Thing 18: Student Assessment & Feedback Tools

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INTRODUCTION

There are tons of tools available for gathering feedback from students, colleagues and other groups. Whether you need an anonymous brainstorming tool (eg: AnswerGarden) or a detailed survey form with lots of options (eg: Google Forms) there’s likely a free or relatively cheap option available.

This lesson includes a variety of tools that can be used for brainstorming, exit tickets, data collection, assessments, feedback and more.

READINGS, TIPS, RESOURCES

TOOLS TO EXPLORE

  • Padlet – Formerly known as WallWisher, handy and easy to use noteboard. Free / Fee. At it’s simplest, you set up a padlet board with a question. Students can add their reactions to the board, no student accounts needed. Lots of layout options and privacy settings.
  • Flipgrid – Terrific tool for recording short video responses to questions.  FlipGrid has been acquired by Microsoft and is now completely free!
  • PeerGrade – Run a “live session” for student peer review of work. Students sign in with a code, no email needed. They submit their work with a Google Drive link, a link to URL, text typed right in the app, or by uploading a file. They then give feedback on the work of 3 other students. And finally receive their own feedback.
  • Quizlet Live – Well known for creating flash card sets to help students learn and review content, the Live option turns your sets into a game. Quizlet creates random teams from your student lists and they must work together to answer questions and complete the game.
  • Spiral –  Currently includes 3 types of student activities: Quickfire for quick questions and answers, Discuss for interactive presentations, and Team Up for group work.
  • Vizia – Import a video from YouTube or Wistia. At any point in the video, easily insert polls and questions to check for understanding.. Students play the video, it stops where you’ve inserted a question. Students need to answer or skip questions to proceed. Results can be added to a Google sheet, along with student name.
  • EdPuzzle -Similar to Vizia. Add a video and add questions, quizzes and polls at specified points.
  • Kahoot – “Create, play and share fun learning games for any subject, for all ages, for free!” Very popular and lots of fun. NOTE: Watch out for students hijacking Kahoot with fake accounts.
  • Quizziz – Somewhat similar to Kahoot with some different options. Both are great for quiz like games in class. Short video from Tony Vincent demo-ing how it works.
  • Formative – Add content for students to review, then create assessment questions for them to answer. Create class groups to simplify administration.
  • SeeSaw – free iOS app lets students upload digital work and photos of physical work. Teacher can provide feedback, parents have access.
  • Plickers – iOS app to gather feedback from students in the classroom. You have the app on your device, students each have a large printed card with a QRCode on it. Each card can be used to select the answer A, B, C or D to your multiple choice question. Students hold up their card, you scan the room and app gathers answers.
  • AnswerGarden – Free tool for web and iPad. Pose a question, respondents answer anonymously and a word cloud is created.
  • Google Forms – Great for creating feedback forms and quizzes. Input is saved in a Google Drive spreadsheet. Google Forms now has a self grading feature.
  • RemindChat – Safe and simple one-on-chat messaging with students and parents. From the folks at Remind (formerly Remind 101)
  • PearDeck – adds interaction and feedback options to slide deck presentations. Free option and discounted educator pricing.
  • Clipisode – Make a video with a question, students can reply and add to the video. I haven’t tested this out yet, but looks really interesting!

LEARNING ACTIVITY

  • Explore 2 or 3 assessment tools that are new to you, whether listed in this lesson or other tools you want to explore.
  • Points to cover in your blog post:
    • Share why you chose the tools you did and how your testing worked out.
    • If you tried something out with a student or other group, tell us how things worked out.
    • How you might use these tools in your school setting.
    • Any other tips and ideas that you want to share.

*TURNING IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT

  • Write & publish your blog post.
  • Copy the URL (webpage address) for your post.
  • Return to your Google Classroom, find the assignment page for the lesson you just completed and follow the directions for turning in and sharing your work.

*Only for students participating in the workshop for PD credit hours through the Google Classroom.


14 thoughts on “Thing 18: Student Assessment & Feedback Tools

  1. 18. Jeopardy Rocks
    https://www.jeopardy.rocks

    Educators who are fans of using games to facilitate learning will
    appreciate Jeopardy Rocks. This free, easy-to-use tool allows users to
    create and save their own Jeopardy game questions to use in the classroom.
    Users can then facilitate their Jeopardy games by projecting the game board
    onto a screen, wall, or other surface. Facilitators can reveal new
    questions by clicking on each square and adjust scores simply by indicating
    whether a team answered correctly or incorrectly. Facilitators may choose
    to adjust the number of players (or teams) to accommodate different class
    sizes. Users will need to sign up for a free account to create and save
    games. [MMB] (The Scout Report — Volume 22, Number 27)

  2. including a free ebook on using Book Creator in formative assessment. https://bookcreator.com/2018/09/using-book-creator-for-formative-assessment/

  3. This site has a great variety of assessment tools. I found three that use in my class often. Quizziz, Kahoots, and Google Doc

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