Student-Made Formative Assessments: 12 Days of Techmas, Day 6

Using technology is not always about cool, new apps -- sometimes, it's about creative uses of the tools you already have. Today's tip is a new use of an old tool: using Google Forms for formative assessments.

12 Days of Techmas, Day 6: Student-Made Formative Assessments

Small-scale formative assessments are important checking in on student learning. A common use of formative assessments is for vocabulary review or basic factual understanding and recall. Google Forms is a great tool for this, especially now that Google has added a Quiz feature that corrects students responses. 

On the other hand, who wants to make a whole bunch of tiny vocab quizzes? Like you don't have enough to do already, right? So today's tip is a way to use technology to flip the responsibility: 

** Why not have your students make the quizzes? 

Students can easily make Google Forms, too, and the process of making a 5 question multiple-choice vocab quiz helps reinforce the vocab as they are making the quiz! Students can make formative quizzes as extra credit, or they can form "formative teams" of four students who take turns making the quizzes.

This way, the formative assessments are helping both you and the students, and it's no more work for you!