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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

Shake Up Learning

This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments and to check for understanding. Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. You can feed your form or quiz data into a Google Sheet for analysis and evaluation. Google Forms.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Pearson will continue to support “some pure online programs,” Fallon added, and “online program management and virtual schooling are two of the biggest areas of growth for the company. The weight of the activity will be in blended learning, and how you combine the benefits of face-to-face with purely online approaches.”.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. These tasks are perfect for learning across the curriculum and especially for librarian-led learning. These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry.