Rosa Sanchis
Col·legi Sant Roc, Alcoy (Spain)
EVALUATION WITH SOCRATIVE
Socrative is a kind of application that can be accessed on the top three operating systems: Windows, Apple, and Chrome. No downloads are required. A web browser that utilizes HTML-5 is needed to access all functions. Socrative is also usable on various hardware: desktops, smartphones, tablets, and mobile phones. Further, Technical help is offered via a web page that offers tips and answers frequently asked questions presented by users.
The type of lesson that we talk is Evaluation and the general competencies developed during the lesson are Computacional thinking, Design mindset, transdisciplinarity (TEC, ICT). In addition the digital study materials developed for the lesson are at https://b.socrative.com/login/student/.
The three main objectives of the lesson are encouraging the students cognitive and connective abilities, evaluating the knowledge of the contents of the subject and using digital devices.
To achieve these objectives and to do a right lesson, we take in account that Socrative is a formative assessment tool which allow teacher to check understanding of all students during a lesson. It’s designed for use in class, in real time.
Socrative is a cloud-based student response system developed in 2010 by Bostonbased graduate school students. It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops – or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their own smartphones.
The quiz allows teacher to create multiple-choice, true/false or short-answer question quizzes that they can save and use again. It means that in class the teacher launches the quiz and students complete it in real time on their devices. As students answer the questions, the teacher can see the results and then download them. And finally, the teacher can then make more informed decisions about what happens next in the lesson.
Some of the advantages of using Socrative are: Visualize student understanding, ask multiple choice and true/false questions, ask open-ended questions and vote on the results, create your own quizzes (instantly graded for you), share quizzes with other teachers, give end of class exit tickets, play games with our space race, view students results in real time and reporting – Download, Email or send to Google Drive.
These are the steps to carry out the lesson:
1.You have to go to socrative.com and click TEACHER LOGIN. You can sign up for free account or use your existing Google account.
2. Students don’t need register, and will only enter their names later. This is the room name to give students.
3. Upon sigining in, you will enter your DASHBOARD. You may not have created a quiz yet, so click on MANAGE QUIZZES.
4. You can see a new set of options will appear, Click on CREATE QUIZ to start the process.
5. You have the options of creating MULTIPLE CHOICE, TRUE / FALSE or SHORT ANSWER quiestions.
6. You can create as many questions as you’d like, and the procedure is quite straightforward. You can also optionally include answers if you want the system to generate the marks automatically.
7. Once satisfied, go ahead and click SAVE & EXIT for the next step.
8. Take note if want to share. You can insert the number assigned to your quizz.
9. You will be sent to your dashboard again. Now click on START A QUIZ to use the quiz that you’ve created earlier. You can recycle the ones you have used before as well as they will be stored in thesystem for future use. Click on the quiz you want to use.
10. Is recommended to turn off to capture student names in report
11. Select the type of quiz you like, and click START to begin the quiz.
This lesson has allowed us to know a new methodology when evaluating our students. This provides us with speed in correction and also clarity in what is asked of the students. Also you could also use Socrative to assess reading or listening comprehension or to add information about why an answer is correct in the ”explanation box” which could be very useful for exam classes.