Thursday, May 15, 2014

Frictionless Formative Assessment with Social Media

In a seminal experience sampling study (EMS), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi gave beepers to teenagers with instructions to write down what they were feeling and thinking whenever the devices went off. This simple technique, randomly checking in with students throughout the day, led to an epiphany about performance psychology, something Csikszentmihalyi defined as flow. Also a discovery about assessment was derived: 
Quick check-ins over time can reveal an extraordinary amount about an individual or collection of individuals. 

By Paige Alfonzo 

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