Fast & Fun Formative Assessment – Slides
I ended my day today at the 2019 MACUL Conference by giving a favorite presentation of mine, Fast & Formative Assessment. I always giving this presentation and, based on the level of audience participation, people who come to it enjoy it too. It’s intended to provide attendees with ideas for fun assessment strategies and some […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
11 Backchannel & Informal Assessment Tools Compared in One Chart
Last winter I made a series of charts in which I compared popular ed tech tools. I’m now going through those charts and removing some tools and adding some new ones. The chart embedded below is the updated version of my chart comparing 11 backchannel and informal assessment tools. At the bottom of the chart […]