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Formative Assessment Tools and Free Student Response Systems

Permalink: http://goo.gl/zQO6IC – Updated 5/11/19 Slide Deck: Instead of purchasing expensive and dedicated student response systems from SMART or Promethean, here are some alternatives around for formative assessment in the area of web-based classroom ‘clickers.’ If you have access to iPads, Chromebooks, or even student cell phones, you can utilize some great (and FREE) web based student response and… Continue reading Formative Assessment Tools and Free Student Response Systems

NEW SAGE Benchmark Assessment Options

Permalink: https://goo.gl/2xtXG5 The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) has released some new options for Utah Core-subject teachers for formative assessment to give them better data and to help prepare students for the SAGE Summative Assessments. SAGE Benchmark exams are shorter than the Full- or Class-Period Interim assessments, consisting of approximately 20 questions. They are available… Continue reading NEW SAGE Benchmark Assessment Options

Using Google Classroom and Chromebooks? Two New Tools To Make Life Better

At the ISTE 2016 Conference in Denver this week, Google announced a few new tools for teachers using Google Classroom and Chromebooks that will make life much easier and better. First, Google has added a new Chrome app for teachers called Google Cast for Education, which allows students to broadcast their Chromebook screens to the teacher’s computer,… Continue reading Using Google Classroom and Chromebooks? Two New Tools To Make Life Better

URSA 2015

Thank you so much for joining me for one (or more) of my sessions at the 2015 URSA Conference. All of the presentation information, links and resources for my sessions are linked from this page (and from the URSA tab above). If you have any questions or comments during or after the conference, you can connect… Continue reading URSA 2015

53 Ways to Check for Understanding – Formative Assessment Ideas from Edutopia

With Utah’s new SAGE Assessments and the SAGE Formative system, formative assessment has been on my mind quite a bit this year. Since it’s not always easy (or even possible some days) to get your students into a computer lab, you can’t always use these online tools to gauge your student’s learning and comprehension. Thanks… Continue reading 53 Ways to Check for Understanding – Formative Assessment Ideas from Edutopia