20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

(in alphabetic order)

1. Edpuzzle

Edpuzzle allows you to turn videos into a quick assessment. Choose a video on YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course, or upload your own. Trim the video, insert a quiz anywhere and track your students progress. (Freemium, basic account is free, additional features available with paid accounts.)

2. Edulastic

Edulastic is a complete assessment dashboard. Teachers can create and track assessments, and even align with CCSS. They also offer a district wide-platform for sharing district-wide assessments. (Free for teachers, district-sharing requires a paid license.)

3. Flipgrid

Flipgrid is a video discussion platform, that allows students to respond to questions, topics, and reflect using video. Students can also respond to each other, leave comments, and more. (Free!)

4. Gimkit

Some have said that Gimkit is Kahoot on steroids. Gimkit is another fast-paced quiz game, but with an extra element. Student earn in-game cash to spend on game upgrades. Check out Leslie Fisher’s review and video to learn more.

5. Google Classroom Question Tool

Inside Google Classroom, you have the option to create a questions and share that with students. You can make this collaborative, or just have the answers viewable for you the teacher. This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments and to check for understanding.

6. Formative

Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. Formative allows teachers to choose pre-made assessments and edit to fit your needs, create your own from scratch, or even upload a PDF or doc to create. They also offer some fantastic data that you can track and intervene when needed. (FREE and integrates with Google Classroom!)

7. Google Forms

Google forms is a survey and quiz tool that is very easy to use. You can feed your form or quiz data into a Google Sheet for analysis and evaluation. Both Google Forms and Sheets also have many “add-ons” that give users even more capabilities that can power your formative assessments. (FREE)

8. InsertLearning

InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets you turn any webpage into an interactive lesson. InsertLearning has this fantastic toolbar that will allow you to highlight text, add sticky notes, insert questions, videos, or even a discussion all inside the webpage! Learn more about InsertLearning here: 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning. (InsertLearning is a freemium application, but you get your first five lessons for free.)

9. Kahoot!

Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia platform that allows you to create very engaging quizzes for your classroom. Kahoot! is super fun and addictive. You can create your own kahoots, or choose from their library of games. Play live kahoots, in groups, issue challenges, or assign as homework. (FREE)

10. Mentimeter

Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool that allows you to poll your students, check for understanding, or ask students to vote. There are several different types of questions you can create, image-based, multiple choice, scales, open-ended, questions from the audience and more. You can even generate word clouds out of responses! (Freemium, some features are free.)

11. Nearpod

Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons. Nearpod allows you to create and share lessons that sync across devices and encourage student participation, and evaluate student responses through comprehensive reporting. (Freemium, some features are free.)

12. Padlet

Padlet is a super easy to way to create an online bulletin board that allows teachers and students to share and collaborate. What’s great about Padlet is that it offers so much flexibility! It works on any device, and you can share just about any type of information–text, links, upload files, photos, videos, just about any kind of response. There are also many different ways you can design your pages. Customize the background, organize information in new ways. (Free trial available)

13. Pear Deck

Pear Deck is a web-based formative assessment tool that allows you to create interactive lessons using G Suite tools. The Google Slides add-on has quickly become a favorite of mine. (I even teach it in my Google Slides Master Class!) Pear Deck offers a library of free templates that you can use to created interactive assessments in your slides. Pear Deck is also a freemium tool, some features are free, but you can get a 3-month Premium Membership with this special link for Shake Up Learning readers!

14. Plickers

This assessment tool allows teachers to collect on-the-spot formative assessment data without the need to have students use devices or paper and pencil. Teachers create and print specially coded cards that students hold up in class as their response. The teacher uses the Plickers app to scan the cards and collect the data. (Free)

15. Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere is a live audience polling tool that integrates into your presentation. You can ask questions during your lessons, see live data, and reports. (Freemium, free accounts are limited to 25 responses per poll.)

16. Quizizz

Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages. Quizizz works on just about any device and offers a library of public quizzes that teachers can use in their classrooms. They also provide detailed class and student reports. (FREE)

17. Quizlet

Quizlet is a study tool that uses flashcards, games, and other “study sets.” to help students. Quizlet Live is a collaborative quiz game where students are placed into teams to work together to answer the questions and learn together. (FREE)

18. Seesaw

Seesaw is a digital portfolio and communication tool that many teachers love! Seesaw works on any device shared or 1:1. Free for teachers. Teachers create activities for students. Students draw, take pictures and video, and capture their learning in their portfolio. Parents can view their students work and leave comments. (Freemium, some features are free.)

19. Socrative

Socrative is a web-based formative assessment tool that allows teachers to create quizzes, ask questions, collect exit tickets and feedback. You can also create a competitive quiz bowl game, called, “Space Race,” where students compete to get the most answers correct. (Freemium with up to 50 students per session.)

20. Spiral.ac

Spiral.ac is an interactive learning platform with a suite of collaborative applications. Deliver quick fire formative assessments, discussion, teams of students can work together to create presentations, and turn any public video into a live chat with questions and quizzes. (Freemium, some features are free.)

