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E-portfolios are great to assess students' work and allow for reflection, as they exhibit students' efforts, progress, and achievements.

Both teachers and students benefit from using rubrics. Rubrics let students know how they will be graded on an assignment, serving as a checklist of what students should include in their assignment. Rubrics also help teachers grade students' work, providing structure for which the teacher can use to determine if a student has met the requirements for an assignment. They are good to use for assignments that do not feature a straightforward answer, such as an essay or a project.

I like the idea of clickers--I like that they increase student interaction and participation, as they allow students who do not usually participate for fear of choosing the wrong answer actively engage in the classroom. However, I do not think I will use clickers in my classroom; instead, I will use individual dry erase boards. The teacher can have students write the answer to a question on their dry erase boards and after sufficient time, hold them up for the teacher to see. I think these are as beneficial as clickers but more convenient because, as a teacher, I would not have to worry if the dry erase boards work, unlike clickers, which are unpredictable.

A computer-scored tests allow students to record their responses on a "bubble" sheet that can be scored by a computer. I took a class where the teacher used scratch-off scantrons for tests. When an answer choice is scratched off, the space is either blank, meaning it is the wrong choice, or a check mark, meaning it is the correct answer. If a student initially chooses the wrong answer, he can scratch off the other choices to see the correct answer, possibly receiving partial credit if he reveals the correct answer on the second try. I like that this type of scantron allowed me to immediately know the correct answer to a question rather than having to wait a week or so for my scantron to be scored. With regular scantrons, by the time I get it back, I most likely have forgotten the material and am no longer interested to see the correct answers to the questions I missed.

Overall, I prefer paper-based tests to computer-based tests, as I can highlight important information, take notes, and cross out answer choices that I know to be incorrect. Furthermore, I can skip more difficult questions and return to them later.