MODULE 4: ASSESSMENTS WITH AI
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Before starting this last module of the specialization course, I had a clear definition of the types of assessments that should be carried out in the teaching and learning process, which are diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments. However, I later discovered that formative assessment cannot be evaluated, as it is used to monitor student performance and provide them with feedback on their learning process. On the other hand, summative assessment can be graded by taking into account activities such as essays, pop quizzes, and role-playing activities based on students' communication skills. Therefore, I was very curious about how AI would be used to effectively create different assessments for students. In developing this module, I discovered Magic School, which is one of the best AI tools for creating teaching materials such as rubrics, instructional materials, written feedback, etc.
In addition, I was impressed by the Brisk extension's effectiveness in generating rubrics and providing effective feedback depending on the work to be evaluated. On the other hand, I learned how to create ‘practice sets’ in Google Classroom on any topic, whether it be grammatical structures, vocabulary, or any other topic covered in class, to assess how much my students have learned. Besides, I learned how to create interactive videos on the same platform, which will help me provide a more enriching learning experience for all my future students. Furthermore, at first I thought that Quizalize was similar to Quizizz, which allows you to create interactive quizzes, but I did not know how to create them using AI. It turned out that I loved Quizalize because it is one of the best AI tools for creating instant quizzes on any topic and has unlimited use, which is amazing for us as teachers. This specialization course has felt like a manual for exploring and learning how to take advantage of these incredible and useful tools that AI offers us to become innovative teachers of the 21st century.
BRISK
I definitely think Brisk is a tool that every teacher should have on hand as one of their best and most reliable virtual assistants. When I heard the name ‘Brisk’, I thought it would be a more complex AI to use, but in the end, it turned out to be a very powerful extension with a user-friendly interface that helps us create lesson plans, quizzes, rubrics, syllabus, progress reports, presentations, even podcasts, etc. One very important feature of this tool is that it helps us provide feedback according to our own rubric criteria, avoiding bias towards anyone. Therefore, the ‘Rubric Criteria’ option allows me to evaluate, for example, an essay according to the guidelines I have set out in advance for such activities and according to my students' level. In addition, it helps me create feedback with the ‘Glows & Grows’ feature, which shows strengths and weaknesses and suggestions for improving the quality of students' work.
This tool challenged my perspective on how we provide feedback to our students efficiently because people might think that by using Brisk, the process is automatic and nothing else needs to be done. Nonetheless, we must remember that AI is only an assistant that helps us work more efficiently and does not give us the final product, so we must always review the content generated by AI and decide what we want and whether changes need to be made to improve it on our own. Consequently, I will undoubtedly use Brisk to create rubrics for my future student assessments and also to help me better manage and save time with feedback on those assessments, always being precise and very detailed about what I need in my prompt.
Quiz - Past Perfect Tense:
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Present Progressive Tense presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ev2UwOw30bryr3tS5At3kmwd69zP0H5eVVrsMywH9pY/edit?usp=sharing
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Magic School
Magic School has become my ideal AI companion for teaching English, and it complements Brisk perfectly, as I now have many tools I can use to generate educational content regardless of the topic I am developing with my students. I had high expectations for Magic School, and the word “Magic” gave me a hint that it would be an excellent tool to help me develop my teaching skills. Therefore, my favorite features of Magic School are “Chat with Raina,” which is an excellent AI chatbox for educators that helps me answer any questions related to best teaching practices, ideas for my classroom, research on good teaching practices, or any general advice. I was also fascinated by the “Presentation Generator” feature, as I can create a presentation on any topic in seconds, and the “Rubric Generator,” which helps me generate rubrics according to student levels and academic guidelines, saving me valuable time. In addition, the ‘Worksheet Generator’, ‘Vocabulary list generator’ and ‘Rubric Generator’ features were my favorites, although there are many more, such as ‘Song Generator’ and ‘Multiple choice Quiz’, which I find very interesting and useful for summative and formative assessments.
