Today in class it was interesting for me to learn about the different types of formative assessments that are out there. In the past two years of teaching I have not had a wide range of technology available to me. I have had three classroom computers, my computer, and an iPad. We have access to the computer lab, but I am required to allow time for my students to complete our school programs, Lexia Core 5 and IXL. By the time we complete those programs we do not have time to venture out into other types of technology. This year, however, I am receiving multiple classroom iPads.
I hope to incorporate quite a few of these sources of assessments we discussed today this year. I definitely plan to use plickers this year, especially because it does not require a lot of technological resources. I think the students would enjoy getting to use a more "fun" and different type of assessment.
Along with that, I hope to be able to use Go Formative as I can collect results and give feedback to students! This will be great to have as data as well. I love the idea of having the results on the computer, rather than just the grade in the gradebook.
I hope to also explore other assessment options such as Kahoot, Socrative, Seesaw, and Go Soap Box eventually. I believe all of these would be great options to engage students and take aware from the stress of paper/pencil assessments!
I definitely agree! The younger aged students would LOVE having these tools rather than general paper-pencil tests. It would definitely be helpful, like you said, to have assessment information on the computer instead of just in the grade book. That would make it much easier to share information about students with parents, administrators, and even the students themselves! I hope you succeed in your goal of utilizing these tools in your classroom this year! :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with you!! With not being 1:1 yet or even having much technology in the classroom, all of these forms of assessment will be great to use to get more students engaged in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI am huge on giving feedback to students on assignment that they do in class, it will be nice to use go formative to give the student immediate feedback rather than just turning it in and receive the feedback later.