iNacol, the International Association for Online Learning, publishes Standards for Quality Online Teaching.

Standard D: The online teacher promotes student success through clear expectations, prompt responses, and regular feedback.

Standard G: The online teacher demonstrates competencies in creating and implementing assessments in online learning environments in ways that ensure validity and reliability of the instruments and procedures.

Standard H: The online teacher develops and delivers assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assesses learning progress by measuring student achievement of the learning goals.

Standard I: The online teacher demonstrates competency in using data from assessments and other data sources to modify content and to guide student learning.

The Evaluate module taught me how to combine a number of diverse evaluation methods to promote active learning and mastery of skills. It broke down the importance of data and data analysis in today’s classrooms and how to use a variety of data source to make informed decisions regarding curricula, student performance, and overall achievement.

The Evaluate module taught me how to promote student success through clear expectations, prompt responses, and regular feedback (Standard D) as shown in the following post: http://andreajahall.edublogs.org/2017/05/31/evaluate-1-quality-feedback/.

It also taught me how to demonstrate competencies in creating and implementing assessments in online learning environments in ways that ensure validity and reliability of the instruments and procedures (Standard G) as shown in the following two posts:

• http://andreajahall.edublogs.org/2017/06/02/evaluate-2-competencies/
• http://andreajahall.edublogs.org/2017/05/31/evaluate-1-the-summative-assessments/

I learned how to develop and deliver assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assesses learning progress by measuring student achievement of the learning goals (Standard H) as illustrated in this lesson: http://andreajahall.edublogs.org/2017/05/31/evaluate-1-the-summative-assessments/ .

Finally, I was able to demonstrate competency in using data from assessments and other data sources to modify content and to guide student learning (Standard I) as shown in the following post: http://andreajahall.edublogs.org/2017/06/02/evaluate-3-personalized-teaching-and-learning/ .

The lessons which I found that were most beneficial to me was the lessons on Personalized Teaching and Learning.  I never thought of having posts show up for students based on their score on a particular assessment.  I definitely plan to implement that strategy in my teaching.

Some strategies I will take away from the Evaluate module include: customized posts based on student performance on assessments/assignments, I will continue the practice of self-reflection and finally, using the various data strategies to monitor student performance and make adjustments to my teaching when necessary.