This tool challenged my previous thinking about how AI can help me solve many problems in creating study materials from scratch. Hence, I was undoubtedly impressed by the variety of features that this amazing tool offers, which I did not know I needed, but from now on, these and many more will be extremely useful in my teaching process. Consequently, I will use these incredible features that Magic School offers me in the development of my future classes, not only to generate presentations, rubrics, or surprise multiple-choice tests for a specific activity, but also to take advantage of other features such as “Quote of the Day” or “Multi-step Assignment” to get the most out of AI, always reviewing the content generated by it.
Presentation generated using Magic School:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ArbJNUsU5NwRYNxw25mxv6hS40UoaYUa-9KV5INU7ZE/edit?usp=sharing
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Role Play Rubric
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PRACTICE SETS AND INTERACTIVE YOUTUBE VIDEO ACTIVITIES USING GOOGLE CLASSROOM
Practice sets challenged me in my manual method of creating exercises such as exams and pop quizzes, as in this case it makes it easier for me to create and assign these exercises. In addition, I have control over my students' progress in the palm of my hand, as Google Classroom provides me with a database of students who completed or did not complete the activity and their performance in it. For example, a green color appears on each question if the students answered correctly, and if a pale green color appears, it shows that they did not answer correctly the first time. As a result, I can easily assign a grade to each student according to their performance in a more orderly and straightforward manner.
Additionally, I found interactive video activities to be essential for students to practice their listening and comprehension skills. Therefore, I was able to successfully create an interactive video exercise about a conversation in the passive voice, in which students must watch and listen carefully to the video and answer four multiple-choice questions that appear throughout the video about the conversation in the passive voice. This activity also provides me with information about each student's performance in the activity, as in the guided exercises. This practice challenged my creativity in formulating questions about a video, as I was able to plan them better and decide what type of questions to use, such as open-ended, multiple choice, or true or false.
Finally, I plan to implement these types of activities in my future teaching practice, using Google Classroom's “practice sets” tools to assess my students as if it were a pop quiz on a specific topic. In addition, I will use YouTube's interactive video option so that my students can practice their listening skills and review certain grammar topics that they may find difficult, combining this with practice sets so that they can reinforce their learning.
GEMINI FOR RUBRICS MIXED WITH BRISK TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS
Using Gemini to create rubrics surprised me, as the teacher taught us a new way to create them to evaluate any activity based on the academic guidelines we establish from the outset. Therefore, I found it to be a very viable option if we want to create a rubric from scratch using this prompt, for example, in our trusted AI Gemini: ‘You are an expert in English composition with more than 20 years of experience in the field. Please write a rubric to grade students' essays on any topic. Include at least 10 criteria. Write very detailed descriptors per achievement level. Include 4 achievement levels: the lowest must be 1 point, the second one 4 points, the third one 7 points, and the highest 10 points’. In addition, I can delete or make any improvements to my rubric; for example, delete any unnecessary steps that I do not want to include in the table or specify the value of each level of achievement for the activity. Then I was struck by how we combined the Brisk tool. Brisk provided instant feedback as it can easily analyze the essay we are showing in Google Docs, taking into account the rubric created and reviewed that is attached in the ‘Rubric’ section of Brisk.
These tools challenged my traditional methods of providing feedback on my students' summative assessments. Therefore, I have now enriched my knowledge in finding new ways to leverage Gemini and Brisk as important allies in my teaching, maximizing efficiency in the learning process. Consequently, I am sure that I will use these tools together to get the most out of them in my classes, for example, creating rubrics to evaluate my students' role-playing games, journals, or essays. Moreover, I will use Brisk to help me provide feedback based on the rubrics I create in Gemini and the activity I need to evaluate, always keeping in mind that I must carefully review each aspect of them on my own in order to improve them and avoid mistakes.
