Sunday, March 11, 2012

Using the clickers to support formative assessments

I use the clickers daily in my classroom.  The students continue to be more engaged in their learning and I find the collected data to be very helpful in guiding my instruction. 
After our last session I wanted to figure out a way to efficiently use the "question series" format.  We have been doing several MAP math practice sets of questions.  With the first two I used the clickers with the whole class and we went through one question at a time looking at the data together as a group.  They were very interested in the bar graphs that displayed their choices and we had great discussions as we reviewed.  They were very excited and motivated when we had 100% agreement.  However, this takes a lot of time.  So, I decided I would make up the question series and keep it short and simple on my prep end.  All I did was write question 1-8 and then I put in the correct answer choices.  The students were able to enter their answers very quickly once they completed their work on paper.  I loved the data that I received after I exported it to the excel spreadsheet!  Now my groupings and focus for my next review lessons are at my fingertips!  As we continue to practice over the next several weeks I plan to do this again.  I will save these flip charts with the questions for next year, as we will probably use these same review assessments again.  I found it very easy to look at a copy of the practice assessment while I looked at the excel data.  

I will need support with saving the flip charts, because I no longer see the directions page that I created.  I do have the results, though.  





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