Week 14 - Response to Assessments Using Socrative

One of the biggest struggles for music teachers is finding tools to help with assessment. In the blog I am responding to this week regarding assessments I found one tool that seems to be pretty promising. Socrative is an online tool that will work great because it is free, students do not need email addresses to access it, and it can be accessed from multiple devices.

Socrative

• Create a free account and name your classroom
• Create a test that can include images, multiple choice questions, and short answer questions.
• You can use this for pre- and post-testing (for SGOs and SLOs) as well as exit tickets.
• Launch your test from your teacher account
• Students go to socrative.com (or access the iOS app depending on the device) and click on student login
• Students enter your classroom name

  

  Data from a pre-test in Socrative

• They then enter their names
• Then they begin the test
• On your device, you can see the answers as they come in live
• Once finished, click finish from the teacher account
• You now have the data to share with admin, download as an excel file, and more.

I look forward to using this technology in my classes for quick pre and post assessments, with very quick results!