{"id":1054,"date":"2017-03-22T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2017-03-22T20:48:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:48:58","slug":"an-update-on-using-tech-to-support-formative-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/an-update-on-using-tech-to-support-formative-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update on Using Tech to Support Formative Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in September, I posted about how my math exit slip process had evolved<\/a> over time, becoming more effective through the use of technology. My system has taken another term, which has made it easier for everyone involved.<\/p>\n

The process I was using in September used the Formative.com<\/a> website. \u00a0That website has many features I was not using. Since I wasn’t gaining benefits from those other features, Formative was a big, clunky tool for my purpose. Creating and viewing the exit slips was a slow process\u00a0for me. \u00a0Using the web app or the iPad app was a slow process for my students.\u00a0The drawing tool was rough, and the text tool non-existent on the iPad which made their work difficult to read and encouraged sloppiness. \u00a0It was better than anything else I had tried, but it wasn’t the formative assessment nirvana I was seeking.<\/p>\n

A few months ago, I read\u00a0about a new Google Forms feature. It is\u00a0now possible for form participants to upload a file. For me, that was the missing piece. \u00a0(You can read Google’s announcement\u00a0here<\/a>. )<\/p>\n

Armed with this new tool, I set about revising my process yet again. \u00a0For each math unit,\u00a0I create a Google form to use as a template. \u00a0It has all of the needed parts EXCEPT the item that lets them\u00a0upload files. \u00a0For each exit slip, I make a copy of that template and rename it accordingly. Here is this unit’s template. (Forgive me the St. Pat’s theme. They are kids. They seem to appreciate the theme change each unit.)<\/p>\n

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Notice that I included a name line. I could have the form automatically capture their username, but that requires logging in. My students have been good about putting their name on their submissions, so this has saved them time.<\/p>\n

The question with the bus is just a photo. \u00a0Each day’s exit slip is already in the lesson’s Google Presentation. I snap a screen shot of it and upload it in place of the image in the template.<\/p>\n

My students have three options each day of how to complete the exit slip. \u00a0Their first choice is to type their answer. \u00a0Their second choice is to upload an image. Sometimes that is a screen capture, and other times is it a photo of a physical model, or something they have worked on whiteboard or notebook. Their final choice is to both type and upload. I’m surprised at how often they choose the latter. To give them this choice, neither item is a required option in the form<\/p>\n

Next, I add the file upload item. I \u00a0can’t have that item already in the template. When I tried that, the forms always had a problem and deleting the item didn’t fix it. Instead, I add that item to each exit slip. It is one of the item\u00a0types when you select to add an item.<\/p>\n

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When you select that option, you can choose how many files a participant can upload. I let students upload 5. \u00a0Since my students are supposed to show me their exit slip before they submit it, student often end up revising and adding their revised image. Brain research suggests that feedback is most useful within 20 minutes of completing a project. \u00a0This lets me provide that 1-on-1-just-in-time reteaching that seems to make the exit slip educational for them and an assessment tool for me.<\/p>\n

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With the last item in place, I grab the URL of the live form, and add it to the unit’s math assignment page.<\/p>\n

Most of my students complete the exit slip in class. For students who don’t, I can view\u00a0their slips either in the form itself, or by sending the form responses to a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

From the first day, my students liked\u00a0the Google Form exit slips. The tool no longer gets in the way of them showing what they know. \u00a0All around, it’s a win.<\/p>\n

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Back in September, I posted about how my math exit slip process had evolved over time, becoming more effective through the use of technology. My system has taken another term, which has made it easier for everyone involved.<\/p>\n

The process I was using in September used the Formative.com website. That website has many features I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-google_apps","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}