With the establishment of Student Learning Objectives (SLO's in the state of South Carolina), personalized learning is moving to the forefront. Technology is an awesome tool that presents countless options to assist with data collection on students.
According to San Diego State University professors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, "checking for understanding is the link between teaching and learning...". To support student learning these two well established professors believe that checks for understanding should take place every 5 to 10 minutes.
This is a great place to pause because that sounds terribly overwhelming. However, technology put the critical information you need at your finger tips. Here's a great tool: www.goformative.com
Formative is an easy to use website that works with android devices as well as iPads. Teachers can create assessments with multiple choice questions, open ended responses, and there's even space for students to show their work with math problems.The teacher dashboard allows teachers to create folders and separate assessments by topic or simply create a folder for each class. The process to enroll your students is seamless. Simply create your class and have students join with the code. Assessments can also be assigned without the create of a class through a shared link. Class setup is required in order for students to see results, guests will not see their feedback.
The "live results" option on the dashboard displays student results. Correct answers can be entered or teachers can simply use this informally to check for understanding. New features that increase functionality with Google Classroom and a few other changes are on the way. It's free so it won't cost you anything to go Formative.
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