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Tag: formative feedback
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If you have Author privileges in Yacapaca, go to More -> My Quizzes. You can ignore search for now, and go straight to Build a New Quiz: This allows you to build a new quiz from scratch, drawing questions from the entire question bank (164,000 questions at time of writing). You can modify
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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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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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My thanks to Beth Evans, of The Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough for this idea. Beth wrote “I did screen shot one question that came up whilst I was testing a quiz I had written and used it as a plenary to the previous* lesson as part of the critera setting for the next task.” *…
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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…
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