Assessment Teacher Tools! by Miss. Davis

The AAC Website

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-01-03 18:12:51 UTC

This website is really great for rubrics, classroom materials, and professional development.
Has some really KEY resources for scaffolding materials in the classroom.
Includes cost-effective, virtual and informational professional development sessions aimed to improve your teaching.

Magic School AI

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-03-25 16:40:08 UTC

This online app includes in-depth and AI-generated content to help you build assessments, test questions or rubrics while considering your age and grade group. The Magic School can generate outcome-based assessment questions based on content, stories or YouTube videos.

Eduaide.Ai

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-03-25 16:42:48 UTC

This online app involves using artificial intelligence to help you build lessons, assessments, and study guides or questions to help you along the way in your planning and assessment.

QuestionWell

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-03-25 16:49:26 UTC

QuestionWell for teachers is a website dedicated directly towards creating outcome based questions for assessment. This app is great for creating source-based questions as well as outcomes. You can select the grade and outcome you are wanting students to meet and it will build questions targeting the age and grade of your students! You can also paste texts, or pick YouTube videos into the question generator to narrow down the specificity of your questions.

Resource building

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:23:35 UTC

Diffit is an instructional, artificial intelligence website that educators can use to create 'just right' resources to cater to different reading levels for students. This website allows you to put the grade level of students to gather useful and appropriate resources for students based on topics presented in class! We have adapted reading passages, Key vocabulary words and multiple-choice questions for educators to utilize.

Integrated Lessons / Assessment

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:32:10 UTC

EdPuzzle is a resource that was used within my practicum classroom to do formative assessments for students. EdPuzzle is an interactive video lesson resource that can be used by all students in a non-formal formative way to assess student knowledge. I think this resource is particularly helpful when reviewing before a quiz, or for leaving open-ended questioning for students doing a movie/book study. I would have liked to use this resource during my science unit in my sixth-grade classroom. I think having students watch a video on forces and following the concepts leave questions for students to respond to!

Rubric Building

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:34:35 UTC

This document is essentially a 'cheat' sheet for rubric building in the sixth grade for the Alberta Program of Studies. I received this rubric from my mentor teacher in response to a question about rubric building. I have yet to use this resource, but I know it would be helpful if I were to be in a sixth-grade class. The resource also mentions EMAB and how we benchmark student achievement based on the outcomes we receive. This rubric building sheet is specifically targeting Language Arts.

The University of Alberta Rubric Building

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:36:46 UTC

The University of Alberta Centre for Teaching and Learning created a website that offers insight into how to create effective rubrics, how to align assessments and rubrics with outcomes and student learnings, writing single-point rubrics. I think this website offers a comprehensive look into rubric building and is made in Alberta!

What are rubrics and how do they affect student learning?

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:41:07 UTC

This website is from Turnitin.com and explains the importance of rubrics, and the crucial pieces of building and creating rubrics centred around our outcomes. This article says that rubrics can help align our content with what students need to know, show students where they are at in their learning journey, clarify learning goals and improve feedback to students.

Gimkit - Formative Assessment

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:43:46 UTC

This is an interactive game show for students to complete questions. Similar to Kahoot, GimKit is interactive and includes in-game incentives if they complete questions correctly. Students can work at home, at school, individually or collaboratively on the assessments. I think this is a fantastic way to check student learning and see where they are at in their understanding of content!

Create and Track Assessment - Edualistic (Pear Assessment)

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:51:59 UTC

This resource is a great way for educators to track assessments, and post them widely for other educators to view. Although it is an American website it can be beneficial for teachers to share resources, track formative and summative assessments and create assessments based on content. It can be adapted to fit in with the Alberta Program of Studies.

FlipGrid - Respond, Create and Track.

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:54:16 UTC

FlipGrid is a resource that was used often in my practicum class during Language Arts and Social Studies. This is a great way to have students verbally explain answers to questions, summative or formative to gauge where they are at in their journey. I particularly liked using this for students as I had some students who could not write answers on paper, or in a document so having this resource to let students discuss their thinking and still complete the assignment is perfect for differentiation and inclusivity.

Formative Assessment on the Go!

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:56:25 UTC

Formative is a free online assessment tool that teachers can use to pick from pre-made assessments, or create their own from scratch! This assessment tool offers students data for them to track student performance and offers an insightful look into progress for educators to track learning and understanding!

Jamboard

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 19:58:50 UTC

Jamboard is an interactive tool that I used in my practicum to do exit tickets and entry tickets for students during our science unit! I found this resource to be easily accessible and easy for students to use, while also being the perfect way to have students answer questions after content is presented. My students enjoyed being able to write down their thoughts to questions (pre-made) about the content that we discussed earlier in class. It was a quick way for me to provide feedback to students and engage in discussions with them.

