Digital vs. Hard-Copy Assessments
By: Craig Tusing
School districts and educators are constantly being asked to improve their district's technology, support, and increase their technology in classrooms. As an educator, technology has come a long way and is awesome to incorporate into the classroom and assignments. In education we are moving more and more into online settings, resources, and assessments. Technology is extremely beneficial and helpful in educating our students. Our State Tests are even going to an online version. However, not every school district has the same resources and technology available for their students to access and use. Both traditional and online education certainly require some discipline to succeed, but there can be significant differences in how learning is structured. Not every student has the knowledge and confidence to do the majority of their schoolwork and test in an online format.
The purpose of my research was to see if students performed better throughout a unit with hard copies, resources, and assessments, or digitally with online resources and assessments. The same class had two units I will do research over. One unit was all paper based and the other unit was all digital.
The approach utilized data to compare the same class, but in two different units in a high school Finance class. The research used a single group pretest-posttest design because the same students will be utilized for the study. The pretest and posttest allowed me to see how the students performed better by the different strategies used in each unit. I also looked at how students completed their week to week assignments. Those who participated in the study were students I see on a daily basis during my third period Finance
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