Formative Assessment
Tech Tools
Formative Assessment Overview
- goal is to monitor student learning
- help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work
- help teachers recognize where students are struggling and address problems immediately
- low stakes - little or no point value
Examples of Formative Activities
Observations - Questioning - Discussion - Exit/Admit Slips
Learning/Response Logs - Graphic Organizers - Peer/Self Assessments
Practice Presentations - Visual Representations - Kinesthetic Assessments
Indiviual Whiteboards - Four Corners - Think Pair Share
Google Forms
- Mobile Friendly
- Web Based
- Teacher creates quiz(form) and shares link with students
- Responses are complied in spreadsheet on Google drive
- Tutorial
- Flubaroo Instructions
Socrative
- Student Mobile App
- Teacher Mobile App
- Web Based
- Students join teacher's room number
- Real time questioning
- Instant results with visual
- Tutorial
Edmodo - Quiz Feature
- Mobile App
- Web Based
- Allows for fill in the blank & Matching
- Quizzes are saved - allows for future repeat
- Can set time limits
- Can schedule quiz in advance
- Auto grading option
- Allows pictures, videos, links & documents
Kahoot
- Mobile Friendly
- Web Based
- Teacher creates short quizzes
- Students respond by choosing picture associated with correct answer
- Students receive immediate feedback
- Students awarded points for correct answer & first to response
- Leader board shows top scorers
- Tutorial
Quizlet
- Mobile App
- Web Based
- Teacher creates Quizlet flashcards
- Students may select from flashcards, learner or test mode
- Game modes: Scatter or Space Race
- Tutorial
Linoit
- Mobile App
- Web Based
- Teacher create board
- Students join with shared link
- Students can respond by pinning notes, links,
photos, & videos, - Teacher sets privacy settings for board
- Moderate?
- Tutorial
Padlet
- Mobile Friendly
- Web Based
- Teacher creates account
- Students can respond by pinning notes, links,
photos, & videos, - Teacher can moderate posts before they appear?
- Tutorial
Baiboard
- Mobile App
- Collaborative whiteboard
- Teach creates class on app
- Students join with class code
- Response types: type, draw & load resources
- Tutorial
Classkick
- Mobile App
- Teacher creates class
- Student join with code
- Response types: free draw, or text
- Teacher can view entire class real time responses
- Tutorial
Geddit
- Mobile App
- Wed Based
- Join with class code
- Ongoing check for understanding
- Real time quiz
- Private help request
- Data collection
- Immediate feedback
- Tutorial
MathChat
- Mobile App
- Web Based (Teacher)
- Class code access
- Allows for real time collaboration between teacher & student
- Allows peer-to-peer real time collaboration option
- Checks problem steps
- Math keyboard
- Supervised chat feature
- Notification system for additional help request