My school has Smart Boards in every room. Our formative assessment coordinator got us class sets of remotes (affectionately called "the clickers") that we use to take assessments in class. Sometimes we use this online tool called Classscapes which gives us scores on our EOC objectives so that we can better focus our classroom instruction. We can also create our own assessments. I have created assessments using our EOC coaching books. The students read the passage (I teach English I) and use the clickers to enter in their answers. The software tells me who gets the questions correct or incorrect. It gives me statistical breakdowns on individuals and classes.
I used it last week to give a final. The computer graded everything for me and I imported their scores into NCwise. I literally had all of my finals graded and entered into the gradebook in 3 mintues. It was pretty cool.
Wow! This is an excellent example of how technology can help alleviate teachers of some of the busy work! I really want to be able to keep up with new and improved uses for technology so I'm not the teacher insisting everyone be quiet while I hand grade even simple multiple choice assessments!
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