Using Nearpod as a collaborative assessment
tool.
Student
assessments are part of life in the classroom. Teachers need to know what
students know and can do to inform their teaching and ensure student learning.
With that in mind, Nearpod.com is a fun, collaborative online assessment (and
learning) tool that offers the ability to engage students in higher order
thinking and not just yes/no responses.
Nearpod is
flexible, which means it can be used as an individual assessment or
collaboratively. As you create your assessment, teachers are able to select
slides that assess in a variety of ways, including multiple-choice, matching,
polling, open-ended questions, drawing and collaboration. Collaboration slides
allow students to answer the question and then see other students’ answers on
the white board or screen. This is a great way for students to see how their
peers think and respond. It also provides the means for students to increase
their own understanding based on peer responses. Nearpod assessments could be also
be completed in small groups, offering a different type of collaboration. Depending
on what type of information the instructor is seeking, Nearpod can be designed
to work within many forms of assessment.
When using Nearpod,
student responses are submitted for the instructor to view. Teachers are able
to quickly assess what a student knows or is thinking when using Nearpod,
especially with the open-ended question option. This question-type encourages
students to put thinking into their own words instead of simply selecting the answer
from a list of options. Again, higher-order thinking in a quick formative
assessment tool is a wonderful feature of Nearpod.
I did not
find an option for instructor feedback between teacher and student, which would
be a helpful feature given the importance of constructive feedback.
The
assessment I created is designed for a 3rd grade science unit on weather.
My Nearpod assessment includes open-ended questions, drawing, collaboration and
a poll. This lesson could be done individually by students or in small-groups
depending on the goal of the assessment.
Click (or
copy and paste) the link to view my lesson.
Enter code:
FCJMQ (if prompted)
Click here
to check out Nearpod (the free version offers a lot of options, but there is a premium
option as well).
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