How to Use AI to Create Formative Assessments
A day ago I published a big list of AI tools and resources for teachers. This morning I tried another AI tool that is worth noting. That tool is the new AI-powered assessment generator that is now built into Formative. Formative’s new AI-powered assessment generator is currently a beta product that anyone with an active […]
Two Ways to Use Pictures in Formative Assessment
When I taught a computer repair class for high school students there were two ways that I consistently used pictures and diagrams in formative assessment. Formative Assessment With Images on FormativeEvery week I would have students answer questions based on a diagram that I upload to Formative.com. I like using Formative.com for this purpose because I […]
Three Great Ways to Create Online Exit Ticket Activities
This morning I received a question from a reader of my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter. She wanted to know what I would suggest as an alternative to Google Forms and Google Classroom for conducting exit ticket activities in her biology class. I quickly replied with three options that I really like. The first option that […]
Use Formative to Build Questions Into Primary Source Documents
Formative is a great tool for creating all kinds of online activities from simple multiple choice quizzes to in-depth examinations for documents. One of the ways that I like to use it is to upload a document and then build questions into the document for students to answer while reading. In this new video I […]
Formative Adds New Features for Creating Great Online Assessments
Formative is an online assessment platform that I’ve used and recommended for years. There are two features that keep me coming back to it. First, you can create questions that students respond to with free-hand drawings that they make on their computers or tablets. Second, you can upload documents and images to then add questions […]
Lee’s Map of Gettysburg – And Tools for Making It Interactive
Today’s featured document featured by the National Archives is a copy of General Robert E. Lee’s map of the Battle of Gettysburg. If you download a copy of the map (which you can do as it is in the public domain) and then zoom-in on it, you will be able to see the notations about […]
Formative 2.0 is Coming Soon – Save Your Data Soon
Formative is one of my favorite free tools for conducting interactive formative assessments. I’ve used it to create image-based quizzes and diagram-based quizzes. You can also use it to create interactive assessments based on documents that you upload to the site. Last week Formative announced via email that Formative 2.0 is coming soon. The new […]
How to Create an Interactive Diagram-based Quiz on Formative
With the NCAA basketball tournament Final Four games happening this weekend I thought this would be a good time to share an easy way to create a diagram or chart-based quiz in Formative. As is illustrated in the video below, I used Google Drawings to create my diagram. I downloaded that diagram as a PNG […]
Three Ways to Create Image-based Formative Assessments
From math to science to geography to art there are plenty of times when an image-based formative assessment is the best way to gauge a student’s understanding of a topic. The following three tools can help you create and distribute image-based formative assessments. Formative offers an nice way to create image-based quizzes. The image-based quizzes that […]
Choosito & Quick Key Partner to Provide Resource Suggestions Based on Assessment Results
Choosito is a neat search engine for students and teachers to use to find websites based on reading level. It also includes a number of filtering options that let teachers do things like eliminate search results from Wikipedia or message board communities. See how it works here. Quick Key is a popular app that lets […]
5 Formative Assessment Tools You Can Embed Into Your Website or Blog
Earlier this week I had a chat with a teacher about the role of formative assessments in his classroom. As most of my conversations about education do, our chat eventually drifted into the various formative assessment tools that we’ve tried over the years. One thing that I’ve always tried to do when selecting formative assessment […]
Five Good Digital Exit Ticket Tools
One of the strategies that I use when creating lesson plans is to reflect on the previous lesson. Part of that reflection includes feedback from students. This can be done by simply asking students to raise their hands in response to a “did you get it?” type of question, but I like to have better […]
4 Ways to Create Image-based Quizzes
Whether it is a graph for a math class, a diagram for a science class, or a map for a geography class there are plenty of times when an image provides a better question prompt than just words. Likewise, there are times when images provide better answer choices than words provide. Here are four free […]
The Value of Add-ons and Systems
Back in June when Google launched the new quizzes feature in Google Forms I saw plenty of people Tweeting things about the evils of multiple choice. Many of those same people accused Google and bloggers like me of perpetuating the evil practice of using multiple choice. The trouble with Twitter is that people often read […]
How to Create Image-based Quizzes on Formative
Last week I shared a post about some of my favorite features that the folks at Formative are working on for the fall. While we wait for those features to roll-out, take a look at one of my favorite current features in Formative. That feature is the option to create interactive, image-based quizzes. Watch my […]
5 Features to Look for on Formative in the Fall
Earlier this week at the ISTE 2016 conference I had a nice meeting with the founders of the popular assessment tool, Formative. Formative is hard at work to add new features in time for the new school year in the northern hemisphere. The list of features that they showed me is fifteen deep. Many of […]