Formative Assessment

Formative assessments can be used any time during the lesson. The teacher and what they

used can determine how useful it is for the students and for the teacher. A few ideas that I was

looking into while doing this explore. These are a few of the formative assessments I wanted to

see if I could improve, they were create something, extension projects, doodle it, and quizzes.

For the first three I was thinking maybe have the students come up with a popplet either on a

piece of paper or if the school has access to computer on the website. It would be used for the

start of the lesson/chapter to see where the students are at for that topic. If you get a lot of them

back and they all say the same ideas, you as a teacher might not need to cover that idea. That

could save time to teach the harder/more challenging parts of the lesson/chapter. Then you can

have students throughout the lesson/chapter updated the popplet to add more ideas they are

learning about. That way you can see what the students are grasping from the lesson/chapter.

Finally, after you are done with the lesson/chapter you can have the students put on the popplet

what they have gotten from the work along with stuff they have learned at the end. This could

also help student’s organizer their ideas on the topic as well.

This is an idea of how it could look at the early stages for this formative assessment.

For the quizzes a good way to update those and have them seem less scary and more beneficial to

bother students and teacher is a group Kahoot game. I know it seems kind of boring but if

students have teams you as a teacher can see what groups need more help and who doesn’t. This

could also work as individuals if you are trying to see how everyone is on their own.

https://create.kahoot.it/v2/details/a812dced-be10-429b-9d57-c259f0cacd19