Assessing Learning Skills and Work Habits

Honestly 'marking' and evaluating the work habits and learning skills can be difficult to do properly at the secondary level (I have no idea what it is like at the elementary level, but this might be true there too). While doing a course recently, I had to do something about assessment through technology. So I had an idea, assess the learning skills and work habits!

Its just an idea, but I have included the rubric that I made for the assignment if it gives you ideas for making your own tool for this or just use the one here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B56ahhzE5dr7WHYzTXJVODctcFU/edit?usp=sharing

BT1 & Idevices - IIT Slideshow - Semester I Highlights & Semester II StartUp

As the new semester cranks up, new courses and students arrive ready to tear automotive systems apart.  Little did many of them realise that there is more to dismantling vehicles to successfully fulfill the course requirements; especially at the college coded level.  Ah bring on the maintenance schedules, the service manuals the resources and most importantly the diagnostics.

While looking through some of the videos and pictures we took during the initial project startup; it became very apparent that we focussed on individual student exposure, documenting their processes and technology use.  Highlighting the technology and analyzing the disconnect of thinking and self directed next steps; which service literature should the students refer to?; how do we successfully ensure that they are able to decipher the diagnostic trees and follow the steps?   Additional graphical literacy and further exposures to diagnostic trees is a must.  The acquisition of the DTCs and verification of the repairs is the easy part; fostering & modeling and redefining & shaping the required learning skills and employability skills to create self directed thinking pathway selection will be the next hurdle.

With that being said the new group of TTJ 3C students will be driven by a CDX Format coupled with Project/Task record Portfolio via Moxtra & Google; illustrating the steps and rationale for the chosen pathways as directed by diagnostic trees, DTC's and streaming data.  The BT1 and idevice technology is the gateway for the more diagnostic based CDX tasks/customer.  While still ensuring the students are fully exposed to the hard hands aspect of the trade.

                                           Refer to the following link for more CDX info

From the video request, we identified difficulties of providing student free content; however the observation does identify that we are approaching the project in a student driven and immersive manner.  There are not many photos and/or videos that do not contain identifiable students actively completing tech related tasks and using the IIT technology to diagnose and repair vehicle systems.

             There are several video shorts that have been uploaded to the shared video folder.
To aid in showcasing the process, the activities and the IIT technology we were however able to assemble several photos and create a YouTube video slideshow with annotations to aid in explaining and highlighting the technology.   This video has also been uploaded to the IIT Shared Video folder; HOWEVER the downloadable format does not allow the annotations.  So please refer to the following YouTube video link for a more encompassing video.  BT1 & Idevices - IIT Slide Show   View in full screen...

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