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 * Welcome to Brian Foster's Technology Presentation Page! **
 * THE LIGHTNING GRADER **

**__Introduction Video __**

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__**Project Description **__ My goal for this project is to show how Lightning Grader can be used to create assessments, grade the assessments, and most importantly, analyze the results. This program has changed the way I track student growth. Not only is the program intuitive and feature rich, it is an extremely efficient way to assess student's strengths and weaknesses. As educators we all know that assessment data is important and should drive future instruction, but collecting that data can be very time consuming. I hope to show how this program can streamline that process and increase student achievement in the process!

__**Main Presentation Videos **__

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Assessment Reports Standards Alignment: //d. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.//
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 * 2.** **Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments**

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__**Additional Resources **__ - Lightning Grader Website - Lightning Grader Blog - Quick Start Sheet (PDF)

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Lightning Grader can be used by all subject areas to create, grade and analyze assessment data. I have personally seen math, language arts, science and social studies teachers use this program for tests, quizzes, pre-assessments, post-assessments as well for quarterly exams. The program offers the functionality of creating multiple choice and open-ended questions. Each question can be aligned to content standards in all subject areas as well. As mentioned above, Lightning Grader is and efficient method of collecting all types of assessment data. One of the most beneficial features of this program is how quick you can receive assessment results and provide feedback to the students; timeliness is important! By assessing prior to a unit, the teacher can identify content that will require little review/teaching as well as concepts that may require more time. Again, these results can be broken down by specific content standards. Most importantly, this program will help teachers easily track student achievement and provide intervention or enrichment opportunities based on individual results.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lightning Grader can be purchased by calling 1-888-570-5747 and speaking with a sales executive or you can visit the website and fill out a few quick fields and a sales executive will contact you about pricing information! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Purchase options that I'm aware of are $99/year per classroom, or you can purchase a program license and pay $2/student per year.
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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">There are several different reports that can be generated after an assessment is graded. These reports can be sorted by class, by student or by assessment. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The class standard report allows the teacher to sort class assessment results by standard. //// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This report allows the teacher to view a student's progress on each of the assessed standards. As opposed to the class standard report, which allows the teacher to view results for the entire class on ONE standard, this is an individualized report on ALL standards. Here is an //// with the specific standards typed out. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This report allows the teacher to look at a students achievement across every assessment in a specified period of time. This report also compares the student's scores against the class average. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This report provides individualized feedback with options for teacher comments and correct answers to be either hidden or visible. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This report is an excellent tool for reviewing answers for multiple choice questions as a whole class. A bar graph is shown with the results for each question on the assessment. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This report compares results of assessments with all other teachers who assigned the same assessment to their classes. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">8. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers are now able to assign assessments for students to take online. Prior to this update (late January, 2013), students could only take test via paper and pencil and those had to be scanned and uploaded to the Lightning Grader website. Now the results will automatically be in Lightning Grader based on a students log in information!
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