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100 англійських слів для IELTS рівня Advanced

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Англійські іменники для IELTS

1. Aberration – відхилення; затьмарення розуму  

• A childless woman was regarded as an aberration, almost a social outcast.
• In a moment of aberration, she agreed to go with him.

2. Alacrity – готовність, прагнення, спритність

• It was an interesting challenge and I responded with alacrity.

3. Avarice – жадібність

• Avarice makes rich people want to become even richer.

4. Candor – відвертість, прямота

• You ought to treat this matter with candor.

5. Complacency – безтурботність, відсутність пильності

• Doctors have warned against complacency in fighting common diseases.

6. Confidant – задушевний друг, довірена особа

• He is a trusted confidant of the president.

7. Despot – деспот, тиран

• She rules her family like a real despot.

8. Empathy – співчутливість, здатність співпереживати, емпатія

• She had a deep empathy with animals.

9. Enmity – ворожнеча, ненависть

• He had earned their lasting enmity.

10. Gluttony – обжерливість, ненаситність

• Dieting is good insofar as it prevents gluttony.

11. Hypocrisy – лицемірство

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another.

12. Infamy – ганьба, безчестя

• Traitors are held in infamy.

13. Knell – подзвін; ознака кінця

• The arrival of large supermarkets sounded the death knell of many small local shops.

14. Maverick – тот, хто йде проти течії, індивідуаліст

• He’s always been a bit of a maverick.

15. Maxim – вислів, афоризм

• Treating others how I want to be treated is a variation of a maxim I learned as a child.

16. Modicum – трішки, дещиця

• There’s not even a modicum of truth in her statement.

17. Myriad – незліченна безліч

• They face a myriad of problems bringing up children.

18. Nadir – крайній занепад, максимальне зниження

• Company losses reached their nadir in 1992.

19. Novice – початківець, новачок

• I’m a complete novice at skiing.

20. Nuance – відтінок, особливість, нюанс

• The painter has managed to capture every nuance of the woman’s expression.

21. Panacea – панацея, універсальний засіб, ліки від усіх хвороб

• There is no single panacea for the problem of unemployment.

22. Parody – пародія, карикатура, подоба

• This article is a grotesque parody of the truth.

23. Penchant – пристрасть, потяг

• He has a penchant for adopting stray dogs.

24. Perusal – докладне вивчення

• The agreement was signed after careful perusal.

25. Plethora – достаток, надлишок, величезна кількість

• The city faces a plethora of problems.

26. Predilection – схильність, перевага

• Most readers have had a predilection to dismiss the arguments and speculations.

27. Serendipity – прозорливість, осяяння, удача, приємна несподіванка

• We all have experienced the serendipity of relevant information arriving just when we were least expecting it.

28. Sycophant – підлабузник

• The Prime Minister is surrounded by sycophants.

29. Umbrage – образа

• She took umbrage at my remarks about her hair.

30. Zenith – розквіт, найвища точка

• His career reached its zenith in the 1960s.

31. Abhor – відчувати відразу

• I abhor discrimination of any kind.

32. Acquiesce – поступитися, мовчазно погодитися

• Her parents will never acquiesce in such an unsuitable marriage.

33. Appease – умиротворяти, заспокоювати

• The government tried to appease discontented workers.

34. Cajole – лестити, умаслювати

• He really knows how to cajole people into doing what he wants.

35. Chide – картати, бурчати

• He gently chides his students every time they misspelled a word.

36. Coerce – примушувати

• I was coerced into joining the gang.

37. Connive – посібничати, потурати, дивитися крізь пальці

• The prisoners paid the guards to connive at their escape.

38. Debase – знецінювати, знижувати якість

• Some argue that money has debased football.

39. Decry – відкрито засуджувати, критикувати

• Lawyers decried the imprisonment of several journalists.

40. Deride – висміювати, знущатися

• Quite often, his sense of superiority makes him deride her opinions.

41. Embezzle – здійснити розтрату, привласнити

• The cashier embezzled $60,000 from the bank.

42. Extol – звеличувати, хвалити

• She was extolled as a genius.

42. Fabricate – підробляти, вигадувати, фабрикувати; виробляти з частин

• He was late, so he fabricated an excuse to avoid trouble.
• Their plan is to fabricate the house out of synthetic parts.

43. Forsake – залишати, відрікатися

• She will never forsake her vegetarian principles.

44. Inhibit – перешкоджати, уповільнювати

• An unhappy family life may inhibit children’s learning.

45. Refurbish – ремонтувати, підновляти

• Housing Society volunteers refurbish the homes for the elderly.

46. Repudiate – відрікатися, відмовлятися визнати

• The West has chosen to repudiate all responsibility for these refugees.

47. Vex – докучати, дратувати

• It vexed me to think of others gossiping behind my back.

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Англійські прикметники для IELTS

48. Amiable – люб’язний, привітний, доброзичливий

• He is an educated, amiable and decent man.

49. Arcane – таємний, загадковий, відомий тільки присвяченим

• This argument may seem arcane to those not closely involved in the world of finance.

