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Digital Formative Assessment Tools
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT TOOLS
Post Questions to your students quickly, have them answer the questions, gather data, and reteach towards mastery. Here are some tools that allow you to do this quickly.
QUIZIZZ
Pick the perfect quiz or create your own.
Choose from millions of free teacher-created quizzes or quickly make your own. Students engage at their own pace by playing a live game together or using Homework mode. Students use any device and progress independently.
POLL EVERYWHERE
Engage your audience or class in real time
Poll Everywhere transforms one-sided presentations into two-way conversations with the audience. This web-based audience response system lets you embed interactive activities directly into your presentation. The audience responds on the web or via SMS texting on their phones.
- Limited to 1 question at a time.
- Create and deliver different types of questions to get different types of data.
- Multiple Choice, Clickable Image Questions, or Open-Ended questions that create word clouds, Text walls, and Tickers.
PLICKERS
Tailor instruction with instant feedback
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.
- Set up your classes with student names or give your student numbers.
- Print out the cards one for each of your students.
- Ask your students a question.
- Students hold up the cards and you use your phone to collect data from all students in the room.
KAHOOT
Kahoot
A game-based learning and trivia platform
Create a fun learning game in minutes. Multiple choice questions only however, the format and number of questions are entirely up to you.
- Multi-question Quizzes, Surveys, and Discussions.
- Add images and video to quizzes.
- Best played in a group setting
SOCRATIVE
Visualizing student understanding has never been easier
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.
- Students must create an account and join your classroom with the code.
- You ask them questions, they answer them.
- You get data and know the identity of the students.
FORMATIVE
Student growth made easy
Formative creates incredible online, assessments, classwork, or homework. Formative runs on any internet connected device. Students can type, show their work with drawings or submit images.
- Thousands of pre-made formative assessments
- Add a pdf/doc and assign questions to the pdf/doc
- Act on live responses