Activity 7 - Assessment/Polling & Data Gathering Part 1

For activity 7 I decided to play around with Socrative and Exit Ticket as my two data gathering web tools.

I decided on Socrative because of all the neat features you can use. I found Socrative to be very easy to use. You can use it for pretests, post-tests, quizzes or any number of assessments. You can take these assessments online or you can print them off to give as paper/pencil tests. You can take a quick poll or give a short formative assessment while you are teaching, to see if your class is following what is being taught or if you have lost them. You have the ability to make exit slips. One super neat feature allows you to make your assessments into races where teams compete against each other using the questions from your created assessments. I am very excited to use this program more this year. For my example of Socrative I posted two assessments I created that cover the first set of Minnesota state standards for mathematics. I do think it got away from me a bit, but as I got going I felt both assessments could benefit my team and me this year so I got two complete with the hopes to create more throughout the year.

Numbers and Operations pretest (Common Core 4.1.1.1 - 4.1.1.4)

Numbers and Operations pretest (Common Core 4.1.1.5 - 4.1.1.6

Room code: EDWIVJG8


Exit Ticket was interesting to use. There are a lot neat features in theory. I wont be able to truly say how they work until I have more data to add. As far as ExitTicket, it was fairly simple to use. Making an exit ticket was easy. The save feature is a little confusing and I had to enter some questions again. Other then that I had no trouble. Some thing that I found super cool was the ability to add widgets that sort your data from exit tickets into more usable data. You have the option to break students data down to see who performed the best, which students performed poorly and need some reteaching or intervention. You can see students who made the most growth between two tests or a group of tests. You can see students who have the best overall proficiency. I am excited to use this webtool further to see if these widgets are as useful as they seem. It seems to me that Socrative and ExitTicket do similar things. ExitTicket you can also take class polls, you can use it as mid-lesson practice to see how the lesson is going. It would be easy to use while teaching a lesson. The exit ticket I created covers a fourth grade common core language arts standard where students have to be able to explain the major differences between poetry, drama and prose using vocabulary from each. I will use this exit ticket after I feel the material has been covered.

Poetry, Drama, Prose Exit Ticket

Room code: njf927176


I love the idea of webtools like this that help teachers sort through data to focus teacher effort on those specific students that need extra pracitce. This will also help to keep advanced students from being bored with information they have mastered as. This will be something great to play around with this coming school year.