Informal and Formal Assessments Using Socrative
What is Socrative?
Socrative is a free, online student response system that can be used by almost any tool connected to the Internet. This website offers teachers multiple different ways to gather data, information, and student feedback. Check out the Introduction Video to gain a better understanding!
Students like Socrative because it's engaging, and teachers like it because it is fairly simple to use! Socrative allows student responses to be viewed in various ways, including multiple choice, true/false, or short-answer. Every time students share responses on any Socrative form, the results are instant and can be viewed by the entire class. This is a simple way to check-for-understanding, stimulate discussion, assess student knowledge, and engage users in a different form of questioning/answering. Below you can see the set-up of the various student-response options.
Give me an example.
One way I have used Socrative in my class is by posing an open-ended discussion question that could have multiple different answers. I post this question on the board or verbally ask the question aloud. Students then go to m.socrative.com (the student response site) and enter the teacher's room number. This is per-determined when you create a teacher account, and it remains the same every time you use the same log-in.
Students then type/text their responses to the question posed and click submit when they have finished.
My favorite aspect of the short-answer responses is the ability to send all of the student responses to their devices, where they can then "vote" on the best answer. I really like to use this as a discussion starter and as a way to share the multiple different perspectives in my classroom. It's also great for students to see how other students write, form their thoughts, and reflect on questions asked.
Want more ideas?
The best place to look for more ideas on how to incorporate the different functions of Socrative is on their "How it Works" page. This website will walk you through all of your options and give easy-to-follow instructions on how to use each tool.
Additionally, you can check out a blog post by Bradley Lands, on his blog "The Landscape of Learning." Here he details 13 different ways he uses Socrative for formative assessments, and he even includes a video of a specific use in his classroom.
Lastly, take a look at the different blog posts on "Free Technology for Teachers." In a guest post from Lynda Hall, "Gathering Feedback with Socrative Classroom Activities," she details how Socrative allows her to gather feedback from her students. If you're looking for something more creative, competitive, and engaging, try using the Space Race option. In the post "Stage a Space Race in Socrative", Richard Byrne shares his experiences with the Space Race quiz competition.
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