20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom
OCTOBER
29, 2018 BY KASEY BELL
https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/20-formative-assessment-tools-for-your-classroom/
In this post, you will find 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your
Classroom!
Let’s make sure we are all on the same page when it comes to
formative assessment, or what I like to refer to as, “Assessment FOR Learning”.
“Teachers who use,
“Assessment FOR learning,” involve their students in ongoing self-assessment in
ways that reveal to those learners:
(a) where they are headed in their learning,
(b) where they are now in relation to those expectations, and
(c) how each student can close the gap between the two.
Formative assessment is such an essential part
of the learning process and student success, and many digital tools can help
support this process.
This list has a wide variety of features and
options to help you solidify your formative assessment strategies! Many of the
tools below are great for both formative and summative assessments.
20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom
Edpuzzle allows you to turn videos into a
quick assessment. Choose a video on YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course, or
upload your own. Trim the video, insert a quiz anywhere and track your students
progress. (Freemium, basic account is free, additional features available with
paid accounts.)
Edulastic is a complete assessment dashboard.
Teachers can create and track assessments, and even align with CCSS. They also
offer a district wide-platform for sharing district-wide assessments. (Free for
teachers, district-sharing requires a paid license.)
Flipgrid is a video discussion platform, that
allows students to respond to questions, topics, and reflect using video.
Students can also respond to each other, leave comments, and more. (Free!)
Some have said that Gimkit is Kahoot on
steroids. Gimkit is another fast-paced quiz game, but with an extra
element. Student earn in-game cash to spend on game upgrades. Check out Leslie Fisher’s review and video to learn more.
5. Google Classroom Question Tool
Inside Google Classroom, you have the option
to create a questions and share that with students. You can make this
collaborative, or just have the answers viewable for you the teacher. This is
not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy
for formative assessments and to check for understanding.
Formative is a free online assessment tool
that is very robust. Formative allows teachers to choose pre-made assessments
and edit to fit your needs, create your own from scratch, or even upload a PDF
or doc to create. They also offer some fantastic data that you can track and
intervene when needed. (FREE and integrates with Google Classroom!)
Google forms is a survey and quiz tool that is
very easy to use. You can feed your form or quiz data into a Google Sheet for
analysis and evaluation. Both Google Forms and Sheets also have many “add-ons”
that give users even more capabilities that can power your formative
assessments. (FREE)
InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets
you turn any webpage into an interactive lesson. InsertLearning has this
fantastic toolbar that will allow you to highlight text, add sticky notes,
insert questions, videos, or even a discussion all inside the webpage! Learn
more about InsertLearning here: 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning.
(InsertLearning is a freemium application, but you get your first five lessons
for free.)
Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia
platform that allows you to create very engaging quizzes for your classroom.
Kahoot! is super fun and addictive. You can create your own kahoots, or choose
from their library of games. Play live kahoots, in groups, issue challenges, or
assign as homework. (FREE)
Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool
that allows you to poll your students, check for understanding, or ask students
to vote. There are several different types of questions you can create,
image-based, multiple choice, scales, open-ended, questions from the audience
and more. You can even generate word clouds out of responses! (Freemium, some
features are free.)
Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for
teachers to engage students with interactive lessons. Nearpod allows you to
create and share lessons that sync across devices and encourage student
participation, and evaluate student responses through comprehensive reporting.
(Freemium, some features are free.)
Padlet is a super easy to way to create an online bulletin board that allows teachers and students to share and collaborate. What’s great about Padlet is that it offers so much flexibility! It works on any device, and you can share just about any type of information–text, links, upload files, photos, videos, just about any kind of response. There are also many different ways you can design your pages. Customize the background, organize information in new ways. (Free trial available)
Pear Deck is a web-based formative assessment
tool that allows you to create interactive lessons using G Suite tools. The
Google Slides add-on has quickly become a favorite of mine. (I even teach it in
my Google Slides Master Class!) Pear Deck offers
a library of free templates that you can use to created interactive assessments
in your slides. Pear Deck is also a freemium tool, some features are free, but
you can get a 3-month
Premium Membership with this special link for Shake Up Learning readers!
This assessment tool allows teachers to
collect on-the-spot formative assessment data without the need to have students
use devices or paper and pencil. Teachers create and print specially coded
cards that students hold up in class as their response. The teacher uses
the Plickers app to scan the cards and collect the data. (Free)
Poll Everywhere is a live audience polling
tool that integrates into your presentation. You can ask questions during your
lessons, see live data, and reports. (Freemium, free accounts are limited to 25
responses per poll.)
Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced
formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.
Quizizz works on just about any device and offers a library of public quizzes
that teachers can use in their classrooms. They also provide detailed class and
student reports. (FREE)
Quizlet is a study tool that uses flashcards,
games, and other “study sets.” to help students. Quizlet Live is a
collaborative quiz game where students are placed into teams to work together
to answer the questions and learn together. (FREE)
Seesaw is a digital portfolio and
communication tool that many teachers love! Seesaw works on any device
shared or 1:1. Free for teachers. Teachers create activities for students.
Students draw, take pictures and video, and capture their learning in their
portfolio. Parents can view their students work and leave comments. (Freemium,
some features are free.)
Socrative is a web-based formative assessment
tool that allows teachers to create quizzes, ask questions, collect exit
tickets and feedback. You can also create a competitive quiz bowl game, called,
“Space Race,” where students compete to get the most answers correct. (Freemium
with up to 50 students per session.)
Spiral.ac is an interactive learning platform
with a suite of collaborative applications. Deliver quickfire formative
assessments, discussion, teams of students can work together to create
presentations, and turn any public video into a live chat with questions and
quizzes. (Freemium, some features are free.)
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