Team member reflections on the assignment

Margret's Reflection
This assignment faced a number of hurdles from the beginning. First, there was some misunderstanding as to what we were doing with the topic of “Assessment Centered Design.” Once we understood that this was our topic for the conference poster session, we needed to understand what “Assessment Centered Design.” The initial reading didn’t provide a clear overview. After doing some outside searching, we got a better definition and understood that this was not necessarily independent of the other learning environments. Next came the hurdle of understanding what a learning object is. It is still a bit unclear as to what the size and scope of a learning object should be but with the though that learning objects need to be reusable and adaptable to various situations, we opted to kept the learning object small. This however brought on the problem of whether the learning object was appropriate for the intended audience. With the audience being attendees of a conference on technology and higher education, the smaller scope that we had chosen seemed inadequate. We then struggled to broaden what we had to match our audience.

Margaret Ashlee’s Reflection
Once it was clear about what we will actually be creating – an overview of Assessment-Centered Design – we began to conduct research in this area. There were quite a number of resources available online through research databases. Having resources available online significantly reduced the number of hours we would have spent in searching for information. Most of the time spent was reading through content and deciding on information that should be considered to include in our project. I did further research on eportfolios and assessment. Again, there were a large number of resources available in this area. Much of the general information was discussed in several sources. From all the readings, I synthesized the information and put something together for my section in eportfolios and assessment.

Arnie’s Reflection
The initial process of figuring out what the meaning of “Assessment Centered Design” meant was a very important learning step for the group’s process of distinguishing how we were going to break up and analyze the different parts of assessing technology. Being familiar with assessment and technology I reviewed some of my previous research material that was gathered online using online databases. The ETEC website gave good examples of how to construct the poster presentation and format. The overall process was very educational and provided me a chance to review technology and assessment.