Student Response System

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You've just finished the day's content. Your students are looking at you with long, tired faces. Its obvious to everyone in the room you need to wake them up! Quick! How can you get them engaged while assessing their level of understanding? Your ground breaking idea needs to be educational. You're hoping the engagement will not require extensive work on your part, yet will provide critical information about student level of understanding. Get moving!! You still have seven minutes to use and the kids are fading fast!

Try using Student Response System as a formative assessment.

Taking a Closer Look at:

Quizizz

Socrative

Kahoot

Quiz Socket

Student Response System (SRS) is a great technology tool to gather data of students’ understanding of a lesson. In order for SRS to work the teacher will need some kind of software or web based program activated on their computer. Students will need some kind of wireless device and the ability to pull up a web page. A short formative assessment is started on the teacher’s computer and students have the opportunity to answer the questions; multiple choice, true/false, or open ended. Depending on the program chosen by the teacher, students can either work at their own pace through the question set or the questions are provided to the entire class. 
Typically, an option with SRS programs is mixing up questions and answers, limiting the amount of shared information students might try during their assessment. The results of your assessment can easily be exported to Excel Spreadsheets and can sometimes be shared to your Google Drive Folder as well. Depending on the settings you’ve identified, students may or may not receive immediate feedback about their answers.

There are many ways SRS can be used in your classrooms including:

• Preassessment
• Interest assessments
• Short homework quizzes
• Games
• Group challenges
• Reading guides

The included highlighted favorite SRS do not require apps or log ins for students. Each is a web based program and is user friendly. Some even have assessments that are public, which can be duplicated and modified. You could potentially have a 20 question review activity in five minutes.

No matter what software or program you use, students will be engaged as they work through your assessment.

Check out the comparison of these tools. Think about how you might be able to use them in your own classroom.

A larger version is available here.

Check out this tutorial for setting up a Socrative assessment.

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Tips and Tricks for using Student Response System:

• Start small, maybe three or five questions based on one lesson
• Embrace the technology, students will be amazed at what they can do on their phones
• Students like immediate feedback, limit the questions you'll need to grade by hand
• Use for review and help students develop skills like the narrowing of potential answers
• Don't overuse one program, students will become burnt out and no longer look forward to using it
• Make sure to use the data to determine the readiness of your students - it also might be beneficial to show students averages and how classes compare if it's an option