SCHOOLS GO DIGITAL – MOBILE ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR STUDENTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

SCHOOLS GO DIGITAL – MOBILE ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR STUDENTS

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

CONTEXT
According to reliable statistics, nearly 52% of students have admitted checking their Smartphones before even getting out of their beds. They carry them around every day, as an integral part of their existence. They cannot imagine a world without smartphones. In this case, it is not difficult to understand that a school without mobile phones is actually unattractive to them and even their teachers.
With advancements in technologies, and students getting computer and mobile savvy, institutions want to transform teaching and learning in the classroom. The comfort of remote access to learning resources and doing it in one’s own space are influencing educators to effectively use online assessment tools to evaluate students and increase student success.
For all these reasons we have come together under this partnership. We are five schools across Europe, both vocational and general education who want to collaborate, to learn from each other about how to introduce such online tools in the learning process of students.

OBJECTIVES
The project aims to attain the following objectives:
– to promote the use of technology in education
– to enable teachers to apply innovative practices in the assessment of students
– to increase teachers’ and students’ confidence in using the mobile apps in the learning process
– to create the opportunity for teachers and students to interact and work together
– to gain / improve knowledge of mobile apps used for educational purposes
– to produce changes in the regular practices in each of the partner schools.

ACTIVITIES
We wish to organize 5 transnational events – one joint staff training event and 4 student exchanges. During the training event, all partners will present 2 mobile assessment apps. They will provide instructions and allocate time for the other teachers to practise using them. Overall, there will be 10 assessment tools presented and applied during this event. They also attend a practical course on the Flipped classroom method.
Next, in the student exchanges, based on the topic of the exchange, 2 partners conduct flipped lessons and provide assessment at the end of the lesson using one of the apps presented during LTTA1.
PARTICIPANTS
Students in the target group belong to the vocational or the general education branch of studies. Their age range is 16-17. They are both boys and girls, a heterogeneous group with high and low achievers alike. Some of them have average financial background, while others are at both ends of the cline. There are also students coming from disadvantaged groups.
The second group is that of teachers. Teachers who take part in the training event LTTA1 are teachers of English, Maths / Science and IT (12 teachers from sending institutions and 3 in the receiving institution). They will play a key role in the transfer of knowledge to teachers in the school who participate in the next exchanges. Also, teachers will accompany students in exchanges (an overall number of 32 teachers is targeted).

IMPACT
The project offers partners the chance to observe current practices in other European schools in terms of use of mobile technology, which they can transfer into their own school both through dissemination and by applying these aspects to their own teaching. Teachers will learn from each other in formal and informal contexts, will collaborate face-to-face and online, exchange ideas, practices etc. which will improve their flexibility in terms of approaches and methods. They will create lessons and use mobile apps for assessment purposes, which will increase their digital competence and confidence. As a result, the classes become more interactive, turning into a collaborative space, while students become more engaged in them. This can only improve the relationship between teachers and students and create a positive learning environment which benefits the entire school.

RESULTS
We aim to obtain students’ increased motivation, increased attractiveness and dynamics of classes, increased competence of teachers to use mobile apps in assessment and increased collaboration of students and teachers at European level, improved skills and competences such as communication, intercultural, interpersonal, critical thinking, problem-solving.
The outputs include the flipped lessons and assessment instruments used by the teachers in exchanges, students’ collaborative work, analysis about the current use of mobile technology in each school and a similar report produced at the end of the project, presentations of online apps by teachers in LTTA1, creative presentations of schools using online presentation tools, videos created by hosts during the exchanges, photos, feedback forms, initial and final evaluation results applied during exchanges, initial and final questionnaire applied in the partner schools on the target group.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135938 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “R. PIRIA” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• OZEL OGUZHAN OZKAYA FEN LISESI
• Colegiul Tehnic “General Gheorghe Magheru”
• OGRES TEHNIKUMS
• SOU Dobri Daskalov – Kavadarci