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Week 5 update:

Assessment using technology is the central piece of this week's reading. Assessment has to be fair, valid, and differentiated. Technology offers teachers a great deal of flexibility in terms of assessing students on different aspects of their academic work. The most important aspect of students achievement should be the effort. Educators should emphasize to their students the importance of effort, and teach them how to track their effort and achievement.

Using spreadsheets, students can create rubrics, charts, and graphs to track their effort and achievement. Consequently, they are able to see the correlation between their effort and their achievement. A graph is the perfect visual representation of student growth, and more importantly, the direct effect of effort on achievement, every student can see on a graph how their increased effort is accompanied with an increase in scores and how a decreased effort results in a decrease in scores.

Educating students about effort and achievement helps students who did not come into the classroom with the belief in the importance of effort to embrace that belief which results in higher achievement and student engagement in school.