Online Homework

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Online Homework Tony Badella

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Homework: Love it? Or Leave it? The Homework Debate-What some researchers and experts are saying.. •  •  •  •  • 

Special Topic / The Case for and against homework Robert J. Marzano & Debra J. Pickering (March 2007) What research says about the value of Homework: Research Review Center of Public Education (Feb 2007) What research says about the value of Homework: At a Glance Center of Public Education (Feb 2007) The Homework Debate Johanna Sorrentino; www.education.com (July 2013), article based upon The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn Study: Homework doesn’t mean beter grades, but maybe better standardized test Scores Rebecca P. Arrington, Unviversity of Virginia (Feb. 2012) article based upon When is Homework worth the time? by Adam Maltese

The gist of it… •  Link between homework and achievement is unclear. •  Assign meaningful homework that reinforces desired outcomes. •  Grading, providing feedback and reviewing assigned materials give highest percentile gains •  Quality vs. Quantity to maximize the chances that a student will complete their homework.

The gist of it… •  Some evidence suggests there’s a positive correlation between homework and standardized test scores. •  Value your students time. •  Effects of parent involvement on homework is inconclusive.

Enough talk lets play! •  Go-to www.demo4.illuminatehc.com •  Use the username and password you received when you came in. •  Find the: Online Homework Demo IEUC 2016 •  Take the quiz (do the best you can, I’m trying to gather data) •  Analyze the data! •  Make data driven Decisions.

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Making the most out of your homework! Quantity vs. Quality? Question types? Ø  Core-Springs: expose your students to SBAC style technology enhanced questions. Graded for you! Question groups? Standard Alignment? Performance Bands? Actionable Data (Can share with students too!) Ø  Overview, Frequency Report Follow-up? RTI (Extend, Refresh, Reteach) Transparency for parents!

Set-up Options & Limitations Test Style

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Standard Itembank Test Creation

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Quick-Mode Itembank Test Creation

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Hybrid

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Exposes your kids to Rigorous CCSS & Standard Aligned Questions Access to Core Springs Technology enhanced questions. 16 different style questions-Only 2 types not auto-corrected (CR & DR) Direct Control over the questions you’re selecting. Can create your own items. Search Parameters “stick” across all standards

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Similar Pros to Standard Item Bank Creation, except it randomly pick questions. Ability to easily cross-reference other tests/ assignments to not get repeat questions. Can create an assignment very quickly if not overly picky.

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Import your own materials for online administration. Auto grades. (MC) and can be used with our reports to provide actionable data.

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Many of the itembank questions address the standards in their entirety; whereas we may be teaching only a certain piece. You have to peruse the questions. Core Springs can not be given as a hard copy. Creating own items can be a tedious endeavor.

Does not work well with passages. May have to regenerate questions multiple times. Search parameters must be set for each standard individually. Limited to MC and CR, currently no equation editor. You have to link the standards Cannot randomize answers Clever Manipulation maybe required

Quick Walk-through on Standard, Quick and Hybrid Online Home-work Creation Log onto you Illuminate account, and let’s build some together. Ø  Key Pieces: •  Quality vs. Quantity. •  Question Groups. •  Performance Bands. •  Online Roster Set-up. •  Know your audience.

User Tips

From my experience here are some things to remember and prepare for: •  Kids will “forget” their usernames and passwords initially or magically. Do you know how to manage their portal access? • 

Initially Students will struggle finding the home connection portalà yourdistrict.illuminatehc.com à have something for them to take home with this info & username/password

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Communicate with parents that you’ll be assigning online homework and if they have online access at home. Assure parents that their child will have access to a hard copy of the assignment if they don’t. (Also how to track their kids.)

User Tips From my experience here are some things to remember and prepare for: •  Be ready for a lot of teachable moments on the technology enhanced items (younger kids specifically), so preview the assignment and think like a kid. • 

Have some extra hard copies always prepared.

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Share the data with them, they’ll love it!

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