Formative assessment tool 1: Todaysmeet Todaysmeet is a free backchanneling tool that can be used as a formative assessment tool. It is a kind of ‘private Twitter’ for your classroom. Here is a quick tutorial to set it up as a teacher Formative assessment tool 2: Plickers Plickers is a free and innovative student response system using QR codes and a mobile app. Only the teacher needs to have access to a networked device....
The ‘Checklist‘ package (updated less than a week ago) is very easy to use, and creating your first self-assessment with it should be a breeze, as long as your criteria for self-assessment are clear and easily understandable by students. Although it is a great resource, I must warn you that the Checklist package does not allow for a scale to be used (e.g. I am very confident doing this, I am confident doing this, I am sometimes confident doing this, I am not confident doing this, I do not know how to do this) and you should use either the ‘Questionnaire‘ or the ‘Feedback‘ modules to achieve this, though in my opinion it takes longer to setup and is not as ‘child friendly’....