NEXT-TELLNext Generation Teaching, Education and Learning for Life

www.next-tell.eu

Assessment for learning

Who?

EU-project with 12 partners from 7 different countries

Started in September 2010 and lasts until 2014

Partners: JOANNEUM RESEARCH (Coordinator) (Austria), UNI RESEARCH AS (Norway), Institut für Wissensmedien - Knowledge Media Research Center (Germany). Technische Universität Graz (Austria), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Birmingham (GB), London Knowledge Lab (GB), eXact learning solutions S.p.A. (Italy), Verein Offenes Lernen – Sektion talkademy (Austria), BOC Asset Management GmbH (Autria), BOC Information Technologies Consulting Sp. z o.o. (Poland), MTO Psychologische Forschung und Beratung GmbH (Germany)

What?

An environment that supports teachers and students in the use of various sources for information gathering in both the classroom and at home, as well as for the teacher in educational decision making

Examine how formative assessment can be supported through the use of information and communication technology (ICT)

21st Century Classroom Learning

NEXT-TELL

To …... find innovative technology systems, which can be used by teachers for

continuity in, and collaboration for, formative assessment

... assist teachers in precise and quick decisions to encourage and promote learning

... identify the infrastructure that can provide better teaching, diagnosis, workflow and productivity

... strengthen the culture for learning, collaboration and communication between students, teachers, parents and school management

.... strengthen teachers' assessment competences and enable them to facilitate the practice of adaptive teaching through assessment

Participation in the project, will enable teachers and students to collaborate with teachers and students in several European countries

NEXT-TELL vision

Research Questions How do teachers assess in the technology-rich classroom?

How do a teacher select assessment criteria?

What methods and tools are in use?

How are assessment competences transferred from one teacher to another?

How do teachers collaborate on assessment?

How is experience on assessment shared?

How can we use ICT for formative assessment?

1. Focus areas: Middle school level STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language)

2. Baseline studies Researcher driven

Interviews with teachers and school leaders Start: April/Mai

3. Design studies Research initiated – teacher controlled Scenario Science(computer visualisation ), English (co-writing, oral in Second Life)

Film and sound recording Interviews with teachers, students, school administrators and parents

Start: September/October

How?

Teacher support tools: overview

Applicationsin schools

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that get automatically* delivered to students.

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Student information

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All data are kept confidential when stored

Only researchers in the project will have access to data

All researchers are subject to confidentiality

Only de-identified, transcribed data, will be stored for research and use after the project is ended, and all film and audio will be destroyed

Data from Norway will be shared with international partners

Participation is voluntary and consent may be withdrawn during the research period without reasons

The project is reported to the Privacy Ombudsman for Research and the Norwegian Social Science Data Services

Ethics

Research based methods that produce data for understanding how students can become better learners, must be based on their own experiences from school and home, as well as input from teachers, parents and school leadership.

Research based school development

Interested? Considering participation?

More information about the project in general at:http://www.next-tell.eu.

More information about schools’ role and participation at:http://www.next-tell.eu/schools/

For enquiries, mail to:NEXT-TELL-office@joanneum.at

Executive Board Meeting, Graz

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