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Tag: formative assessment
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Yacapaca webinars run weekly on Thursdays at 4:00-4:30pm, UK time. They are designed to be of value to both SLTs making the strategic decision to adopt a formative assessment platform, and existing users who seek to extract more teaching & learning from the tool they already know and love. Because these events attract a mix…
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Consider a class that has studied a particular topic. Different students know different amounts about the topic. Some understand one aspect well, others another. Some probably haven’t ‘got it’ at all. You could say that understanding of your topic within the class is lumpy. How can you efficiently share that knowledge and understanding so that…
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So your students have taken their quiz, read the feedback, got the score. What now? Most likely, you want students to fill in the gaps in their knowledge that the quiz has revealed. Here are the 5 tools we have built into Yacapaca to help them do just that. 1. Gap analysis The very simplest.…
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Imagine asking one of your classes a deep, but deceptively-simple, question. Have them judge each others’ answers anonymously, give their reasons for the judgements, then assess the reasons as well. At the end of the process you get a mark. Automatically. No exercise books, no late-night marking sessions. Just high-quality formative assessment. Empowered, gamified, peer-supported…
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The Peer Assessment log is a treasure trove for any teacher who wants to gain a deeper understanding of their students. If you want to know how students really think and write, don’t read their essays, read what they write for consumption by
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