learning theory. Qualitative research methods were employed to gain information about the following question: In what ways does formative assessment through oral responses captured by mobile phones help students' understanding of algebraic inequalities? The learning activity took place at a co-ed New York City independent school in an 8th grade algebra class with 14 students and one teacher. The teacher posed an open-ended question and prompted the students to come up with an oral response to describe a situation involving algebraic inequalities that they may encounter in their lives. These oral responses were submitted via cell phones, and they were captured and shared via CinchCast, a free web-based service. Using a rubric with explicit criteria and expectations as a guide (Wiggins, 2009), the students received peer and teacher feedback (Pitler, Hiubbel, Kuhn, and Malensoki, 2007). They were then asked to make revisions and resubmit their oral response several times until the conclusion of the project, which spanned a 3 week period.
- Subjects
FORMATIVE tests; CELL phones; MULTIMEDIA systems; MACHINE learning; MOBILE learning; CONSTRUCTIVISM (Education)
- Publication
Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, 2012, Vol 4, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
1835-9795
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18848/1835-9795/CGP/v04i02/40327