During the Quality feedback quest, I had the opportunity to learn what quality feedback is. We often gravitate towards easy feedback, like "good job" or "way to go". During this quest, I learned that it is important to be specific with what I think is a "good" response. I also took a concept from the lesson and reinforced it in the feedback. Quality feedback is feedback that provides details about the assignment and reinforces the concept being taught.
The summative assessment discussed validity, reliability and security. All three of these areas are important to a quality LMS. Having assessments that are valid and come from the course material is important. Ensuring that we are testing and evaluating students over the material that we are teaching is the only way to measure what we are trying to teach. Reliability gives us the option to gather feedback on assessments. This provides us the opportunity to see if we are assessing what our course is set up to teach. Finally, security is address. Setting up an assessment system where the integrity of our system is kept and also provides a fair opportunity for evaluation is vital.
Data driven instruction, analytics and reporting is in my opinion the backbone of a quality LMS. The enrollment and attendance, communication and analytics are all addressed and discussed in my blog. Without the data reporting in each of these areas, the LMS would not function. Each and everyone of these areas discussed are important to refining and expanding the quality of an LMS.
The differentiation quest provided me the opportunity to see student data on a whole. This data allows me to take each student and evaluate where their weaknesses are. I am able to than communicate with the student and tailor their educational needs based of the data that I have collected. The data can show correlations between assignments and overall success.
