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Context:
Secondary School Setting (Pinetree Secondary in Coquitlam - SD43)
Two Science 10 classes - currently learning about Physics.
Both classes played the same game on Law of Conservation of Energy (pre-made game - available in Quizizz Library).
Both classes have practiced the Law of Conservation of Energy for at least 3 days (most students had a good understanding already).
The quiz was used as a formative assessment tool - Quiz link provided on the right 👉 👉 👉
When starting...
When starting...
You have options to begin the quiz as a student-paced or teacher-paced mode. Teacher-paced modes have more features such as anti-cheating mode, serious game mode, etc.!
The features you get during the game:
The features you get during the game:
During the game, you are provided with MANY features. You can annotate directly on the screen, spin the wheel to select a student to answer questions, open up a whiteboard for both students and yourself to collaborate. You can also activate "eye up front" feature, where students get a notification on their device to look up at the board. If you feel that student paced mode will work better, you can always switch up by clicking a single button.
Throughout the game, student performances are shown (Take a look at first row - middle picture. This is an example photo - you will have more than 1 participant if you are playing it with the whole class). This shows up on your screen, so be careful that you are not showing names.
The features that you get to see only after playing the game:
The features that you get to see only after playing the game:
After the game, you can access the quiz results in Reports section of your profile. It shows you all the participants and the questions they answered correctly, incorrectly, along with unattempted ones.
If you enabled the anti-cheating feature at the start, students who either left the screen, switched tabs, or used the right-click (for google searches) are flagged. You also get warnings during the quiz.
⭐ Strengths and Limitations ⭐
⭐ Strengths and Limitations ⭐
Strengths:
Students were super engaged. It made law of conservation - which can often be very dry for some students - more interactive.
It was very easy for me as a teacher to see who knew the concept, and who didn't.
The reports stay in your profile, and this became a great resource to check back on student progresses.
The anti-cheating feature is incredible! It allowed me to monitor student activity during the quiz.
There is an option to discuss after each question. This allowed me to explain the concept by utilizing the whiteboard feature, so I was able to show the calculation while explaining!
Limitations:
Some students reported they felt rushed to answer the question due to timer (student paced mode will be better for these students).
Calculations cannot be included - you cannot check if they got the process correct.
Some features were difficult to navigate.
A few students did not want to engage at all and ended up guessing the answers. Tricky to handle when the game is teacher-paced.
Overall: Great platform to lighten up calculation-heavy concepts and as formative checkpoints. Not suitable for summative assessments unless other pedagogies are accompanied.
Overall: Great platform to lighten up calculation-heavy concepts and as formative checkpoints. Not suitable for summative assessments unless other pedagogies are accompanied.
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