Assessment

Formative

Formative was purchased to give us a much more robust assessment tool than what Gradecam offers. We will be using Gradecam in the coming year, but plan to replace it completely with GoFormative in the years after.

🔴 VIDEO: Quick Overview

🔴 VIDEO: How students can submit photos of their work

🔴 VIDEO: Getting started...how Formative Works (this video focuses on the free features, but we have access to ALL premium features!)

🔴 VIDEO: How to upload a PDF worksheet and make it fillable for your students

🔴 VIDEO: How to manage matching activities on a PDF assessment

🔴 VIDEO: How to push a Formative assessment to your Google Classroom

🔵 RESOURCE: How to configure the default settings for all of your new assignments

🔵 RESOURCE: Click HERE to grab of a folder with step-by-step instructions for embedding Desmos and Geogebra activities, Wakelet collections, Padlet boards, Flipgrid grids, Buncee and Nearpod presentations, Quizlet flashcards… and more! Or search “Embed” in the Library.

Google Forms

Google Forms is a great (and free) way to create self-grading quizzes. Google Forms will grade all objective questions, and then you can go into the Responses tab to grade all of the subjective or extended response questions.

PRO TIP: It is important to realize that Forms can grade short answer questions, but it is a highly imperfect process. If, for example, you create a question that asks what is the capital of Argentina, and set it up for short answer, you will have to tell Forms which answers are correct. In order to do this with the least amount of re-grading possible, you'll have to list all of the ways you think your students might answer - Buenos Aires, buenos aires, buenos airs, Bueno Aires, etc. If your student types in a response that has even one letter different from the options you listed (or they capitalize something you do not) Forms will count it incorrect, and you will have to manually review all student responses to tidy up any grading issues!

🔴 VIDEO: How to create a basic quiz in Forms

🔴 VIDEO: Understanding 10 Ways that Students Cheat on Google Forms Quizzes (first 9 minutes shows ways to cheat, the rest of the video walks you through how to make your Google Quizzes more 'cheat proof.' Suggestions: 1) Shuffle 'option order' on each question, 2) use 'response validation' to create a password that is required before a student can actually open the quiz, 3) ask better questions (not simple recall)

🔴 VIDEO: How to customize the default point value and other settings in all of your Forms to save time

🔴 VIDEO: How to quickly grade open response questions

🔴 VIDEO: How to lock a quiz using 'response validation.' You can assign a code to a quiz that you post in the classroom or online when you are ready so that students cannot get into a quiz before you are ready. This example requires you to type in code 1234 before you can see the actual quiz questions. If you are giving the quiz to multiple periods, you can change the code on the quiz once all of your first students are in, OR you can create a second copy of the quiz with a different code and assign each copy to its own class.

🔴 VIDEO: Use Forms to create a scavenger hunt

🟢 RESOURCE: Forms does not offer options for formatting your text (bold, italicized, etc). Use Yaytext.com to type in phrases that you would like formatted, copy it and paste it into your Forms Quiz.

🟢 RESOURCE: Grab a quick quiz template with the first three questions already created

Students Who Need to Correct or Retake a Quiz

Scenario 1: I created a "Limit to 1 response" quiz and did not check the box to allow students to edit after submit = delete that student's quiz (the whole thing), and they can retake the whole quiz (video linked below on how to do that).

Scenario 2: I created a "Limit to 1 response" quiz, and did check the box that allows student to edit after submitting = have student find the quiz in your Classroom, and click on it. Google will tell them that they've already take the quiz, but will provide a link also to edit their submission.

Scenario 3: I created a quiz that was not limited to 1 response, but did not check the box to allow students to edit after submitting = the student can retake the whole quiz with no action from you.

Scenario 4: I created a quiz that was not limited to 1 response, and did check the box that allows students to edit after submitting = have student find the quiz in your Classroom, and click on it. Google will tell them that they've already take the quiz, but will provide a link also to edit their submission.

🔴VIDEO: How to delete an individual quiz or a whole class (individual to allow them to take it again, whole class if the quiz was used last year, and you want to clear it out to use again).

MAP Testing

MAP testing is now used in grades 2-8. Every student is tested in Reading and Math, and our 6th and 7th grades students also take Science. Below are some resources to help!

🔵 RESOURCE: Intro to RIT Scores and MAP

🔵 RESOURCE: FAQs About MAP

Getting Students Ready

🔵 RESOURCE: Google slides presentations to prepare K-1 students to take the MAP test.

🔵 RESOURCE: Google slides presentations to prepare Grades 2-5 students to take the MAP test.

🔵 RESOURCE: Google slides presentations to prepare Grades 6+ students to take the MAP test.

🌎 LINK: Students can follow this link to take a practice test. The username and password are both "grow," and after entering that, they can choose what grade level and what content area they want.

🔴 VIDEO: Prepare your students to take the test with this video that explains that they WILL encounter questions about content they've never seen, and that's ok!

Help Documents for Testing

🔴 VIDEO: How to deal with "Oops!" Pop-up Blocker Issue

🔵 RESOURCE: Creating a Custom Test Session (Makeup Testing or Testing Students Not Rostered Together)

🔵 RESOURCE: Administering the MAP Test at the Elementary Level

🔵 RESOURCE: Adding Text-to-Speech Accommodations to a Test

🔵 RESOURCE: Administering a MAP Skills Checklist (K-2) or Screening for Placement

Once Testing is Over

🔵 RESOURCE: Overview of Reports

🔵 RESOURCE: How to print Student Profile Reports for the whole class (or an individual)

🔵 RESOURCE: Converting a RIT score to a Lexile Level

🔵 RESOURCE: Converting a RIT score to an AR Dot Color

🔵 RESOURCE: Teacher Guide to Setting Student Growth Goals

Fastbridge (2-8)

Fastbridge is the most recent addition to our RTI toolbox. Jen Cook is our point person for this product.