Triangulating data to get to know your students is a critical piece to understanding the learning profiles in front of you in class.
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Google forms provides an accessbile way to not only assess student thinking but also outsources some of your classroom management in terms of organizing and analyszing the results.
Collecting information about particular students next moves? Take observations, reading check-ins, ongoing teacher and student feedback, learning skills next steps, can go directly to a document that's solely theirs. The "now-what" is gathered in one place for the student and their parent/guardian to see progress toward obtaining a goal.
Google Forms Powerful Sidekick sends data to Docs or an easy to create report rather than sheets.