Socrative
This is an engaging tool for students to assess their grasp of a concept. The teacher can set up quizzes, including multiple choice, short answer, and true&false. The students receive instant feedback on their answers, since the teacher may add an explanation to each question.
Socrative also provides a pre-set "Exit Ticket", that the student fill out after each class. The questions are "How well did you understand today's material?", "What did you learn in today's class?", and "Please answer the teacher's question" allows for a content related question.
Further, Socrative allows for a "quick question" with live results.
The very nice feature of this tool is that the teacher receives instant student progress results in statistics. The teacher may choose whether to create progress reports for each student (by name or any other identifier) or using percentages without individual information. This may be used at any point of the unit - as pre-test, post-test, as ongoing assessment or the final test. Especially the Exit Ticket is very useful and extremely easy to conduct.
Socrative is a webbased tool, but Apple has an app for the iPhone as well as the iPad. This makes it a universal tool for all gadgets.
The teacher sets up an account and creates "rooms" for his students. The recreated assessments can then be used as student growth and for reflection. This tool is not a creative or collaborative student tool itself. However, student teams can answer questions - or students can create their own questions as part of a presentation and keeping their audience engaged.
Using Socrative is free!! http://b.socrative.com/login/teacher/
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