Yacapaca is a gamified formative assessment system. I want to discuss briefly what that means, and how we interpret it in software.
Gamification is the art of making things you want to do anyway more fun, and more motivating. To understand why this is so powerful, I recommend this 12-minute TED talk by Seth Priebatsch because it is a lot more fun and motivating than the Continue reading
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Time progression
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Block of time | Single assignment | |
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Individual student
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5. Evidence
6. Parent reports
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Gradebook averages*
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Gradebook* Activity log* Detail* |
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Student Set
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7. Progress chart
8. Progression with metadata
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4. Progress in topics
2. Quiz analysis
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1. Gap Analysis
2. Quiz analysis
3. Analysis whiteboard
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9. Pivot Chart (beta) does not quite fit in this table.
*strictly speaking these are Continue reading
How to add, remove and move students to and from your student sets.
A pros and cons list for quiz authors. Continue reading
