Teaching our students is important but it is just as important to check for understanding. As teachers, we must determine who understands the concept of a lesson, and who may need enrichment or intervention. Formative assessment occurs while teachers are walking around and monitoring student discourse and reviewing their classwork during class. Is it possible to use technological tools to check for understanding in meaningful, and purposeful ways? This article provides some strategies and tools to help you with using technology to evaluate and assess student learning. Teachers should embed questions within their instruction. Nearpod is an interactive presentation builder that lets you embed questions into your lesson. It is great for use in the classroom and also to help facilitate professional developments. Teachers can present a poll at the beginning of a lesson or put a short-response question in the middle of their lesson or presentation. Embedding questions is an easy way to ensure you are formatively assessing students throughout the lesson. I used a lot of PowerPoint presentations in the past. Teachers can upload old presentations into Nearpod and embed questions, or they can use the ready-to-use lessons, which have questions embedded in them already. Teachers should introduce Screencasts to students. Screencasts records what is happening on the screen of a device, and also transmits audio. When teachers allow students to make a movie of their thinking, they have a direct link to the student's thought process. When teachers require students to show work on assignments or assessments, it is sometimes difficult to see their thought process. Screencast lets you observe what a student is working on and what they are thinking as they verbalize their steps on the screencast. Explain Everything is a tool that’s perfect for creating screencasts on iPads or Chromebooks. Students can work independently, in pairs, or in groups to record their thinking. Virtual Exit Slips are a great way to check for understanding at the end of a lesson. These allow students to respond to a prompt, answer a quick question, or pose a question of their own. This will provide teachers with information they can use to plan and scaffold the next lesson. Google Classroom offers the use of exit tickets on their platform. Technology affords us so many opportunities to check for understanding in the classroom through evaluation and assessment. Teachers must remember to set and enforce norms for using technology tools in the classroom, no matter when it is used in the lesson. Here are seven quick tips you can use to assess student understanding in an Online class. Subscribe here to get more content like this!
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