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Formative Assessment
Formative assessment, including diagnostic testing, is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment.
To unlock formative assessment’s full potential, go beyond the bar chart and get students to reflect on their own learning goals, areas for growth, and next steps. Thankfully, the digital tools you're already using often have features to support this.
Two Teaching Strategies to Try Tomorrow
When your students see their quiz scores, do they move on rather than reflect on their learning? Try this fix: Run a simple poll or short-answer quiz after a quiz to focus students on self-assessment rather than scores. Here are a few suggested (and remixable) questions and prompts.
Follow Up a Quiz with This Poll
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Now that the quiz is over, how confident are you feeling about your understanding of X?
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How hard was the quiz?
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How prepared did you feel?
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How honest are you being with yourself about this?
... Or This Short-Answer Quiz
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What do you know now about the content that you didn’t know before the quiz?
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What do you know now about yourself that you didn’t know before the quiz?
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How can the class address our remaining misconceptions?
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What are some specific questions you still have about the content?
This information was added directly from Common Sense Graphite. You can fine many formative assessment tool options on Graphites website that have been reviewed by several teachers around the globe. Below are a few of those options with videos to help you understand how to use the tool and way to implement successfully in side your learning environment. To what others are saying about these applications, go to https://www.graphite.org/
Educanon is now Playposit. With the changes to the interface, new video tutorials are coming soon.
Many teachers are already familiar with Kahoot. However, I will create a few video tutorials to cover the newest features. Those videos will be posted soon.
As I become more familiar with Quizzes, I create relevant tutorials for you. Those videos will be posted soon.
