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Formative assessment in the classroom is bigger than ever. As Dylan William put it, “When implemented well, formative assessment effectively doubles the speed of student learning.” Unfortunately, most teacher rely solely on quizzes to check for understanding. Now every teacher can build a toolkit full of free digital apps to assess students in fun and engaging ways.
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20 Free Tech Tools To Assess Students

Published on Nov 23, 2015

Formative assessment in the classroom is bigger than ever. As Dylan William put it, “When implemented well, formative assessment effectively doubles the speed of student learning.” Unfortunately, most teacher rely solely on quizzes to check for understanding. Now every teacher can build a toolkit full of free digital apps to assess students in fun and engaging ways.

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20 Free Tech Tools to Assess Students

Rita Phillips, Ed.M.
Formative assessment in the classroom is bigger than ever. As Dylan William put it, “When implemented well, formative assessment effectively doubles the speed of student learning.” Unfortunately, most teacher rely solely on quizzes to check for understanding. Now every teacher can build a toolkit full of free digital apps to assess students in fun and engaging ways.

Tools to Give Students

A Voice

Linoit

A Digital Canvas with Sticky Notes
Photo by Learn4Life

Padlet

A Digital Canvas with More Than Just Sticky Notes
Photo by a415.nslapaz

Answer Garden

A Garden of Responses

Today's Meet

A Back Channel in the Classroom
Photo by clagnut

The Answer Pad

Students Show Real Time Responses
Photo by humbert15

Polling Tools

Photo by :Duncan

Participoll

An Add-on to PowerPoint

Poll Everywhere

Add Polls to PowerPoint Lectures
Photo by KCIvey

Flisti

Make a Poll in Minutes

Go Soapbox

A Must Have Tool for Class Lectures & Discussions

Games

To check for Understanding
Photo by Great Beyond

Kahoot

Gamify Quizzes

FlipQuiz

An Easy-to-Make Jeopardy-Like Game
Photo by andyputnam

Connect Fours

Help Students Connect Concepts
Photo by jeff_golden

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

A Competitive Review Game
Photo by Domiriel

Video Quizzes

Check What Students Learn From Videos

Blubbr

Easily Add Questions to Videos
Photo by Vermin Inc

TedEd

Force Students to Dig Deeper

Zaption

Add Pictures, Text, Drawing Tools, & Quizzes to Videos
Photo by 0olong

Quiz Tools

Photo by albertogp123

Socrative

Easily Create Quizzes & Download Results
Photo by lentina_x

Potpourri

Photo by hjl

Formative

Build Classes, Create Questions, Watch & Score in Real Time
Photo by Murfomurf

Want to Learn More?

If you want to learn more, and to get your free copy of "Tech Tools 4 the 21st Century Classroom Task Lists," go to: freedigitaltools4teachers.com

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