Pre-assessment

“Any method, strategy or process used to determine a student’s current level of readiness, knowledge or interest in order to plan for appropriate instruction. It provides data and information to show the learning levels of each student before planning instruction. It helps teachers determine learning options for students functioning at different levels or with different sets of knowledge and skills.”

Some technologies for PRE-ASSESSMENT:
  • Google forms
  • Survey Monkey

Instructions:

If you’ve  never created your own Google form start here (otherwise skip to the Advanced section):
1. Log in to your SIS mail, and then go to Documents > Create New > Form
Your Task: Create a pre-assessment survey for an upcoming unit (or some other task that requires data collection e.g. voting for best moustache in Movember)
2. Give your survey a title by typing in the box that says “Untitled Form” and add general directions in the box below the title
3. You can pick from a variety of question types by selecting the “Question Type” option within a question or by “Add New Item” at the top to create a new question.

Here are some of the things you can do with your questions:
Edit: To edit an existing question, just click the Edit button to the right of the question you want to edit.
Delete: To delete a question, click the Delete button to the right of the question you want to delete.
Duplicate: To duplicate a question, click the Duplicate button to the right of the question you want to duplicate.
Try making a question for each of the types.

4. Then share your survey with another person in the Pre-Assessment group by clicking the “Email This Form” button and adding that person’s email to the list.

Forms - Advanced

If you have created one before, we’ll look at some advanced features
1. Did you know you can create a form by starting with a spreadsheet with questions as headers in the top row and then click “Form” from the Spreadsheet toolbar to create a form based on the spreadsheet? Try it!
2. For larger surveys, or surveys that have a diverse audience, you may want to divide it into sections or allow individuals to skip irrelevant sections.
>As a pre-assessment, if a student answered a basic multiple choice question wrong, you might want to direct them to more basic questions, whereas a right answer might direct them to a higher level of questions

Add section headers if you'd like to divide your form in sections to make it easier to read and complete. Simply select Section header from the Add item drop-down menu
Each section header can have a title, which appears in a larger font, and a section description.
Adding pages
If you've created a long form, for example, and would like to make it easier for your respondents to fill it out, you can add page breaks. From the Add item drop-down menu, select Page break.Allowing navigation to a specific page and adding general page navigation
Once you've created a form with multiple pages, you can add different sets of questions based on a previous answer within the form, and allow people to skip irrelevant sections. (Sort of like those awesome Choose Your Own Adventure Books!)
Multiple choice questions with the 'Go to page based on answer' option enabled direct form respondents to particular pages based on their answer, whereas page navigation automatically routes form respondents to a specific page based on your selection. For example, you can create a form asking your respondents to select their language and then direct them to questions written in their language. Then, they can all be automatically routed back to the same page using page navigation in page breaks.

Including answer-based navigation
  1. Click Add Item and select Multiple Choice.
  2. The option to allow people to go to a specific page within the form is available for multiple choice questions only.
  3. Select the option labeled 'Go to page based on answer.'
    • Next to your answers for this question, you'll see a drop-down menu where you can choose to direct people to a specific page depending on their answer.
    • Note: If you have more than one "Go to" multiple choice question on a page, the form respondent will be routed to the page indicated for the last answered "Go to" question.


Including page navigation:
  1. Insert a page break by clicking Add Item and selecting Page Break.
    • You can name your page break and add a description so you remember where you're directing groups of form respondents.
    • In the drop down-menu of your page break, select the page you'd like form respondents to navigate to next.

If a page has a "Go to" multiple choice question on it, the respondent's answer to this question will override any page navigation settings.
Once you've set up these options, you can send out your form, and your form respondents will navigate to different pages on your form based on their answers in the "Go to" questions or your selections in the form page breaks.

Other programs:
  • Survey Monkey
  • Poll Daddy

How could this be used in the classroom?
Pre-assessing student readiness for a unit or lesson
Quick formative assessment
Student experimental data collection
See some examples of lesson plans here:.