This assignment actually came at a perfect time in relation with one of my other classes. My assessment class actually just began to go over formative assessments and my big takeaway from that lecture if that formative assessment are "for learning" while summative assessments are "of learning". What that really means is that formative assessments inform instruction and are given before or during a unit to evaluate where students are at and what they know or may have missed during previous instruction and adapt the planning and instruction to reflect that.
I chose to create an pre-test type of formative assessment that would evaluate where the students are at on their knowledge of the topic. I also decided to include an affective assessment portion on the last page to see how confidently students answered the questions and to try to gauge possible interests that I could exploit during the unit to better engage them. I also asked for student feedback in order to evaluate my own assessment and make sure that it was clear so that I was measuring what I wanted to measure and I was not getting wrong answers not because they did not know the answer, but because the question or the format made the answer unclear.
I think one of the most important things for improving your own assessments is not just giving them and moving on, but really looking at them and analyzing them and figuring out what you can do better and seeing where students' assessments may not have reflected their knowledge, but may have been skewed because of unfair or poorly worded questions. Then, obviously, adjusting scores accordingly. I strongly feel that feedback also needs to come from students and colleagues and not just your own evaluation/
That is my reasoning for why I created this particular assessment.
As for using Google Forms, I found it easy overall. I had actually just created an affective assessment in the class that I mentioned above so I was recently familiar with Google Forms. I decided to add in pictures along with the animals listed as responses so that students that might not be familiar with the specific animal would be able to look at characteristics that they know would fit into a certain taxonomic group. That was easy to figure out. Adding the images inside the questions was a little more difficult. I had actually added them separately and found out how to insert them accidentally when I clicked my mouse without meaning to and had to go back and fix that.
I had to look up how to create an answer key for the quiz. Initially, I had used a template to build a quiz and the answer key option was built in, but using the template proved to be more difficult in this case for me than starting from scratch so I had scrapped it and started over and could not figure out on my own why there was no answer key option. It was not a difficult fix, but also not a blatantly obvious correction.
I plan to use Google Forms a lot in class (as long as it is a reasonable option for my situation). I think my favorite feature that I had on the affective assessment that I created was that it automatically populated the results into a pie chart so that I could visually see how the respondents answered my questions and quickly see in which areas there could be potential issues that would need to be planned for and/or addressed. Since no one has taken this quiz yet, I am not sure how the results would be generated because I included short answer and checkbox questions along with the multiple choice (which is all I used in the other one). So, I actually am interested in that feedback if anyone would like to take it. Below is my formative assessment. This is also a link to it, if that would be easier to take it: https://forms.gle/7TTKBAxzgGqebUkx5
Thanks!
I chose to create an pre-test type of formative assessment that would evaluate where the students are at on their knowledge of the topic. I also decided to include an affective assessment portion on the last page to see how confidently students answered the questions and to try to gauge possible interests that I could exploit during the unit to better engage them. I also asked for student feedback in order to evaluate my own assessment and make sure that it was clear so that I was measuring what I wanted to measure and I was not getting wrong answers not because they did not know the answer, but because the question or the format made the answer unclear.
I think one of the most important things for improving your own assessments is not just giving them and moving on, but really looking at them and analyzing them and figuring out what you can do better and seeing where students' assessments may not have reflected their knowledge, but may have been skewed because of unfair or poorly worded questions. Then, obviously, adjusting scores accordingly. I strongly feel that feedback also needs to come from students and colleagues and not just your own evaluation/
That is my reasoning for why I created this particular assessment.
As for using Google Forms, I found it easy overall. I had actually just created an affective assessment in the class that I mentioned above so I was recently familiar with Google Forms. I decided to add in pictures along with the animals listed as responses so that students that might not be familiar with the specific animal would be able to look at characteristics that they know would fit into a certain taxonomic group. That was easy to figure out. Adding the images inside the questions was a little more difficult. I had actually added them separately and found out how to insert them accidentally when I clicked my mouse without meaning to and had to go back and fix that.
I had to look up how to create an answer key for the quiz. Initially, I had used a template to build a quiz and the answer key option was built in, but using the template proved to be more difficult in this case for me than starting from scratch so I had scrapped it and started over and could not figure out on my own why there was no answer key option. It was not a difficult fix, but also not a blatantly obvious correction.
I plan to use Google Forms a lot in class (as long as it is a reasonable option for my situation). I think my favorite feature that I had on the affective assessment that I created was that it automatically populated the results into a pie chart so that I could visually see how the respondents answered my questions and quickly see in which areas there could be potential issues that would need to be planned for and/or addressed. Since no one has taken this quiz yet, I am not sure how the results would be generated because I included short answer and checkbox questions along with the multiple choice (which is all I used in the other one). So, I actually am interested in that feedback if anyone would like to take it. Below is my formative assessment. This is also a link to it, if that would be easier to take it: https://forms.gle/7TTKBAxzgGqebUkx5
Thanks!
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