e-scape scotland:

Susan V. McLarenUniversity of Edinburgh

e-solutions for creative assessment in portfolio environments

e-scape scotland

to develop effective sustainable formative assessment by incorporating aspects of teacher, self and peer assessment with

a view to aiding progression.March 2009-March 2010

capturing creative thinking in real time for authentic formative assessment

Problem

overworked retrospective recording of ideas - on paper-

doing what learner thinks tutor wants to see and read

not very authentic not very useful for formative

assessment focus on product folio becomes a product too

Objectives

• To trial and appraise the opportunities e-scape approach offers for supporting Assessment for , as and of Learning (AifL).

• To capture learner performance for recognising achievement and provide a range of evidence through various modes of expression/ flexibility and choice.

• To provide proof of the e-scape concept in the learning and assessing process

• To contribute to modes of formative (and summative) assessment within the principles and purposes of CfE.

• To collect evidence that will provide data to inform and support in terms of progression and transition.

design of activities / design challenges

developed in conjunction with the teachers develop the CfE purposes& principles, CfE

Technologies & CfE Literacy.

specific phases and stages are signposted in the activity for peer, self and for teacher feedback.

range of tasks - engage learners in next steps, decisions, review, reflection, feedback

teacher to view/ hear and further prompt or confirm or suggest (feedback/feedforward) using a range of digital approaches.

Introducing the authoring tools & flipspins

Assessment is for learning

teacher & learner at heart of assessment

personalised learning information for teacher to manage

Touch screen

Camera can spin round

microphone

Works with e-scape on a stick too

Built for schools

Only 40 in UK when e-scape scotland started

Authoring e-scape scotland activities

• flexible mode• various durations• number of sessions in

series• Up-cycling• Inventors of Tomorrow• Spatula • Time : Clock Design x 2• Celebration : Trophy• Portable Lighting Device

familiarisation task: teachers adopted a short and ‘strict mode’/fix-time structure, ‘Bow-tie for teacher’ activity.

Teacher & researcher CPD

CPD workshop – • pedagogy ideas; • familiarisation with flipspins;• authoring activities;• incorporating AifL;

escapelaptop router

Author activity assign activity

to class membersupload to

EMS laptop

e-scapelaptop router

flipspins

Authored, assigned e-escape to class

uploaded to EMS laptop

Send activity info, prompts, Instructions for actions… incl. access to take photo, make video,make voice file, draw, write,comment on peers, mind map tool

‘And the winner is…’

What does this look like in classrooms?

What does it look like in classrooms?

AifL authored in as prompts

CDT workshops

Housekeeping and management: problems and solutions

escapelaptop router

flipspins

Authored, assigned e-escape to class

uploaded to EMS laptop

Teacher adds comment for learner

Tap & read/hear teacher comment

Sample of e-scape learner folio

Teacher comment

Learner reflection comment

Feedback for learner

You have 1 comment to view×

Date: Wed 11th Nov 2009, 21:14:10" How do you propose to make it more comfortable? Altering shape? Altering size? You may want to also consider how easy the current shape is to clean – especially where the handle joins on to the blade. "

Date: Wed 11th Nov 2009, 22:29:02" This adaptation increases the width of the handle. Looking at it make me

think of handles on a variety of things in my kitchen. Are there any from your own kitchen that might

inspire you? "

i learned u should change change and change ur model

Feedback from teacher:

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Feedback from teacher: Date: Wed 11th Nov 2009, 22:05:37" Have a look at where the blade and handle come together.

Could this area be changed to make it easier to clean and make the design stronger? Will the smile affect the strength of the blade? Try bending the model at that point to find out. "

Feedback from peers

Sound files Still images

Movie files

learner review post-its

Teacher feedback

Portable lighting device

Sept ’09 review meeting: Specifics re. AifL

Strategies and evidence

What are we looking for? analysis skills; decision making and justification; imagination/ innovation/ creativity in ideas; ability to communicate fuzzy ideas develop ideas through synthesis and iteration; keep scenario and task in focus; define requirements; support to others; and peer evaluation; critical thinking in response to prompting; literacy & numeracy set personal learning targets self evaluation reflection on learning,

performance & outcome;

Initial Teacher responses

learned they can be great aid to learning fun exciting way to learn question own assessment strategies am thinking more about alternative

assessment and feedback methods different ways pupils learn project should help widen my perspective

on teaching / learning allow pupils/ provide pupils with contexts

and tools to enable them to thrive and show their ideas and creativity

how can I embed this, rather than use as standalone projects?

