Yacapaca

I believe I can now truthfully claim that Yacapaca is the only true formative assessment service for schools.

Here’s how our new peer-written formative assessment process works:

1. After approximately one question in ten, students are presented with the screen below. They are asked to write a feedback statement for other students, in 150 characters or less – the size of an SMS or a tweet. They only see this screen if they got the answer right, and it is not compulsory – there is always the option to skip this activity.

The requirement to write for other students seems to trigger (more…)