Assessment FOR Learning and Google Forms

Your G-Suite has a really great tool called Google Forms which allows you to easily create questionnaires and even assessments to use in your classroom. Google forms can even allow for collaboration between teachers.

Now that you know about Google Forms and share them, what will you create?

Think about how valuable formative quizzes that grade themselves could be for gathering data for your PLCs!

But if we are truly going to become transformative teachers we need to go beyond using formative assessments to using assessments for learning.

Think about this a moment. There is great power in goal setting, and you may already do this with students, but are you informing students about their progress towards their goals. By making classroom assessments student centered you can build their confidence, help them take responsibility for their own learning, and go on to become lifelong learners.

Looking at the T-TESS Rubric used to measure teacher effectiveness in Texas the distinguished teacher uses “Formal and informal assessments to monitor the progress of all students, shares appropriate diagnostic, formative and summative assessment data with students to engage them in self-assessment, build awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses and track their own progress.” According to Rick Stiggins, president of the Assessment Training Institute Foundation; “….the effect of assessment for learning, as it plays out in the classroom, is that students keep learning and remain confident that they can continue to learn at productive levels if they keep trying to learn. In other words, students don’t give up in frustration or hopelessness.”

You can use Google Forms to create assessments that allow feedback. Turn on the ‘Make this a quiz’ button, and allow students to see their responses.

Now you can truly start to transform your classroom.

Live well & Teach well,

Bruce

References

Stiggins, R.

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