Use a challenge presented in a media simulation, Analyzing Tools to Collect Data, to determine your ability to make the right choices when it comes to using technology tools to collect data.

Applying Technology Tools to Collect Data

Collection of reliable assessment data on student learning and engagement using appropriate technology tools (6-10 pages).

Using data for instructional decisions requires that you use valid and reliable data. Ensuring validity and reliability in your data means that you have to use the right tool for the right reason at the right time.

For this assessment you will use a challenge presented in a media simulation, Analyzing Tools to Collect Data, to determine your ability to make the right choices when it comes to using technology tools to collect data.

Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following competency and assessment scoring guide criteria:

Competency: Apply technology tools to collect valid, reliable assessment data on student learning and engagement.
Articulate the strengths and weaknesses of technology tools for quantitative and qualitative data collection.
Describe the process to choose technology tools for data collection supported by research and best practices.
Apply one quantitative data collection tool to collect valid, reliable assessment data on student learning and engagement.
Apply one qualitative data collection tool to collect valid, reliable assessment data on student learning and engagement.

Instructions
View the Riverbend City media simulation linked below to use as the context for your assessment:

Analyzing Tools to Collect Data | Transcript Attached
Once you have completed the simulation (transcript of simulation attached), imagine yourself as one of the 8th grade teachers at Madison Middle School who is collecting data to answer the question presented by your school principal. Complete and submit the following components:

Articulate the strengths and weaknesses of technology tools for quantitative and qualitative data collection. Briefly annotate the characteristics of at least two qualitative and two quantitative data collection tools. (Walk through the different technology tools available to collect data, what they can do, what they cannot do, and whether they might work for your particular needs—formative assessment or summative assessment data collection, quantitative or qualitative data, et cetera.)
Describe the tools you chose and the process you used to choose the right technology tools for data collection to answer the questions. How is your decision supported by research and best practices to choose the right data collection technology?

Apply at least one qualitative and one quantitative data collection technology tool to collect valid, reliable assessment data on student learning and engagement. Submit cleaned up data that is ready to be analyzed.