Formative Assessment
Here are some quick and easy (and sometimes fun) ways to get some information on student progress.
Poll Everywhere transforms one-sided presentations into two-way conversations with the audience. This web-based audience response system lets you embed interactive activities directly into your presentation. -Poll Everywhere
Numerous uses in the classroom make this a very versatile application to learn. You can create multiple choice, open ended questions, Q&A, or even use responses to create a word cloud. Great for attendance, formative assessment, or class discussions poll everywhere can get everyone involved.
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Forget clickers, teachers use their smart phone and printed student cards to scan student responses whole class. The data is collected and organized for the teachers to check for understanding and plan for the next lesson. No student devices needed!
Socrative is your classroom app for fun, effective classroom engagement. Quickly assess students with prepared activities or on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding. Then use auto-populated results to determine the best instructional approach to most effectively drive learning.
Kahoot! is a free game based learning platform that makes it fun to learn any subject in any language on any device! Create a fun learning game in minutes made from a series of multiple choice questions. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions to amplify engagement!
Quizizz: is an alternative to Kahoot, and there’s also a lot for educators to like. It is very similar to Kahoot, with a few key differences. Kahoot is designed (on purpose) to show multiple choice questions on a large screen, and students respond by clicking buttons on their devices that correspond to the answers they want to choose. Quizizz takes a different approach. No projector is necessary because players see questions and answer options on their own screens. The question order is randomized for each student, so it’s not easy for players to cheat. With Quizizz, players don’t have to wait for the whole class to answer a question before they continue to the next one.
Blog post about the differences between Quizizz and Kahoot!: Learningland.com
Formative is a Formative is an assessment tool where students can type, draw, or submit images to demonstrate their understanding. What differentiates this tool is that you can upload existing assignments from pdfs, Word, and Google Docs, and add interactive pieces to them. What it does mean is that much of your existing best lessons and resources can find new life in a digital format.
