Tag: formative assessment
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Data Driven Instruction with Naiku
Read MorePremier educators such as Dr. Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Driven By Data 2.0: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction) and Dr. John Hattie (Visible Learning) promote the use of data in enhancing instruction and student learning. In this linked white paper, Dr. Adisack Nhouyvanisvong discusses these techniques and showcases how to implement them using Naiku.
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Use ACT Quick Checks for Progress Monitoring
Read MoreNaiku provides over 50 ACT Quick Checks for teachers to use for student progress monitoring in all ACT test subjects. ACT Quick Checks are short, topic-focused, formative assessments; typically 6-12 questions in length. Each Quick Check contains questions from a single topic, such as Math-Functions, so teachers can use to easily monitor progress between benchmark […]
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Importance of Formative Assessment
Read MoreWelcome back to this week’s edition of Naiku’s Coach’s Corner. This week, I want to discuss the importance of incorporating formative assessments into your classroom assessment practice. Formative assessment is a great way to measure a student’s performance during instruction, and usually occurs regularly throughout the instruction process. When we assess student learning for formative purposes, there […]
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We Are Naiku: Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School
Read MoreWaverly-Shell Rock Middle School serves grades 5-8 students in northeastern Iowa. The school implements a 1:1 iPad program to integrate technology throughout the educational program in a seamless and timely fashion. For the past three years, the school has integrated Naiku into their classroom for formative assessment, progress monitoring, and reporting for their PLCs. Download […]
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New Quick Question Features
Read MoreExtra! Extra! Read all about it! Naiku releases two new features to their popular web-based student response system Quick Question. This free on-line formative assessment tool now allows teachers to 1) create questions on the fly in Quick Question and 2) save the data from the session for later viewing. When you launch Quick Question […]
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Quick Question Quick Tip #3
Read MoreUsing Exit Tags with Quick Question Did you know that you can easily use exit tags with Quick Question? Starting an exit tag is easy – just press the exit tag button just as you would any other question type and the student devices are instantly updated. Students have predefined choices they can select (see […]
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Quick Question Quick Tip #1
Read MoreHow To Identify Individual Student Answers Did you know that you can easily identify individual student answers when polling your students with Quick Question? It’s easy – simply hover your mouse over the answer selection, and a pop-up box will highlight all those students (or teachers if you are using in a staff meeting!) that […]
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A Bring Your Own Technology (Device) Policy Statement
Read MoreHere’s the policy statement that one of our client schools uses to guide their Bring Your Own Technology program. We’ve heard of too many schools agonizing too much, in our opinion, over drafting such a policy. It’s always good to have everyone voice their ideas and weigh-in on new innovations, but this isn’t that hard. […]
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One Big Idea
Read MoreThe central and core idea underlying formative assessment is that evidence of what students are learning is used to adjust instruction in order to better meet each student’s learning needs. Yet, something is missing from this idea. The focus is on instruction. What about the student? For assessment to be formative, both the teacher and […]