Quizalize: A new formative assessment tool for your toolbox
New formative assessment tools come out so quickly, it's hard to keep track of them. While they are all great in their own right, and all give you some improved functionality in terms of data collection and disaggregation, each of them handles data differently. Quizalize is a new tool tool you'll want to add to your toolbox, if for no other reason than it has the ability to help you ability group your kids.
Much like other web based tools, the teacher creates questions and answers on quizalize.com, and each class and quiz is assigned a unique code. On class day, students visit zzish.com and are prompted for their class code. Much like quiziz, students are allowed to proceed at their own pace and points are awarded for correct answers and for the speed students enter those correct answers.
As students answer, there is auditory reinforcement as well. Correct answers are met with a bell and students are given data on their success at the bottom of the screen.
Much like other web based tools, a phone or tablet can be used just as successfully as a computer.
The real power of the tool lies in the the data it gives you. The thing I think is worthy of merit is the "needs help" group in red. Armed with this information, the teacher immediately knows which student needs further enrichment in that particular skill in order to be successful. The "almost there" category gives you insight into who the "bubble kids" might be and how large that group might be, which can inform decisions on how thoroughly a topic might need to be retaught (if at all).
As is often the case with gamification in the classroom, many students will want to "retake" the assessment and see if they can improve upon their score. This sort of unstated underscoring of growth mindset, to me, is the biggest benefit of these competitive/gamified tools.
To get started, visit https://www.quizalize.com/ and set up a free teacher account.
Special thanks go to Gina Bergman of Watauga Middle School and her students who hosted me and demonstrated this tool.
Much like other web based tools, the teacher creates questions and answers on quizalize.com, and each class and quiz is assigned a unique code. On class day, students visit zzish.com and are prompted for their class code. Much like quiziz, students are allowed to proceed at their own pace and points are awarded for correct answers and for the speed students enter those correct answers.
The real power of the tool lies in the the data it gives you. The thing I think is worthy of merit is the "needs help" group in red. Armed with this information, the teacher immediately knows which student needs further enrichment in that particular skill in order to be successful. The "almost there" category gives you insight into who the "bubble kids" might be and how large that group might be, which can inform decisions on how thoroughly a topic might need to be retaught (if at all).
As is often the case with gamification in the classroom, many students will want to "retake" the assessment and see if they can improve upon their score. This sort of unstated underscoring of growth mindset, to me, is the biggest benefit of these competitive/gamified tools.
To get started, visit https://www.quizalize.com/ and set up a free teacher account.
Special thanks go to Gina Bergman of Watauga Middle School and her students who hosted me and demonstrated this tool.
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