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This document is a reflection on the lessons I gave to my students while taking the course, Google Classroom Made Easy! It is evidence because it shows my thoughts on what worked and what didn't work when delivering the lessons. It is evidence of the lesson I believe to be the most beneficial to my students which was the quiz lesson. I explain why I believe it was beneficial and how Google Classroom made it easier to provide feedback and analyze data.
Module 3 Reflection:
I think all of the lessons were beneficial for me and my students, but I think the lesson that was the most beneficial was the quiz lesson. This lesson was beneficial because it gave the students and I immediate feedback, it helped me save time, and it provided me with data to help improve the quiz for the future.
Using a quiz in Google Classroom, through Google Forms, allowed me to see how much of the lesson the students understood individually and as whole classes. It also allowed me to see which questions might be outliers or perhaps written poorly. It was also beneficial because it gave immediate feedback to the students on which questions they got correct and ones they got incorrect.
This was the first time I created a quiz in Google Classroom so I was unfamiliar with the settings. One thing I will do differently is to have the quiz share the emails of the students once they complete the quiz or have the students put in their name as the first question. I didn't do that this time so I could only analyze the results as a whole group, not individually, because I didn't have their names. I also didn't allow the students to go back in and edit their quiz. If I did allow this I was unsure if I would have the results from their first quiz. These are things that I will become more comfortable with doing once I begin to use more quizzes in Google Classroom.
One of the biggest benefits of using the create a quiz option in Google Classroom is that it does allow me to more efficiently use my time. Rather than spending time grading each individual quiz, I can spend more time analyzing the data that the quizzes provide in Google Sheets. I was able to look for which questions might have been poorly worded, or which questions might have been too obvious. It also shows which part of the lesson I can go over more and explain so that the students can better understand the information.
It was nice to have all of the quizzes in one place and a sheet of data once the students were all completed. I didn't have any complaints or questions from the students on how to access the quiz or how to complete it. Overall I was very impressed with how easy creating a quiz on Google Classroom was, and I plan to use this tool much more frequently in the upcoming year of teaching.