How to Assess the Arts & Crafts Students Remotely?

The main thing in this period of work at home is to ensure the progression of the students in mastering skills and abilities. The evaluation of distance learning offers many challenges to teachers during the confinement period. The teaching staff must take care to inform the students about their level of mastery of learning. This distance work implies a relationship of trust with the students because of the impossibility of controlling the conditions under which the individual work is carried out in a situation of confinement.

It is a complex process of gathering and interpreting information about the learner's learning and interpreting it in order to make a judgment and make the best possible decisions about the learner's level of learning and the quality of art & craft equipment & education. Here are some useful ideas to help teachers assess their students remotely:

 
Stop evaluating everything
The evaluation of learning requires an equally complex reflection with regard to performance criteria, the description of these and the manner of measuring this performance. It is not compulsory to evaluate all the work and all the students each time, on the other hand, it is necessary to propose a solution or elements of correction and sharing systematically; it is not appropriate to practice a demeaning rating or a sanction. The assessment of skills by mastery levels will be favored.

In addition, teachers must reduce the frequency of the work requested. It is best to give the student time to organize. In high school, it is possible to give work in limited time.

Teaching students to self-assess
Self-correcting exercises are useful for most students. The teacher can present on the establishment site, an educational blog, or a virtual wall, a selection of self-correcting tests with instructions allowing to know what will be used for each quiz, and targeted instructions to use them. Thus, he can ask students to do exercises in the textbook, providing the answers and indicating when to use them.

Assessment
It is very difficult to know if the pupils will do their checks alone or with a family member. We have to trust our students: most do the work seriously if it is interesting and if they understand the meaning.

 
Suggest complex new tasks by asking students to justify their answers.
Create mind maps to represent the theme being studied.
Case study: activities that present problematic situations to a group, which must find a solution.

Create an online portfolio.
Quizzes and multiple choice questions

The teacher can ask his students to take quizzes. Afterwards, students who have successfully completed the exercise must explain the expected answer or self-correcting even in picking art accessories. In this case, the student can then send the result of their self-correction for personalized feedback. This return is essential for the students, it will reassure them. It must be taken as such.

Orally Assess
Students should always be ready to explain their thoughts or ideas to their teacher. Indeed, conversations are one of the best ways to check for understanding, and this also applies to summative tasks. Students can make presentations or engage in an oral explanation or justification of their final product. This provides further evidence of student learning.

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