According to Formative Assessment Strategies for Every Classroom: An ASCD Action Tool, 2nd Edition by Susan M. Brookhart, Formative assessment refers to the ongoing process students and teachers engage in when they
The Global Digital Citizen Foundation has come up with 10 examples of Formative assessments. Click on the image above to learn more. The first example also provides a rationale for why we should integrate formative assessment practices. A great deal of information can be learned from students’ homework, tests, and quizzes. This is especially so if the students are required to explain their thinking. When teachers take the time to analyze student work, they gain knowledge about:
Another Idea they share is about Exit Tickets. I have seen many examples of teachers implementing Exit Tickets in their classrooms. 1. Post it Notes 2. Twitter Posts 3. Padlet 4. Google Forms Quiz Non-Graded Work Formative Assessment is non-graded. It is an opportunity for students to show what they know, and teachers to reflect on the next steps of instruction to prepare students for the summative assessment. Google Forms can provide opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning in a non threatening way. (The examples below are easier to demonstrate in person than describe. If you are interested in learning more, please let me know). 1. Self Guided Review - You can create a self guided review for students using Google Forms and the option to go to section based on answer, or data validation options when creating questions. With multiple choice questions if students get the question wrong they can be redirected to a resource to assist them with answering the question and then be redirected to the question. Using short answer questions, you can use data validation to create force students to get the question correct before they can more forward. I included one example of this that uses data validation here. 2. Extension Activity - You can add videos from Discovery Education, your Google Drive, or Youtube with students in 8th grade. Adding videos to forms allows you to create a learning activity where you can ask students questions about the video as they watch. You can create multiple choice or short answer questions and turn the form into a quiz, or you can use data validation to check understanding immediately. Here are two examples of adding videos Comparing Changes and Chemical Reactions. Other Formative Assessment Tools: The following were shared by Richard Byrnes
Kahoot is a service for delivering online quizzes and surveys to your students. The premise of Kahoot is similar to that of Socrative and Infuse Learning. On Kahoot you create a quiz or survey that your students respond to through any device that has a web browser. Your Kahoot questions can include pictures and videos. As the teacher you can control the pace of the Kahoot quiz or survey by imposing a time limit for each question. As students answer questions they are awarded points for correct answers and the timeliness of their answers. A scoreboard is displayed on the teacher's screen. Students do not need to have a Kahoot account in order to participate in your activities. To participate they simply have to visit Kahoot.it then enter the PIN code that you give to them to join the activity. Students should not create their own Kahoot games. Socrative is the standard to which I compare all new student response systems. Socrative uses cell phones and or laptops (user's choice) for gathering feedback from students. You can post as many questions as you like in a variety of formats. One of the more fun question formats is the "space race" format in which students can work individually or in teams to answer questions as quickly as possible. Plickers - For classrooms that aren't 1:1 If not every student in your classroom has a laptop or tablet to use, then you need to check out Plickers as a student response system. Plickers uses a teacher's iPad or Android tablet in conjunction with a series of QR codes to create a student response system. Students are given a set of QR codes on large index cards. The codes are assigned to students. Each code card can be turned in four orientations. Each orientation provides a different answer. When the teacher is ready to collect data, he or she uses the Plickers mobile app to scan the cards to see a bar graph of responses. In your teacher account on Plickers you can view and save all of the data that you collected from scanning your students' Plickers cards. Dotstorming ss not currently on the approved list, but if you are interested we can complete a Media Resource Selection Checklist and should be able to get it approved as it is a teacher tool and doesn't require students to log in to participate. Please let me know if you are interested in using. Dotstorming is a neat tool that combines a bit of Padlet with a polling tool. On Dotstorming you can create a space for people to post digital sticky notes. Those notes can contain text and or images. That part of Dotstorming is just like Padlet. What makes Dotstorming different is that once the notes are posted, you can have people vote for their favorite notes. As the creator of a Dotstorming space you can restrict the number of votes that each person can cast. For example, you could say that each person gets two votes and once those votes are cast they're prevented from casting any more votes. After the voting is completed, you can sort the notes according to the number of votes they received. See Dotstorming in action in this video. Students should use anonymized names that the teacher provides for them.
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Did you know you don't have to join Twitter to use it as a professional resource?
For someone who isn't sold on joining Twitter and just wants to know more about it, you can go to Twitter.com and search through the Twitter feed to find information that is valuable to you. The cool thing about Twitter is that it is kind of like channel surfing. Instead of channels, Twitter uses # which create various feeds that kind of collect information/posts that include the matching #. So if people want to learn about educational technology, the might look at #edtech, or if you want to know more about PBIS you can check out #pbischat which is also a weekly chat about PBIS. Want to see if there is one for your content or interest area, check out the list of educational Twitter chats. If you don't have an account, you can use the search in Twitter to look for the # you want to then search through the feed to find resources and information. You can also do a combination where you use a # and positive and you get a more narrow feed like this. Or for social studies teachers wanting information about the Civil War you could try #sschat and Civil War and look through these results. If you begin finding people who are sharing resources of value to you, you might then reach out to contact them, or consider joining Twitter and begin following them. If you are someone new to Twitter and decide to join, please let me know and I can provide some additional training on how to get the most out of Twitter. The world of technology is ever changing. Just this week Elon Musk introduced his electric Semi-Truck. Others are continuing to push the boundaries of AI, artificial intelligence. The devices we use continue to become more powerful with the potential to make us more efficient, or create more distractions depending on how we use them. I am unable to keep up with all of the innovations that take place, or even read all of the articles and posts that I come across about new edtech. I often find myself sifting through the material to determine what is useful for me, and realize I might be passing up on something that would be useful for others. I wanted to share a few places that I turn to as a resource for learning about edtech. Before I share, I want to again point out that not every resource in the blogs or resources that I am sharing here are acceptable to use with our students. Our district is doing an outstanding job of protecting student data privacy and as part of that new resources need to go through the process to make sure they meet our guidelines for student data privacy. If you have questions about any of the resources, please contact your LMS or myself to begin looking at the resource. This is also a great time to remind you of all of the resources that are currently available. You can check the Classlink Launchpad and the Online Resources page to see if the resource you are looking to use has already been approved, or is on the Green, Yellow or Red lists. Technology Resources beyond the district - Matt Miller has written a book Ditchthattextbook based on many of the posts he has shared in his blog of the same name. He utilized Google Apps frequently to create learning activities for students. I especially like his work with Google Drawing as I think that is an underutilized resource. Alice Keeler has written a few books including 50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom. She has one of the best edtech blogs and shares ideas about how to integrate technology, especially using Google Tools frequently. Richard Byrne is another edtech blogger who shares ideas about resources and provides ideas on how to implement them daily. His blog is filled with innovative ideas and resources, many I have not heard of before. His site is one that definitely warrants caution as we have to remember our policy on student data privacy. While we might not be able to use all of the resources he shares, I believe he is a great resource to share because of his thinking on how to integrate technology. His posts have lead me to explore alternative technologies to accomplish the same goal. If you see something of interest on his site and want to explore it further, please let me know. |
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