Mentimeter

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 20:00:48 UTC

Mentimeter is a tool that you can place directly into your slide deck while presenting content to students. I particularly like this website/tool for gauging student success, and having them do interactive polls during class to check for understanding. I usually used the thumbs up, middle or down method in my classroom during practicum, so this is just a way to bump up those formative checks and engage all students.

AAC - Assessment building

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 20:02:50 UTC

Although this page is under construction, this piece of the Alberta Assessment Consortium website helps educators find ways to align their summative assessments to the content. It discusses the importance of authentic and reliable assessments or revising your current assessments to make sure they align with outcomes and what you want students to know.

Tech-Friendly Formative Assessment

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 20:05:46 UTC

Edutopia cultivates meaningful and reliable articles for educators to check in on their practice and where they are heading. This specific article discusses how to harness effective and reliable tech-friendly formative assessment tools to help students and educators alleviate the technology fear. This specific article talks about gathering formative assessment tools, planning with a purpose and where to go next once you have your formative assessment figured out.

Padlet

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 20:09:10 UTC

I love padlet for formative assessment and check-ins! This website and interactive benchmarking website can have students fill out polls, multiple choice questions, exit tickets or create a board to fill with fun content ideas. I utilized Padlet often in my practicum classroom to help with exit tickets, and interactive polls and to find out where students are at in their understanding of content.

Student Questioning

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 20:33:16 UTC

This Edutopia article discusses how to teach students to ask productive questions. As educators, we know how crucial it is to ask questions that prompt deeper learning, challenge traditional knowledge on a topic or clarify questions to better enhance understanding. This article provides educators with insight on how to push students to want to know more about topics, how to improve ideas and understandings and express curiosity in the classroom. When we shift our thinking from "Do you have any questions" to "What kinds of questions do we have" we can put aside surface-level questions and open the door for higher level learning and curiosity to foster curiosity, comprehension and understanding.

Deeper learning through questioning

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 20:37:04 UTC

This document unpacks how educators can foster deeper learning through questioning. When we ask general and vague questions we are essentially asking students to recall information that we have talked about in class. The student is not critically thinking about the content and how to interpret the content to offer a variety of answers cultivated through their thinking process. This article speaks on the importance of KWL strategies, reciprocal teaching standards and how to foster classroom inquiry and discussions based on content through a different thought process than regurgitation.

HOTS questioning

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 20:38:49 UTC

This article is about asking effective questions by asking students HOTS questions. HOTS questions expand student knowledge, reflect on understanding and consider their thinking process when going through content.

Cheat Sheet for Assessment Methods

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 20:42:55 UTC

I received this cheat sheet for choosing assessment methods that incorporate the type of thinking we want students to exemplify, the performance verbs from the program of studies outcomes, and provide strong to poor methods of assessment to dissect each of the outcomes and how to foster student understanding. When we know where to go with our assessment, and what the verbs are in our learning outcomes we can then move into building and constructing questions, and the test to properly and effectively assess students.

Indigenous Curriculum Connections

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-04 20:44:46 UTC

This cheat sheet is effective in finding and incorporating Indigenous pieces into their instruction. The entire document is filled with effective and reliable curriculum connections for assessment, building questions and content to incorporate and seamlessly structure Indigenous pieces into our curriculum.

Test Taking Strategies (for students!)

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-06 05:17:15 UTC

Although the speaker of this video is rather monotone, I think this video speaks on some wonderful strategies to provide to students before taking a test/exam. The tips discussed within the video are helpful for students who may struggle with test anxiety, or find multiple choice tests challenging.

Formative Assessment to Game-Based Learning

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-06 05:20:32 UTC

Edutopia does it again with their helpful teacher tips! This video shows formative assessment in a completely different light. In the video we have first hand accounts from students explaining how games help them learn and retain information better and how we as educators can embed formative assessment into our instruction through games!

Station Rotation!

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-06 05:22:39 UTC

Group assessment can be challenging if we do not know how to format it. In this video we see what is called station rotation where students are assessed individually, but in groups! This way we are gathering effective information about each students learning but in a completely different format.

In Class Grouping

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-06 05:25:15 UTC

This document from the University of Tennessee discusses the importance of group work assessment, and how in a post pandemic world we as educators can still remain conscious of distance while still utilizing group work and assessment.

Launching your Summative Assessment

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-06 05:31:53 UTC

This video is a great recap of what summative assessments are, how we can create meaningful and reliable questions to reflect student knowledge and how to effectively administer summative assessments in the classroom! Bonus points for the silly skits they play in the beginning of each video.

Bloom's, Bloom's, Bloom's!

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-06 05:36:05 UTC

This article provides some key points for educators to use to ensure they are creating effective test questions. There is points made about Bloom's Taxonomy which is a great reference when creating assessments for students.

Station Assessment

TeachwithMissDavis — 2024-04-06 05:39:00 UTC

This document I received in my EDUC 3108 course provides a complete list of math websites that educators can utilize to do formative assessment for students. These websites can help educators find out where students are at in their mathematics journey and provide feedback to strengthen instruction and assessment.