Leveraging Digital Tools to Assess Student Learning

<p><em>Leveraging Digital Tools to Assess Student Learning</em> provides a practical approach to using technology to collect interpret and curate assessment data in K-12 in-person online hybrid and dual learning environments. Digital media emerging learning technologies and handheld devices play larger roles than ever in students’ 21st-century educational experiences. Digital tools meanwhile can also transform assessment practices for teachers allowing more efficient means of identifying gaps and modifying instruction to maximize student learning. Situating assessment practices in today’s networked flexible and virtual classrooms this book reframes polling and quizzing social media and memes and multimedia platforms as digital learning tools for engaging interactive and meaningful formative summative open-ended peer and self-paced assessments. The final chapter discusses technology’s role in organizing evaluating and disseminating assessment data to students their families and administrators.</p>