Formative Assessment

This week in EDIS 5070, we learned about different technology alternatives for formative assessment. I was originally overwhelmed by nearpod, but I got the hang of it, and incorporated it into one of the lessons I taught!

Technology: Nearpod (used to make the quiz), R/RStudio, ggplot2 (used to make the figures for the quiz)

Link to Proficiency: https://app.nearpod.com/?pin=C80AEE0DE909836822E9092688F327AF-1&&utm_source=link

https://github.com/katherine-taylor/geometry-figures

Targeted Learners/Content area: High school geometry (9-10 graders)

Lesson objectives: Review knowledge of coordinate transformations

Lesson context: This nearpod would serve as a formative assessment for students before a mastery check on transformations. Students would get practice with figuring out the transformation used and reviewing the coordinate plane vocabulary.

Goal of technology use: The goal of the technology use is for students to test their own knowledge of transformations on their own time, and to provide instant feedback to the students. While these questions could be given on paper, the questions are much clearer in color, and the teacher cannot typically give feedback that quickly.

Brief description of how technology will be used with students: Students would work individually to complete the nearpod formative assessment. While I only included a few questions on the assessment, there could be more questions, and students could create their own quiz questions to test each other in nearpod. Students could also compete in a leaderboard if I turned it on, but they might start guessing at the answers instead of actually solving the problems.