Kahoot!
Description: Kahoot! is probably one of my favorite assessment tools available with the use of technology and devices. It is available for individuals or teams to participate. It is presented as a game with multiple choice options and true/false. It is colorful and bright which is inviting and engaging. It can be used with any device that can access the internet. When you begin a quiz it gives you a code for participants to join.
Why choose Kahoot!: I chose Kahoot! because I have used it as a student in undergrad. I have also been to a few professional developments that offered this as an activity. It is exciting and fun to participate.
Benefits: As I mentioned above, it promotes engagement which can motivate students to learn and attend to subject matter.
Challenges: The only challenge I ran into with this was coming up with an idea for subject matter to assess. A lot of my students have a goal to recall basic multiplication facts so I decided to create an assessment for the "3" multiplication fact family. Kahoot! was pretty simple to figure out as far as creating and modifying an assessment as well as adding pictures.
Quizizz
Description: Quizizz is an assessment tool that can also be used via technology in the classroom. It can be used as a quiz or classroom activity for any subject. There are quizzes available or you can create your own. I really liked that you can select the option to have a single correct answer choice or multiple correct answer choices. This can beWhy choose Quizizz: I chose Quizizz because it aligned more to my needs as a special education teacher. Some of the other tools did not offer options that allow me to assess the specific standards that I focus on with my SPED students.
Benefits: The benefits of this tool is the fact that it is user friendly, and again it is similar to a game so it engages the students and motivates them to pay attention and do well.
Challenges: I chose to create an assessment on prefixes because it is something that I am currently working on with my adapted students. The Quizizz tool itself did not pose many challenges, but the ability to come up with questions about prefixes did. It is an intro week to prefixes so we are working on the basics like un-, dis-, and pre-. So that limited me to the words and difficulty of questions I could ask.
Link: Quizizz Prefixes
Abigail,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog post and the effort you put in to creating your assessments! I also used Kahoot! and Quizizz. I didn't have experience with either tool, but I plan to utilize them more. Quizizz seems like it would be more helpful in a more formal approach to testing, while Kahoot! seems more like a fun and interactive way to engage students and learn at the same time!
Thank you for sharing,
Holly Dendy
Hi Abigail,
ReplyDeleteI tried out your Quizziz assess tool app to see how the technical aspect works out. It went very well. Considering a couple of assessment apps I tried were a fail. The failure with the other apps were that when I chose to take the assessment the app asks for a pin and when I got the pin entered I had to open another screen to paste the pin and then the assessment was on one page and the choices were on another page! This COULD definitely be a user error(ME).However I tried 3 other peoples same app software and the same thing happened! But, with Quizziz - it was completely user friendly, I didnt even have to register to use the app which makes it easier for students at home! Great job! Looking forward to our next assignment. Take care, Summer Kinsey