Creative Writing Rubric:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RF_aF6iM2u71AiE6-CXocnyPtk27iex9JdL9SgWau_Y/edit?usp=sharing
This rubric was created using Gemini AI.
QUIZALIZE
Quizalize has been one of the best discoveries about AI that I have made thanks to this specialization course, as I was surprised by its versatility in helping us generate any type of quiz, regardless of the topic we want. In addition, it allows us to choose which questions we want to add to our quiz and how many questions we want for it. Notwithstanding, I thought that AI limited the generation of quizzes, but fortunately, this amazing tool gives us unlimited use for creating our quizzes, which I think is incredible for us as teachers. In addition, this AI allows us to export our quizzes in Google Forms or Quizizz (now called Wayground) formats, or simply print our quiz. On the other hand, while exploring the tool, I realized that there are many assessments on topics ranging from beginner to advanced university level, which makes it more interesting since I can take into account any assessment that has already been done and that I find closely related to the topics of my classes.
Quizalize challenges my approach to creating automatic questions on a given topic and being more precise with them, reminding me once again that the final work will not be delivered to me by AI, and that I must review every aspect of the questions before creating any sort of evaluation. In the future, I will use Quizalize to create quizzes on grammar topics or reading comprehension, and I will import them into Google Forms, Kahoot, and Wayground to vary the ways in which my students take their assessments. In addition, I can take into account the questions generated and reviewed in Quizalize and use them to create practice sets in my Google Classroom to maximize my time in creating these assessments.
The Future Perfect Progresive Tense
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Before starting this module, I thought I knew all about assessments in the classroom; nevertheless, I soon realized that there was a whole world of possibilities I had not explored, especially with the help of AI. Besides, I learned that formative assessment is not about grading, but about guiding students and giving them useful feedback to help them learn. The tools I discovered, like Brisk and Magic School, opened my eyes to how I can give more detailed feedback and create materials more efficiently than ever before. This specialization course has truly been a game changer, showing me how to be a more innovative and effective teacher.
Furthermore, the knowledge I have gained will completely change my teaching methods since I have always created my materials from scratch, but now I know I can use AI as my personal assistant to save a lot of time and energy. Therefore, instead of spending hours creating a rubric or a quiz, I can use tools like Magic School or Quizalize to generate a solid draft in minutes so that I can polish it up according to my students' needs. This frees me up to focus on what is most important: working directly with my students and giving them the support they need. Moreiver, AI is not here to replace us; it is here to be our ultimate teaching assistant. Tools like Magic School and the Brisk extension have become my new best friends.
Also, I have also realized that when I combine tools, the results are even more powerful. For example, using Gemini to create a detailed rubric and then feeding that rubric into Brisk to generate instant, unbiased feedback for an essay is amazing. This approach challenges the traditional methods of giving feedback and ensures every student gets clear, specific guidance without me having to manually write it out every time.
Finally, I will apply these learnings in a creative writing lesson. Thus, I will have my students write a creative and short story. Then, I will use Magic School to generate a vocabulary list and a graphic organizer to brainstorm their ideas. Instead of using a basic grading sheet, I will use Gemini to create a detailed rubric tailored to the specific goals of the assignment, like character development, plot structure, etc.
Also, once the students submit their work, I will use the Brisk extension to apply the Gemini created rubric and give them instant feedback, always checking the generated feeedback. This will include "Glows" what they did well and "Grows" areas for improvement, all while ensuring the feedback aligns with the rubric criteria. After, I will use Quizalize to create a quick grammar or punctuation quiz to reinforce the concepts students struggled with in their writing. Then, I can import this quiz into Google Classroom Practice Sets so that my students can get a more interactive review.
I consider that using AI in this way will not only save me time but also provide my students with a more detailed and consistent assessment experience. The key is to always remember that AI is a co-pilot, not the driver. I must always review and refine the content it generates to make sure it aligns with my teaching goals and the needs of my students.
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