ACTE 625

Formative Assessment Technologies

Kayla Green

IXL

What is it?

How it works

• Personalized digital learning space
• Tartgeted learning tool
• Offers resources for students and teachers by grade level, topics, and skills
• Helps support teaching and learning outcomes
• Provides analytics and recommendations
• Math, ELA, Science, Social Studies, Spanish

• Diagnostic Assessment - once a week
• Recommendations based on assessment
• Students work through recommendations or skills from the teacher
• Smartscore - difficulty changes by responses
• 100- Mastered, 90- excellent, 80- proficient
• Allows for independent work

• Why do I like it?

Key 4- Formative Usefulness

• Strategies are the same - not diverse
• Offers immediate feedback - can win prizes
• No peer feedback - can complete a group jam
• Self-assessment/goal setting (faciliated by teacher)
• Students work on their needs each day

Five Keys to classroom assessment quality

Key 5- Effective Communication

Key 3- Sound Design

• Track learning progress -feature through IXL (IEP Goals, benchmarking)
• Check-ins with student on progress - students also have access
• Can use as a summative assessment if you assign a quiz/test

• Match learning targets
• Items and exercises of high quality
• Represents learning appropriately
• Control for bias
• Can create assessments for formative use