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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom. Formative Assessment & Technology. What is Formative Assessment?

Formative Assessment & Technology

Gives teachers information to drive instructionProvides ongoing feedbackHelps students identify their strengths and weaknesses Formative Assessment Tools Kahoot! Kahoot! Is a game-based website that allows teachers to create games with multiple choice questions for the students to answer. Are you ready to have some fun? On your device or laptop, open kahoot.it.Enter the Pin number projected on the screen and click Enter.Type in your name and click Join Game.Wait for the teacher to begin the game. Good Luck!

The Team Mode is another great feature of Kahoot! Use Answer Streak Bonus with any Kahoot! Kahoot! Quizizz Quizizz is very similar to Kahoot, except the questions appear on the students' devices. Quickly Create Online Quizzes For Free. Quiz maker - create your own quiz, poll, survey, and more ツ. Quizalize - Pinpoint classroom progress in real-time. The Test Generator. Testmoz is a test generator that sports 4 question types, automatic grading, a really simple interface and detailed reports.

Testmoz is free, and does not require you (or your students) to register. You can build a fully functional test in about a minute, so why don't you give it a try and generate a test? And for a mere $20/year, you can unlock some potentially useful features. I lost my quiz URL can you retrieve it for me? No. How do I view the test results or edit my test? Go to your test URL, click the "Admin" tab, and enter your password. I forgot my test's admin password. No. If you paid $20 for an account, you can reset your account password here. Accelerate learning with MAP interim assessments. Your Rubric. Harvard Referencing Generator. Assessment and Rubrics. Learn more about our Online Courses, Online Certificate Programs, and Graduate Degree A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, group work/cooperative learning, concept map, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects.

Assessment and Rubrics

Quick Links to Rubrics Social Media Project Rubrics Wiki RubricCriteria for assessing individual and group Wiki contributions. Blog RubricAssess individual blog entries, including comments on peers' blogs. Twitter RubricAssess learning during social networking instructional assignments. Discussion, Teamwork, and Group Work Rubrics Online Discussion Board RubricAssessing ability to share perspectives, refine thoughts through the writing process, and participate in meaningful discussionPrimary Grade Self-Evaluation Teamwork Rubric (PDF)Features of a sandwich to graphically show the criteria. What the C-test is. By Lucy Katona and Zoltan Dornyei from: Forum English Teaching The C-test is an integrative testing instrument that measures overall language competence, very much like the cloze test.

What the C-test is

It consists of four to six short, preferably authentic, texts in the target language, to which “the rule of two” has been applied: the second half of every second word has been deleted, beginning with the second word of the second sentence; the first and last sentences are left intact. If a word has an odd number of letters, the “bigger” part is omitted, e.g., proud becomes pr-. One-letter words, such as I, are ignored in the counting. The students’ task is to restore the missing parts. By way of illustration, here is a short C-test: “One cool autumn evening, Bob L., a young professional, returned home from a trip to the supermarket to find his computer gone. Comparison with the cloze test. May, 1998, From Now On. Introduction: The New Plagiarism Could electronic text spawn a virulent strain of student copying?

May, 1998, From Now On

Is cut-and-paste the enemy of thought? Many teachers who work in "wired schools" are complaining that new technologies have made it all too easy for students to gather the ideas of others and present them as their own. The New York Times reports that "cheating is on the rise. " (Go to September 16, 1998 article) The New Plagiarism may be worse than the old because students now wield an Electronic Shovel that makes it possible to find and save huge chunks of information with little reading, effort or originality.

Is the New Plagiarism any worse than the old? Under the old system of "go find out about" topical research, it took students a huge amount of time to move words from the encyclopedia pages onto white index cards, changing one word in each sentence so as to avoid plagiarism. The New Plagiarism requires little effort and is geometrically more powerful. Level One Research "Just the Facts" Check for Plagiarism On the Web For Free - PlagiarismChecker.com. A Rubric for Assessing Rubrics. Recipes4Success. Logiciels de Lucy Georges. A Collaborative Learning Community.: RCampus Open Tools for Open Minds. Readiness Checklist - Online Learning - Academics - Concordia University. Teachers TV: E-assessment - Where Next?

School Matters - E-assessment - Where Next? Online Learning Quiz. Great!

Online Learning Quiz

You’ll need to be able to download course material, get assignments and communicate with other students and your instructor. Fabulous! You’ll need to be able to download course material, get assignments and communicate with other students and your instructor. Contact a college advisor or counselor to help with other options. If you do not have a computer or access to a computer and the internet then online courses will not work for you.

Good. It’s good you understand these basic skills and it would be wise to have a backup plan in case you have technology problems. Beware! Good. Consider how important this is to your learning and decide whether or not you are currently willing to challenge yourself to learn in a new way. Stop here! Great. Great, it’s good that you realize when it is important to speak up. It is important that you contact your instructor if you’re having any sort of problem. Super! Good. ICT Can DO List. Microsoft-word-can-do.pdf (application/pdf Object) Online-rubric-2007-03-07a.xls - online-rubric.pdf. Check for Plagiarism On the Web For Free - PlagiarismChecker.com. Www.idecorp.com-assessrubric.pdf.

RubiStar Home. Simple free learning tools for students and teachers. Splendid Speaking. ELSA Listening Instructions and Practice Test.