How to assess that Learning is taking place!

You walk into a classroom, you set some homework, how do you know that the students have completed this work or how much they remember from your previous lesson.

1. Use the lolly stick method asking random students socratic questions, encouraging others to build on the answer given, but...... that's only tested a couple of the students' knowledge, what about the rest.
2. Use an electronic system to collect the results.

Electronic systems are brilliant, you setup the questions in advance and then each student takes the test and you can identify their current knowledge level.
There are lots of ways of collecting this information.

• A Moodle Quiz - (which takes time to setup, not as easy as it looks, takes time to find the results)
• Kahoot.it - great fun in the classroom, the perfect way to test knowledge, you can download the results and the students love it. Uses mobile/tablet and Internet
• Socrative - another great way to test knowledge, again you can download the results, you can set games using the tests, uses mobile/tablet and Internet.

All of these are great systems, but you cannot easily see the progress of each student also the student doesn't see their own progress.

I've recently discovered Gooru.

This is a very different system and shows the progress each student is making to the teacher and also the student. Great for formative feedback, shows growth and also allows you to go into "reteach" mode and see at a glance which students struggled with each questions, and giving you the teacher the chance to identify the area that you need to go back over to ensure that the topic is covered correctly. This feedback is instant, no further analysis, it happens in the classroom.
The following video explains how Gooru Learning Navigator works.


My students are loving the feedback, they know immediately how they are doing in a subject, if they have weak areas and also that I know where their gaps are in their knowledge.