Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding. While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Here are some you can look into–and all online:
- Easy CBM
- Educreations–video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app)
- Edulastic–formative assessments; work on any devices (app)
- Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer
- Flubaroo (app)
- Gimkit–gamified assessment, like Kahoot; freemium
- Go Formative (app)
- Google Forms (app)
- Kahoot–quiz-show-like format (app)
- Socrative (app)
- Stick Around–turn questions into puzzles (app)
- ThatQuiz.org
Add-ons
Badges
- BloomBoard–badges for teacher PD
- Credly
- Open Badges
Class Review
- Digital Breakouts–review or assessment in a gamelike format; includes mostly history, but other topics; high school
- Kahoot–with a new team mode
- Quizlet Live–students join with a code, break into teams, and are quizzed on a Quizlet
Common Core Prep
- ReadyTest AtoZ--from RAZ Kids, freemium
Flashcards
Grading
- Gradescope (from Turnitin)
- Paperscorer–create quiz in Google Forms, grade it through Paperscorer
- Planbook–online lesson planning and gradebook
Quizzes/Tests
Peer Review
- PeerGrade–automate the process
Rubrics
SAT/ACT Online Resources
Warm-up/Exit Tickets
Failure
- The Crossing–attempts to cross a gorge; some fail; all result in success
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
Assessment is the difficult but necessary part of education. We even had assessments (performance reviews) at my work as an engineer. It is great that there are so many resources. I’ve noticed that are quite a bit differences between countries in how assessments are done.
It is difficult. I long ago decided for more formative approaches to assessment, but different countries have different ideas.