Digital Formative Assessment

1. When are formative assessments typically used?

• At the end of a marking term

• During instruction

• As a culminating year end test

• Just for fun

What is the importance of formative assessment?

• It is used to guide instruction

• Adds a grade to the gradebook

• Tells teachers who their advanced learners are

• Shows administration evidence of teacher planning

Formative Assessments should be

• A quiz at the end of a lesson

• A way to check in with students and their learning

• Always have a definitive correct answer

Formative Assessments may be preplanned or created “on the fly.”

• True – Questions and discussions can arise spontaneously and influence instruction.

• False – They must be preplanned questions in order to be considered FA.

Which one of the following would not be an effective type of formative assessment?

• Observations of student conversations

• An Exit Ticket where students summarize the lesson’s concept

• A unit test

• Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down

Formative assessment tools can be formal or informal, digital or analog?

• TRUE
• FALSE

Formative Assessments must be graded.

• True – Students and their parents want a grade for all work that is completed.

• False – FA are just a snapshot of student progression and used to edit instruction towards educational goal.

Which of the Following are Formative Assessment tools built right into Google Education apps?

• Google Classroom: Questions

• Google Forms

• Google Drawings

• All of these can be used for formative assessment

Formative assessment...

• is a learning process
• should be thought of as a verb
• encourages students to take ownership of their learning
• all of the above

Digital tools of formative assessment can include:

• Socrative
• Nearpod
• Quizizz
• All of the above and more