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Please download these apps to your phone
1. Campus Labs – Respond
2. Socrative Student
Going Beyond Clickers
Formative Assessment
Through Polling
Objectives
Why use polling
Review 3 polling software applications
Determine circumstances to best use polling in the work you do
Distinguish between formative and summative assessment
Formative Assessment
Formative assessment monitors student learning by providing immediate and ongoing feedback to an instructor while instruction is occurring.
Summative assessment evaluates student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some kind of standard.
Formative Assessment Methods
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• Observations
• Questioning
• Discussion
• Student Presentations
• Polling
Benefits of Using Polling
• Gain pre-test knowledge of student knowledge, skills, & abilities
• Gain a more “honest’ answer on touch subjects (responses have to anonymous)
• Keeps class attention
• Allows for students to gauge their responses as to their peers
• Seek quick opinions
• No one get’s “picked on”
• Provide immediate feedback on topic
Considerations When Selecting Polling Applications
Use pre-planned questions or on the fly
How many questions?
Do you need to edit questions/change the order?
What platforms do you need to develop your questions?
What platforms do the students need to answer questions?
Do students need to answer questions when teacher brings them up, or can they answer all questions at once?
Are you showing results/responses in class?
Anonymous responses?
Cost
Parts of Polling Software
1. Instructor Question Creation/Development
2. Student Answers
3. Results Display
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Polling Software We’ll go Over
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1. Campus Labs – Respond
2. Poll Everywhere
3. Socrative
Campus Labs Respond
• UB owned and available to all faculty
• Faculty develop questions using web browser @
https://buffalo.respond.campuslabs.com
• Students can go to https://srs.campuslabs.com
Or
• Download the Campus Labs Respond app.
Campus Labs Respond - Instructor
• You will have to login using your UBIT login
• Connect ID is associated with you, the instructor
• Student Responses are shown to be anonymous, but you have the option to download a .csv file (to be opened in Excel) that will show “who” and what they responded.
• Limited to 15 questions
Campus Labs Respond - Instructor
• Hard to edit/move questions to a different order
• Can have students complete questions when instructor wants them to “Manual” or you can have students complete questions all at once “Self-Paced”
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere
• www.polleverywhere.com
• Poll Everywhere is a Text Messaging poll software
• Free Account, but no more than 40 responses. $349/semester for 400 responses per poll
• Can clear results and reuse poll
• Students reply via text message
Reply to Poll Everywhere
Send a Text Message to: 37607
The question: Did you vote in the last election?
If No: Write in the text message 825168
If Yes: Write in the text message 825169
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Socrative – Instructor
• Instructor can develop questions online at: http://www.socrative.com
• Also has a teacher app
• Free
• Allows for student self-paced, or instructor paced
• Anonymous/named results
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Socrative - Instructor
• Unlimited questions
• Ease of editing
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Socrative - Student
• Can answer at http://www.socrative.com
• Or use the Socrative App (free)
• Need a Room Number to Answer: e3ff2ada
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Questions?