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Technology-Assisted Assessment Inquiry Part 2 Melissa Vanderstappen Grand Canyon University: TEC-546 Assessment and Technology July 26, 2013

Abstract:
The basis of this social studies lesson was designed to give students an opportunity to learn and explore through maps and how they relate to them as students. The purpose of this lesson was to get students to demonstrate, compare, discover, describe, and locate geographic skills on a map and a globe by using different technology software's and programs. One main goal in this lesson was to let students learn how maps are a part of their everyday lives and how important it is to learn map skills at a young age. They also are able to depict where things are located in relation to other places and how to navigate from one place to another. Maps teach students about similarities and differences of various places. During the lesson students were able to work through many different tasks in a Web Quest either individually, in small groups, or whole group to work through different parts of the map lesson. They also used many different technology tools to locate their town, neighborhood, city, county, state, world and which planet they live on. This gave them many different ways to analysis maps.

Before starting the lesson I gave the whole class a pre-test. This pre-test allowed me as the teacher to see what prerequisite skills the students had and to determine the overall level of background knowledge of the class as a whole. After charting the pre-test data in a spreadsheet and reviewing the class's responses it was apparent that the concept of where they lived was very concrete. The majority of the class needed more examples, information, and hands on experiences to understand the seven continents and five oceans. Overall, the students had a very good concept of where they lived, their neighborhood, city, and state. But students did need help in realized different aspects of these areas on a map and needed more was to see them actually on a map.

Therefore, at the end of the Map Quest students where given the same test as their post-test. The students responded to multiple choice and short answer questions. The results are charted below in a chart below. Overall, students performed significantly well on the objective and assessments addressed in this lesson. The students did really well on questions that related directly with them such as if it talk about where they lived, what city was their school in, etc. This lesson gave students the ability to learn these objectives through different technologies and hands on experiences in different learning groups. This lesson also met many of the different learning styles and it was evident that students learned through all the activities of the lesson

Assessment: Pre-Test Results
In this social studies lesson called "Me on the Map" students took a pre-test that will be exactly like there post-test. After giving this assessment I was able to see exactly what areas of my lesson that I needed to really focus on plus it helped me to know what background knowledge they knew about maps and where they lived. Student's response were recorded in a spreadsheet from their online Google doc quiz.
 * Questions || Results ||
 * #1 || 60% ||
 * #2 || 80% ||
 * #3 || 50% ||
 * #4 || 70% ||
 * #5 || 60% ||
 * #6 || 40% ||
 * #7 || 40% ||
 * #8 || 80% ||

Assessment: Post-Test Results
Upon completing the Web Quest on "Me on the Map" the students completed an online quiz. The quiz consisted of several questions with a variety of question layouts. The following is chart shows the post-assessment quiz data.
 * Questions || Results ||
 * #1 || 100% ||
 * #2 || 80% ||
 * #3 || 100% ||
 * #4 || 80% ||
 * #5 || 70% ||
 * #6 || 70% ||
 * #7 || 90% ||
 * #8 || 100% ||