Kahhoot
It is funny that we had an inservice at my school on how to use technology to assess the children. They recommended this fun program which can be an app on the computer, phone or ipad or you log-in on the browser.
Kahoot allows you to make a quiz that the entire class can use and it is teacher controlled. The teacher has the main quiz, the students answer the questions and the class can see how everyone answered. The teacher then moves to the next question and it moves on the students device too.
I decided to use the Governor's Race that the 4th grade does when they are trying to study for the SOLs. They are given a learning packet and a power point but I feel that this is more fun and the children do not know that they are being assessed.
Here are 5 questions of the quiz.
The governor's race is an example of spaced Effects. Below is a description of spaced effects. The questions on the test cover the information that the students were tested on in throughout the year. It is summative and goes back to the first quarter. This type of spaced testing helps with long term retention of material that may have been forgotten from the first quarter
Spaced Effects
Spaced schedules of testing (like spaced schedules of studying) produce better long-term retention than a single test. When a single test is administered immediately after learning, students obtain high scores, but long-term retention is reduced with a single immediate test relative to spaced testing. When a test is given immediately after learning has occurred, learners still have the newly-learned information in a primary memory system and therefore obtain high test scores. Both teachers and learners often misjudge their high scores on a test given immediately after learning as evidence of good retention, when, in fact, long-term retention suffers with this practice.
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