Technology-Based Assessment

Technology-Based Tools for Assessing Student Work

Kahoot

Kahoot is a web-based quizzing tool that can be used as a collaborative of individual tool. Teachers create a set of multiple-choice quiz questions that students respond to on a connected device (such as smartphone, iPad, computer, etc.). There are numerous prepared quizzes teachers can use or modify, or teachers can create and share their own. Student responses are saved in a spreadsheet that can be downloaded and used to identify student proficiency or students who need reteaching.

Popular uses for Kahoot include test review, concept attainment/formative assessment, team building, and collaborative learning.

Kahoot meets ISTE Standard for Students 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Padlet

Padlet is a user-friendly, universal-access designed, collaborative, versatile tool for collecting and sharing information media. Some products students can develop are story boards, time lines, flow or organizational charts, or KWL charts. These Padlet products can consist of photographs, text, headings, and/or arrows or lines showing relationships between ideas in the Padlet. Students can collaborate by networking their Padlets with other students, making Padlet an excellent collaborative tool.

Popular uses for Padlet include story arcs for creative writing or for plot descriptions, timelines for history classes, class portfolios, organizational structure charts for government or chemistry classes.

Padlet meets ISTE Standard for Students: 3c: Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

Flipgrid

Flipgrid is a video discussion platform with numerous applications for formative and summative assessment. Teachers can post a discussion question about virtually anything and students then respond to in a video format. FlipGrid is usable on smart phones or on computers with camera/video interface, so it is usable by many (if not most) students.

Applications for Flipgrid include foreign language classes which require verbal practice (as well as ASL classes), a way to extend a Socratic seminar in an English class, a means of having students teach a lesson or present on a concept. Because the nature of Flipgrid is video discussion, the tool is highly collaborative.

Flipgrid meets ISTE Standard for Students 7b: Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.

Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere is an interactive polling tool teachers can use in a variety of ways to make formative assessments and to make presenting information more interactive than passive for students, which would in turn increase student engagement. Teachers can embed polls within information presentation (aka lecture) to get immediate feedback on student understanding through personal devices, such as smartphones, laptops, iPads, etc.

Applications for Poll Everywhere include teachers collecting prior knowledge information and checking for understanding during information dissemination.

Kahoot meets ISTE Standard for Students 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.