Google Forms & Formative Assessments

Google Forms & Formative Assessments - More Football for Elementary School Kids 

I remember using formative assessments back when I was teaching Special Education Algebra at Tallwood High School in Virginia Beach. My co-teacher and I had the students complete a 4 question exit ticket on Google Forms pertaining to the lesson that was presented that day. 

We learned that formative assessments are a great way to gauge what students know, without grading them. It is a way for teachers to watch the students perform, demonstrate when necessary, and students to get better at what is being taught.  

For teachers, they benefit from formative assessments in many ways. This type of assessment provides teachers with information about what the student knows. Instead of grading and counting the assessment against then, the teacher can use this information to better help the student learn. Formative assessments help teachers determine if more instructions on that particular topic are needed. 

For students, formative assessments are a way to feel less pressure when taking assessments. They are not graded. Teachers simply wanted to see what they have learned. This type of assessment helps students enhance their performance when taking assessments that are graded. 

For my Google Form, I decided to create an exit ticket for a lesson of offense in football. I enjoyed creating this assignment. Five multiple-choice questions about football. Three asked about offensive positions, while the other two pertained more to NFL football - wanted to have some fun question in there to test the student's knowledge of professional football.

For the fun questions, I decided to use images from Google as the answer options. It was easy to search and insert the images. I thought that was pretty cool.




Of all the assignments we have done so far this semester, I enjoyed this one the most. The reason for that is because I can see how students and teachers can benefit from a formative assessment use through Google Forms. This allows students to be comfortable and enjoy an assessment that isn't graded while providing feedback to teachers on what the students learned from the lesson taught that say. 

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  1. Rod CarnillMarch 8, 2020 at 4:53 PM

    I appreciate you sharing your experience with the use of formative assessments. You make several good points about why formative assessments are important in the learning process. Students seem to do better on summative or graded assessments when formative assessments have been used during the unit of study.

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