Formative+Assessment+Tools

This page features online tools that can be used in the library or even in the classroom for formative assessment.

=Great Sites for Online Formative Assessment:= media type="custom" key="29541269" width="220" height="220"

=Kahoot= https://getkahoot.com/

=Ideas and Examples= Create quizzes that check for understanding after students read an article or a book. Create quizzes that check for understanding after students conduct research. Use at staff development. Can be used as a pre or post activity. https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/fca4fc5b-256b-4d85-8fb4-cf802a0f38da (Plagiarism) https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/3a1f4505-e2a5-4a4d-852b-297a46243afb (Martin H.S. School-wide Behavior Matrix Quiz)

=Pros= Free! Easy to learn and use. Colorful and musical. Makes you feel like you're on a game show, generating competition between the kids. Kids can use nicknames, and it blocks them from using a bad word. You can search their library for kahoots that have been set to public such as the ones I created above. Offers options such as shuffling the questions randomly. Students can use any device so long as it has internet access and a browser.

=Cons= No way to record responses if you want to grade participation. The students have to be able to see your screen to see the answers. Their device screen will only show colors corresponding to the answer choices.

=Quizizz= http://quizizz.com

=Ideas and Examples= Have students take a quiz on their devices. Be sure to have them lay their device flat if you want to prevent cheating.

@http://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/start_new/56896c8aad5ffbdc1f9b6cc0

=Pros= Free! Easy to learn and use. Colorful and musical with cute avatars selected for each player. Generates competition though it's not on the big screen. Students take it inindividually You can search the library of existing games. I found the one above for example. Great filler if you have time left at the end of a class. You can shuffle questions and answers to prevent cheating. You can choose from many other options such as music, cute memes displayed after each question answered, showing the leaderboard, timer, etc. You can generate reports so you can see where kids are weakest and record grades if desired.

=Cons= Students play individually on their phone or device, so if you're going for whole group excitement and competition, you may not achieve it. That being said, this is great for those rowdy groups who can't seem to handle whole class competitions.