Did you know that you can use Google Docs and create a Google Form to easily assess students and gather their information in real-time to be looked over. Within Google Docs click Create and then click on Form. When you click on Form it takes you to the editing page. Within the editing page you can add questions with question types ranging from text, paragraph text, multiple choice, checkboxes, choose from a list, scale and grid. You can make certain questions required and certain questions optional. You can title the form and add a paragraph helping people fill out the form or showcasing the purpose of the form. You can change the theme of your form to add some background color or templates to it. Lastly the form automatically provides you with a live web site link that you can provide to your students to be able take a 2 questions formative assessment, 5 question pre-assessment or unlimited question test.
Once the students have completed the form you can then see the live real-time results in a spreadsheet format with each student's answers individually located in separate rows and each question individually located in separate columns. At anytime you can also uncheck the Accepting Responses choice to keep the form but to NOT make a live form to be able to work on. Lastly you can Show Summary of Responses which is a great tool to see all of the students responses or answer choices as a whole. This tool is especially effective if scale questions are provided ranging from 1 to 5 because this tool would then show how many total students chose 5, how many total students chose 4 and so on all the way down to 1.
A very good Google Doc tool to use all of the time for the occasional pre-assessment, post-assessment, formative or summative assessments.
Be sure to check out the flubaroo Script for google forms. It will automatically score the test, giving you a score for each student, as well as show you how students did on each specific question.
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