Thursday, January 28, 2021

Series: Formative Assessment Tools for Teachers 3

There is no shortage of strategies, techniques, and tools available to teachers who use formative instructional practice in their classrooms. Here is a list of digital tools, apps, and platforms that can help you and your students use formative assessment to elicit evidence of learning. 

The tools

  1. Coggle A mind-mapping tool designed to understand student thinking.
  2. Conceptboard This software facilitates team collaboration in a visual format, similar to mind mapping, but using visual and textual inputs.
  3. Crowdsignal Quick and easy way to create online polls, quizzes, and questions. Students can use smartphones, tablets, and computers to provide their answers, and information can be culled for reports.
  4. Dotstorming A whiteboard app that allows digital sticky notes to be posted and voted on. This tool is best for generating class discussion and brainstorming on different topics and questions.
  5. EdPuzzle Use video to track student understanding.

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