Assessment Tool: Socrative

 

Socrative is a web-based interactive student response system enabling teachers to spark conversation and learning through user-created polls and quizzes. Students access questions using a Room code, and their responses can be seen from the teacher's computer as they submit their answers on almost any device. Teachers can display the results using the "How did we do?" button once everyone has responded. Teachers can create quizzes, quick questions, and exit tickets with multiple-choice, true/false, and one-sentence-response questions that can be graded and feedback provided to each student. Students can team up to play Space Race, a collaborative activity that allows student teams to answer questions as quickly as they can; the teacher can access real-time results of this race as well as determine student teams. Finally, teachers can view quiz data and download it to an Excel spreadsheet or email it to themselves for future planning.

I would use Socrative to create quizzes at the end of each unit. I would inform my students in advance of the day I was going to do the quiz and ask them to bring any technological device to the class where they could use Socrative, so I would observe my student's progress, then I could give feedback on them. I would also ask them to write an exit ticket at the end of each unit, to find out what they had in mind about the unit. In this way, I would also measure their writing skills.