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On this page, you will find a description of some tech tools that can be used for formative assessment or giving formative feedback.
Formative assessments are opportunities for students to receive feedback on progress towards their learning goals. They can be anything from formal quizzes to a informal checks for understanding. In a Learning Focused lesson, your assessment prompts are your purposefully planned formative checks to check student progress towards answering your essential question.
Scroll through the page to see a description of each tool and a brief explanation.
What is Pear Deck?
What is Pear Deck?
PearDeck is an interactive presentation tool. Teachers embed interactive questions in Google Slides and track student responses in real time.
When should i use PearDeck?
When should i use PearDeck?
To get real-time formative feedback from all students during direct instruction
To ask students to reflect on their understanding
To easily share student responses with the class
what resources are available to me?
what resources are available to me?
What are kahoot, blooket, & quizlet live?
What are kahoot, blooket, & quizlet live?
Kahoot, Blooket, and Quizlet Live are web-based games you can play to review class material with your students.
When should i use a web-based game?
When should i use a web-based game?
To gather formative data on student understanding of lesson content and vocabulary
To check for understanding in an engaging way
When students understand the purpose of the game and can reflect on how their performance connects to their understanding of the material
what resources are available to me?
what resources are available to me?
What are the different types of schoology assignments?
What are the different types of schoology assignments?
Basic Assignment:
Students submit work by either clicking "submit assignment" and typing in the tab that says "create," or by attaching or importing an existing document
Google Drive Assignment:
The teacher attaches a copy of a Google Doc, Slides, or Sheet
The assignment automatically generates a copy for each student
From Schoology, teachers can view students' work while they are still in progress. This allows teachers to provide feedback before students submit.
Teachers can score Google Assignments on Schoology without needing to open the documents from their Google Drive
Kami Assignment:
The teacher attaches a copy of a Kami document
The assignment automatically generates a copy of the document for each student
Teachers can score Kami Assignments on Schoology without needing to open the documents in Kami
When should i use a Schoology Assignment?
When should i use a Schoology Assignment?
To score student work using a rubric
To provide formative feedback on student writing before students make submissions (using a Google Assignment)
To provide written or recorded feedback on submitted work
To sync formative grades to eSchool
what resources are available to me?
what resources are available to me?
What are Schoology test/quizzes and assessments?
What are Schoology test/quizzes and assessments?
Test/quizzes and assessments are Schoology's assessment tools that will automatically score questions with correct answers. "Test/quiz" was the original feature on Schoology; "assessment" is the new feature and contains more question types.
When should I use a test/quiz or assessment?
When should I use a test/quiz or assessment?
When you want a tool that will automatically score student responses.
When you want students to review correct and incorrect answers and make multiple submissions
When you want to sync formative grades to eSchool.
what resources are available to me?
what resources are available to me?
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