Quality assessment is at the core of good teaching. Assessment apps can beneficial for a number of reasons:
- Assessments become easier for educators to present to assign and grade.
- Improve the quality of the assessment.
- Provide assessment in new and engaging ways that are appealing to students.
- Allow assessments to be more regular and less intrusive in the classroom.
The following provides a few examples of apps that have been developed to help improve assessment within the classroom.
Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages! Focusing primarily on formative assessment, Kahoot gives you the ability to weave engaging, real-time assessment to your daily teaching practice.
TodaysMeet is web-based chat tool that allows students to have an open discussion on a given topic. It opens the door for quieter students to be just as involved in the discussion as those who are routinely loud and boisterous. TodaysMeet gives teachers the ability to assign the subject, monitor and direct the conversation, and save the entire chat to assess for student understanding.
Prodigy is a math assessment tool that features some of the most seamless gamification to date. Students are immersed in a quest, travelling through a land of wizards and wonder. Every step of their adventures involves completing math challenges to stretch and grow their understanding. These math questions are inline with a number of popular curriculum and are presented to students in such a way that they don’t know they learning or being assessed.
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Using the camera function of a smart-device, teachers are able to scan their classroom for students answers to a question. Students hold up a QR code that indicates an answer by how it is being held.
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