Assessment tools

Assessment Tools

Assessment Tools

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Polling AppsPolling apps engage students through the use of surveys and polls as methods of formative assessment.

Polling apps work like clicker technology, but the students computer or mobile device becomes the clicker.

These apps present an opportunity for formative assessment and increased participation from students.

KahootCreate a kahoot game made from a series of multiple choice questions. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions to amplify engagement.

Players answer on their own devices, while games are displayed on a shared screen to unite the lesson creating a campfire moment encouraging players to look up.

www.getkahoot.com

GoSoapBoxLeveraging web-enabled devices, teachers digitally engage students to conduct formative assessment and gain insight into student comprehension.

Key Features: Confusion Barometer lets students indicate whether or not they are getting it.

Social Q&A, lets students submit and vote for questions, allowing the best question to rise to the top.

www.gosoapbox.com

PlickersPlickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.Each student is given a card with a unique visual code. The code has 4 sides, each lettered A, B, C, and D. The student holds the card with the A, B, C, or D side up.The teacher opens the Plickers app and scans the room with his or her device. The app recognizes the cards, records who the teacher assigned them to, and captures the answer that each student chose.www.plickers.com

Scanner Assessment AppsScanner assessment apps turn a mobile device into an optical scanner (like a Scantron machine).

These apps make grading exit tickets, quizzes, and formative assessments quick and easy.

ZipGradeZipGrade turns your phone or tablet into an optical grading machine similar to a Scantron. It reads free-to-download answer sheets in multiple sizes. Provide instant feedback to students by grading exit tickets, quizzes, and formative assessments as soon as they finish.

http://www.zipgrade.com/

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InstaGradeInstaGrade turns your phone or tablet into an optical grading machine similar to Zipgrade.

The difference is that the answer sheets this app reads are the quiz itselfthe questions are printed on the scannable sheet.

This app allows for short written responses.

http://www.instagradepp.com/

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Presentation Assessment AppsPresentation Assessment Apps allow instructors to create multimedia presentations including slides, video, audio and images and embed assessment tools within them.

Depending on the app, users can move through the presentation by themselves or directed by the instructor.

The instructor can use the assessment data generated as formative assessment for lesson planning.

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NearpodNearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool in which a teacher can modify existing presentations or create new presentations that can contain quizzes, polls, videos, images, drawing-boards, and web content. The students access the presentation on their own devices. The instructor can then move the class through the presentation and let them interact with the media as they go.www.nearpod.com

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ZaptionZaption is a tool that allows instructors to create engaging interactive video lessons embedded with student response and assessment prompts.

Share video lessons with a simple link, or embed directly in your LMS, blog, or website.

www.zaption.com

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ClasskickWith Classkick, students work on assignments on their iPad using the iPad's screen as a whiteboard. Instructors see all their students work in real-time, on their own iPad. The instructor can give feedback to individual students or can facilitate students helping each other anonymously.

http://www.classkick.com/

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Rubric AppsRubric apps allow instructors to create rubrics for assessing students. Some rubric apps are helpful in generating rubric criteria language. Some are helpful in assessing performance-based assignments, with the ability to attach video and notes to the assessment.

EasyAssessmentThis rubric generator allows instructors to create rubrics in two easy steps. During assessment, the user is presented with a simple set of slider scales to quickly assess each students performance. Additional data can be tagged to each student in note, photo and even video form. The instructor can export an excel spreadsheet for analysis.

http://thepegeekapps.com/assessment/#iPad

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RubiStarRubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides customizable rubrics that can be used for many typical projects and research assignments. The teacher selects the type of project the rubric is for. Using a series of drop-down menus, the teacher selects what will be evaluated. The rubric fields are then populated with the assessment language. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

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