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Gathering Information About Students
Reaching and Engaging All Learners through Technology
Jacqueline Ellis – A00180222
Jacqueline.ellis2@waldenu.edu
November 15, 2010
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Gathering Information about Students
Interest Survey:
The link I chose from various searches is one that is not only appropriate for my
students’ age group (6th grade), but also for their location. The same questions should not
be used for urban living students than for other locations and vice versus. It studies
general student interests in and outside of school, but also tracks students’ family
information. Such a survey provides information in the event the student needs help in
various areas of school and also acts as a preemptive strike against the “I hate school”
excuses. The survey also includes space for writing, rather than just checking information
off, and also a drawing area, so as to include the various levels and differences among
students.
http://faculty.citadel.edu/hewett/web_files/interest_inventory_and_background_informati
on.html
Learning Style Survey:
Edutopia.com provides a learning style survey that is very quick, and unlike other
surveys not completely obvious about the learning styles your response would influence.
The rating scale allows students some leeway for their preference with the scale going
from “none” to “all the time.” At the end, the website automatically calculates your
personal result with percentages in a bar graph and provides links to educate people on
the various types of intelligences and their strengths. The survey seems to be applicable
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to middle school students all the way up to adults as the questions are broad, yet easy to
understand.
http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz
Multiple Intelligences Survey:
The online survey indicates the percentage of the person’s preference for each learning
style/intelligence. This link is more comprehensive due to it’s inclusion of the eight
intelligences where many surveys do not include all of the multiple intelligences. The
questionnaire allows people to choose as many of the options as is relevant to their
personalities. The survey is convenient as it can also be automatically graded for instant
results. This can be used for middle school students as well as older students and adults.
http://www.jaconline.com.au/sosealive/home/mitest.swf
Learning Style Profile:
This learning profile tool puts together an individuals learning styles through various
questions that the respondent uses an “a lot like me” to “not at all like me” scale to
answer. This particular online survey is unique in that it shows the respondent the
immediate effects of their responses; as soon as a question is answered the bar graph to
the right changes. The results can be emailed, a teacher can easily send all results to their
own computer and have them on file. This style profile could be used in middle school
through college classes.
http://www.acceleratedlearning.com/method/test_your_style.html
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My Personal Survey Link:
<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QRX96VS">Click here to take survey</a>
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Resources:
Tomlinson, C. (2008). Learning to love assessment. Educational Leadership, 65(4), 8–13.
Retrieved from Academic Search Pre Evaluation. Premier database
Assignment
Grade
A = 4.00
A- = 3.75
B+ = 3.50
B = 3.00
B- = 2.75
Assignment exceeds All parts of the
assignment are
Adherence to expectations,
completed, with
Assignment
fully developed
Expectations integrating
additional material topics.
and/or information.
Demonstrates the
Demonstrates a
Assimilation ability intellectually clear
understanding of
and Synthesis to explore and/or
implement
key
the assignment’s
of Ideas
instructional
purpose.
concepts.
Represents
Work is well
scholarly writing in organized with
Written
a correct APA
correct APA
Expression
format.
formatting
and
throughout.
Formatting
.
C+ = 2.50
F = 1.00
C = 2.00
C- = 1.75
Most parts of
assignment are
completed.
Does not fulfill the
expectations of the
assignment.
Shows some degree
of understanding of
the assignment’s
purpose.
Shows a lack of
understanding of
the assignment’s
purpose.
Somewhat
represents mature,
scholarly, graduatelevel writing, with
APA generally
followed.
The quality of
writing and/or APA
formatting are not
acceptable for
graduate level work.