50. Brazen – безсоромний, неприкритий

• He told me a brazen lie.

51. Brusque – грубий, безцеремонний

• His brusque manner hides a shy and sensitive nature.

52. Callous – безсердечний, черствий

• His cruel and callous comments made me shiver.

53. Circumspect – обачний, продуманий

• The banks should have been more circumspect in their dealings.

54. Clandestine – таємний, негласний

• He has been having a clandestine affair with his secretary for three years.

55. Coherent – зв’язний, узгоджений, пропорційний

• The Government lacks a coherent economic policy.

56. Cumulative – накопичувальний, наростаючий

• This drug has a cumulative effect.

57. Deferential – шанобливий, поважний

• She is always extremely deferential to anyone in authority.

58. Demure – скромний, стриманий

• She gave him a demure smile.

59. Diligent – старанний

• Their lawyer was extremely diligent in preparing their case.

60. Elated – радісний, натхненний

• The crowds in the square were elated by the news.

61. Eloquent – красномовний

• I heard him make a very eloquent speech at that dinner.
• The photographs are an eloquent reminder of the horrors of war.

61. Erudite – ерудований, вчений, начитаний

• She could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion.

62. Feral – дикий, звірячий

• He looked at me with a feral grin.

63. Flabbergasted – вражений, як громом уражений

• He was flabbergasted when he heard that his friend had been accused of murder.

64. Fractious – примхливий, дратівливий

• Children become fractious when they are tired.

65. Furtive – прихований, зроблений нишком

• There was something furtive about his actions.

66. Gratuitous – безкоштовний, безплатний; безпричинний, невиправданий

• Gratuitous promises can not be enforced at law.
• There’s too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.

67. Haughty – зарозумілий, гордовитий

• He spoke in a haughty tone.

68. Impeccable – бездоганний

• Her written English is impeccable.

69. Impertinent – нахабний, зухвалий, безцеремонний

• His impertinent remarks wasted valuable time.

70. Implacable – непримиренний, нещадний

• The government faces implacable opposition on the issue of nuclear waste.

71. Impudent – безсоромний

• That impudent boy put his tongue out at me.

72. Incisive – проникливий

• The error was obvious to an incisive mind like his.

73. Indolent – ледачий, повільний, розслаблений

• It can take an indolent teenager hours to get out of bed on a weekend morning.

74. Inept – недоречний, невідповідний, некомпетентний

• It would be politically inept to cut these training programmes now.

75. Innate – вроджений, даний від природи

• Children have an innate ability to learn language.

76. Insatiable – ненаситний, невгамовний

• Most children have an insatiable desire for knowledge.

77. Insular – острівний, властивий островам; вузьких поглядів, недалекий

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.
• In many respects this was a negative, vulgar, insular, and xenophobic political culture.

78. Intrepid – безстрашний, відважний

• To be an astronaut, you must be an intrepid person who craves adventure and is not afraid of heights.

79. Inveterate – закоренілий, завзятий

• I never trust anything he says – the man’s an inveterate liar.

80. Jubilant – радісний

• The fans were in a jubilant mood as they left the stadium.

81. Lithe – граціозний

• He had the lithe, athletic body of a ballet dancer.

82. Lurid – похмурий, моторошний

• The papers gave the lurid details of the murder.

83. Leticulous – ретельний, скрупульозний

• Their room had been prepared with meticulous care.

84. Morose – замкнутий, похмурий

• Since the accident she’s been morose and moody.

85. Nominal – формальний, номінальний

• The king was only the nominal head of the state.

86. Oblivious – той, що забуває, не звертає уваги

• Absorbed in her work, she was totally oblivious of her surroundings.

87. Obsequious – улесливий

• The salesman’s obsequious manner was beginning to irritate me.

88. Obtuse – безглуздий, тупуватий

• He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse.

89. Quaint – химерний, незвичайний, привабливо старомодний

• Grandma lives in a quaint old cottage.

90. Rash – поспішний, необачний

• Don’t make any rash promises that you may regret later.

91. Rife – багатий, сповнений, поширений

• The organization was rife with bribery and corruption.

92. Salient – дуже помітний

• The list is not detailed but tries to focus on the most salient points.

93. Staid – врівноважений, тверезий, статечний

• In an attempt to change its staid image, the newspaper has created a new section aimed at younger readers.

94. Superfluous – надмірний, зайвий

• The crowd was so well-behaved that the police presence was superfluous.

95. Taciturn – мовчазний, небагатослівний

• The ship’s captain was a taciturn man who spoke only to give orders.

96. Truculent – агресивний, грубий, войовничий

• She wondered why her son held such a truculent attitude towards his new classmates.

97. Venerable – поважний, освячений століттями

• This bank is a venerable financial institution.
• This view reflects a venerable tradition that goes back to Adam Smith.

98. Voracious – ненаситний, жадібний

• Joseph was a voracious book collector.

99. Vociferous – гучний, галасливий

• The minority population became more vociferous in its demands.

100. Wanton – необґрунтований, невиправданий; безпутний

• The Home Secretary said that he would not tolerate wanton destruction and violence.

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