A.+Miller

This research project will attempt to show the affects of different forms of assessment on student learning. The study will take place at Barrington High School in the Technology Education program. The students in the Woodworking classes will be assessed during the third quarter of the 2008-2009 school years. The students will be pre-tested before the beginning of the quarter on the material that has been covered in class and post-tested at the end. During the quarter class one will receive no form of assessment during the quarter, only a summative assessment at the end. Class two will receive on going formative assessment during the quarter and a summative assessment at the end of the quarter. Class three will receive a woodworking rubric at the beginning of the quarter and a summative assessment at the end of the quarter. During this quasi research study information will be sought out to help improve student knowledge and teacher classroom practices. The following hypothesis was used during this research project: The relationship between different forms of assessment and student success is an important tool for the Technology Education Teacher. Constant feedback in the lab will be more effective and will help improve student knowledge of the material being studied. ·  Class #1 will receive no feedback during the quarter, only a summative assessment at the end. The result of less feedback will have a negative affect on student knowledge of the related material. ·  Class #2 will receive formative assessment during the quarter and a summative evaluation at the end. This constant feedback will prove to benefit student learning and improve student knowledge of the related material. ·  Class #3 will receive a woodworking rubric at the beginning of the quarter that will help guide the student through the related material. At the end of the quarter a summative assessment will be given to all the students. The end result should be improved student learning and knowledge of the related material. ** Review of Literature ** Technology Education assessments vary among different school systems. Due to varying reasons such as school district requirements, state and federal law and teacher input, assessment can be applied in many different ways. Research studies from different technology Education classrooms and Labs where reviewed to help determine the most affective ways students can be assessed and to determine the most affective method and or methods used. This review will examine different articles and studies that have taken place and attempt to examine the results. The result will hopefully provide information related to the stated question”how do different forms of feedback affect student achievement in Technology Education.” This review will look at different articles and literature on “feedback” related to education. Gary Wiggin’s article, Feedback: How Learning occurs, talks about the different context in which educators use the term feedback. Some people feel that the sharing of test scores with parents or commenting back on student work is feedback. According to Gary Wiggins feedback must be useful information about performance. “Feedback is value-neutral help on worthy tasks. It describes what the learner did or did not do in relation to his or her goals. It is actionable information that empowers the student to make intelligent adjustments when he or she applies it to the next attempt to perform. Sometimes feedback comes from teachers. In most cases, however, it comes from the activity itself. After winning his first Masters Tournament, Tiger Woods explained how he turned his early performance around. He describes how he knew from his first putt on the back nine that he was not playing well, and said to himself that he had to adjust his performance. But to know you need to adjust you need on-going feedback. Tiger knew, on the basis of effects: the path of the ball, not because some test specialist gave him a score a month later. Too often we do not build such a self-adjustment into the assessment, even as life typically does.”
 * __ Masters Capstone Project __**
 * Research Question **
 * “How do different forms of feedback affect student achievement in Technology Education. ” **
 * Hypothesis **