If you have a relatively simple, objective assessment you need to give your students, you can do it quickly and easily using Google Forms. This works particularly well for formative assessments. In addition, it gives students the chance to be comfortable with using online resources and completing online assessments. You start with a regular Google Form, but once you set it up as a quiz, then you have the options to assign point values to questions, mark correct responses for an answer key, and offer feedback for correct and incorrect choices. You can even embed re-teaching resources in the feedback for incorrect answers, linking to YouTube videos, websites, or other online resources. Students can get immediate feedback about their performance on the assessment, and you as the teacher can spend less time actually grading the assessments and more time analyzing the data from the assessments. As much as I love making little videos for you, I found one that walks you through the whole process much better than I could ever do! Here it is if you'd like an easy-to-follow guide for how to use Google Forms for quizzes.
If you have already done this in your class, please leave a comments sharing how you use it and your thoughts!
I hadn't used it while teaching since it wasn't available while I was teaching... but in my new role as Building Level Technology Specialist I have helped a few teachers to create a form as a quiz. Another idea I came across looking through blogs/materials from Chris Aviles and Tom Mullaney was the idea of the unfailable quiz... I put together one on integers as a sample for my Feb Inst Integrating Tech into Math it is #1 on this page: https://sites.google.com/site/integratingtechintomath/home/integers
ReplyDeleteEssentially you can have students go to different "next sections" based upon the answer selected. In doing this you can send a student who struggles to a tutorial video specific to their error or to give a hint of some kind. It allows students to go back afterward to select the correct answer and learn while they're taking the formative assessment prior to taking a summative assessment.