What is a digital literacy assessment?

What is a digital literacy assessment?

The Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment is a group of standards-based interactive assessment modules that measure adult digital literacy skills at a basic level. Each assessment moves the learner up a level in their digital literacy skills. The lessons are simple and easy to understand and navigate.

How do you assess literacy skills?

Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) – Using CBM, which directly and repeatedly assesses targeted skills or content, you can identify your students’ abilities in reading fluency, comprehension, and reading words per minute (RWM).

How do you assess digital learning?

There are several approaches for evaluating students:

1. Online quizzes.
2. Essay questions.
3. Drag-and-drop activities.
4. Online interviews.
5. Dialogue simulations.
6. Online polls.
7. Game-type activities.
8. Peer evaluation and review.

How do you prepare for a literacy assessment?

Read, Read, Read! Novels, magazines, news articles, and even social media posts are all prime reading material to use in preparation for the literacy assessment. While your student reads through their material of choice, encourage them to make meaningful notes on a scrap piece of paper.

How to evaluate your digital literacy program?

Don’t Do It Alone. Digital literacy encompasses four main areas: tech skills,authorship rules,evaluation of information,and online social responsibility.

Go to the Standards. ISTE publishes a set of standards for students that you can use to develop digital literacy assessments in your classroom.

Rubrics.

Build Assessment In.

Don’t Recreate the Wheel.

What are the elements of digital literacy?

Digital literacy is the set of competencies required for full participation in a knowledge society. It includes knowledge, skills, and behaviors involving the effective use of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs for purposes of communication, expression, collaboration, and advocacy.

What do we mean by digital literacy?

Digital literacy is a set of skills that includes the ability to use digital technology to find information and to critically evaluate that information’s authority and relevance. Effective communication with others through digital mediums is also an important component of digital literacy.

What does digital literacy mean to me?

Digital literacy. Digital literacy is the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies. It requires one “to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms”.