Assessment

Formative Assessment

To check whether learning has taken place, we need to track what students now understand, but more importantly, where there are gaps in that knowledge so that we can recap or reteach that material.

Here is a collection of the different sites I have used or mentioned throughout my blogs. If you know of any other suitable sites, please let me know and I'll happily investigate and share.

Forms (Microsoft)

Can be used on their own or as an assignment in MS Teams. It can be auto marked as a quiz and feed into the grade book on Teams. There is an amazing maths option to help you create questions and their distractor answers. Also, Forms questions can be added to a Microsoft Stream video at points throughout, checking knowledge as the student watches. All results are downloadable automatically formatted in Excel.

Goformative

Formative assignments, assessments and homework automagically display student work as-it-happens and keep track of student growth. I've used this when working with Level 1 students and created a quiz that overlayed a printout of a blank email with questions appearing in each section. A great way to check learning as it happens.

Gooru (previously Exit Ticket)

The Learning Navigator is a free, online tool that offers personalized pathways to help students reach their learning goals.

Kahoot

Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform for teachers of awesome, classroom superheroes and all learners. Play, learn, have fun and celebrate together!

Plickers

Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Only the teacher needs a device.

Focus more on teaching, lesson set-up

No waiting for students to log-in on a computer or even open the right app. Plickers integrates seamlessly into the way you already teach.

Quizizz

Find amazing quizzes made by other teachers, or create your own quizzes and share them with the world!
Start a "Live" game in class, or assign Quizizz as a fun "Homework" task. You control the competition by toggling the leaderboard, timer and other settings.

Quizlet

Simple tools for learning anything

Search millions of study sets or create your own. Improve your school results by studying with flashcards, games and more.

Socrative 

Socrative is your classroom app for fun, effective classroom engagement. No matter where or how you teach, Socrative allows you to instantly connect with students as learning happens.
Quickly assess students with prepared activities or on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding. Then use auto-populated results to determine the best instructional approach to most effectively drive learning.

Zipgrade

ZipGrade turns your phone or tablet into an optical grading machine similar to a Scantron. It reads free-to-download answer sheets in multiple sizes. Provide instant feedback to students by grading exit tickets, quizzes, and formative assessments as soon as they finish.