What the learners thought

What the learners thought….

I think it was useful being able to see other people's ideas to give me ideas.

Useful to give feedback to self?

I thand the fisby good bcos the ritig I con wiccm sup I

wed hel my bcos I am dslecsic.

I fawnd it grat but the glis is mad it bad!!!

I thought the flipspin was good because the writing icon comes up would help

me because I am dyslexic.I found it great but the glitches made it

bad!

I thought it was a waste of time because we already new that our stuff was all

correct.

Not really because you already know what you

think.

I think is was great that you saw your work all the way

through the weeks from start to finish it looked amazing seeing what my clock was

before i had done anything to it and then when i finished it

looked great

I found it funny to see what you had at the start and then see what you had at the end.

It wos good because you coud se wot you done good and bad.

The best bit about using the fizz-book spins was that you could see

other peoples idea and put comments. it was helpful to see what people thought of our idea.

I thought it was fun and great. It also aided making the torches by being able to organise your work into areas.

In their own words…. I like the camera, voice recorder and that you can

take videos the best because you don't have to type anything which makes it easier and you can show your model in a picture or video so people can see what it looks like.

I liked taking pictures and recording your voice because it helped you change your design along the way and also you could and if you forgot what you wanted to change you could go back and see what you said.

One thing i enjoyed best was reviewing i enjoyed typing up what i thought of my idea and seeing what my class mates thought to of my idea.

You could have a quick timeline view of all the things you had done in

this project. also this also meant that it was much harder to lose anything

I liked doing this (feedback to peer) as I

feel it gave them a younger persons view.

I liked the bit where we got

feedback from our classmates as it gave us a 3rd

degree apart from the teacher.

the thing i liked best was taking the pictures of different stages in my design instead of having to draw all my ideas out or write about them. it saved a lot of time.

I think the feedback from the teacher was good as it was always there once you were finished, you didn’t have to wait for the teacher

to walk around the room.

Learner response

It was easy as we were on computers and we could

upload pictures and make it look better than it would

have looked if I had drawn it myself.

fizz book are good for writing notes and taking pictures of inspirations. But they aren’t good for

drawing, where your own hand is better.

It was made easy by the fizzbooks that you

wouldn’t have to take pictures from a camera and send it to a laptop then look at it it was

just there

I think that if the server connection was better the

fizzbooks would be the perfect companion to any

craft and design pupil.

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I think the pda's are really good and the work was fun. They are just like mini computers and so they are familiar and quite easy to use. It takes a little bit of getting used to (obviously) but i think they

are really good !!! I enjoyed making movies, recording my voice and taking pictures. The hard thing is just trying to hear instructions with all the

noise even though I'm partly responsible!!

The computers had some problems but it was still fun

I liked the freedom we got with them, we didn’t have to wait for every one in the

class. Like if we finished one box we could move on ahead.

Teachers Recommendations to LTS & SQAProject Continuation benefit from their investment to date/access to the authoring tools and existing. further funding needs to be sourced e.g. for sub to MAPS 3

Audio as a method of assessing

Share the activities as CfE good practice LIT& TECHexamples of collaboration, self and peer evaluation, multi modal expression capture of thinking; creativity, flexibility and choice in operation; using ICT to enhance learning;

Illustrations from sound &text & video

CPD opportunities to support teachers in their development of AifL. What is

evidenced in e-scape folios and what is not be ought to be and how this might be achieved.

The development / redesign of interface – authoring tool and at point of use by learner. [ for TAGdevelopments]

Sample – from web?

http://escape.maps-ict.com/exec/login/develop/