Session Objective: Discover formative assessment tools that can be used in the classroom to provide timely and useful feedback.
ISTE Standard: Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments (ISTE Standards)
Quick Look at Formative Assessments
Formative assessments can be very powerful tools. It is important to keep a few things in mind when creating and using these types of assessments. Formative assessments should be viewed as part of the instruction process and not part of the grading process. Think of these as "checks for understanding". The feedback from these assessments should help guide where you are going, not necessarily where you want to end up. Another important component of these types of assessments is the idea of timely-feedback. If you can find out, almost immediately, what your students are struggling with you can reteach sooner. Things that are retaught directly after confusion will prove to be much more effective. Lastly, visual feedback can be very effective with students. Providing a graph, chart or image for results can catch the attention of many students that otherwise may not be interested in the feedback. Educators have been using formative assessments for a very long time but technology is helping provide more timely and engaging feedback to students and teachers.
Quizizz
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Socrative
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Google Forms with Flubaroo
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Other Options
Here are a few other options for gathering information from your students. Padlet and Todays Meet give each student a voice and allows for written comments instead of answering objective questions. Poll Anywhere is a polling option that has multiple uses.
Padlet
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Todays Meet
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