Efficient Formative Assessments

I wanted to share something that I helped one of my teachers create for her classes as an Exit Ticket. I thought she had a great idea for an easy and efficient formative assessment using a combination of Google Forms and Google Docs.

Her idea was to create a Google Form for each of her four Economics classes so that she could see their responses without having to create a brand new form for each class every time she wanted to give them an Exit Ticket.

For the sake of efficiency, we created one Google Form to start. We named it for the first section of Economics that she teaches. The form is one statement:

Students then have an empty text box in which to write their response. That's it. That's the entire form. From there we changed the settings to collect student email addresses (so that the teacher can see who participated and who didn't). Then we used Google's option to duplicate the form. We duplicated the same form three times and renamed it according to each section that she teaches. This keeps all of her classes' responses separated.

For the last step, we created a blank Google Doc. Using a large font size, the teacher typed her first Exit Ticket question across the top of the page. Below the question, we typed the names of the four sections of Economics classes and linked each name to the corresponding Google Form.

Now, from the students' perspective, they can access this Google Doc through their LMS, read the question at the top of the page, click their class name and submit their answer to the form.

From the teacher's perspective, all she needs to do is change the question in the Google Doc and it will automatically update what the students see. If she wants to facilitate a discussion, she can display the students responses and talk about some of them with the class, or she can save them as a spreadsheet to keep track of what students are completing their work.

I thought she had a great idea and I was glad that I could help her make it happen!