As a Chinese (foreign language) teacher, I would like to assess my students' reading, writing, listening and speaking Chinese. A lot of good assessment apps only offer multiple-choice questions, such like Kahoot!. But I need a tool that could not only provides multiple-choice questions, but also open ended questions.
As a Chinese teacher (specialist), I will teach a lot of students Chinese. Therefore, I need the app could be very helpful to organize my report cards and also costumer friendly.
After a few exploring, I find Socrative which could provide short answer questions and also beautiful and orderly report cards.
The steps of creating your own quiz:
1, Sign up.
2. Create a quiz.
3. Launch the quiz to your Room.
4. Students login in and join the Room.
5. Students type their names.
6. Students start their quiz.
7. Teacher see the report and download the report cards.
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1. Sign up.
Socrative allows teachers to use the simple version for free. The simple version is enough for most of the classroom teachers. However, the simple version just offers one Room/ one quiz at a time. If I want to have more than one quiz at the same time (for example, let different graders students finish their quiz at home.) I have to buy the professional version. The price is up to $59.99 per year.
2. Create a quiz.
The user interface is very costumer friendly. I LOVE it. It saves a lot of time. It allowed to create multiple-choice questions, true/false question and short answers. It even allowed to use Chinese! You also could add pictures to the questions.
For the short answer question, you could add some optional answers below. Then Socrative will automatically score the answer from students for you. However, it doesn't allow the teachers to manual score the short answer question. Which means, only the students answer 100% match the setting answers, they get score (100%). If they have a tiny mistake in their answers, they will get a zero. To fix this problem, I could skip the optional answers setting. Which means the short answer question has no setting answers. Socrative will not give any students any score to that question. Then I could manual grade them on their report card.
3. Launch the Quiz to you Room.
I did spend a long time to figure out how to start a quiz.
The procedure is: 1. Create a Quiz. 2. Back to home page and click Launch. 3. Choose Quiz and pick the Quiz that you would like to use this time. At this time, you put the Quiz that you would like to use to your Room. When the students join your Room, they will be able to attend to the Quiz automatically.
4. Students login in and join the Room.
Students don't need a account. But they need to know the name of the Room.
5. Students type in their names.
When they join the room, they are required to type in their names. Teachers could decide to use their real names or nicknames.
6. Students start their Quiz.
Now, students could start their Quiz.
7. Teacher see the report and download the report cards.
This is my favorite part. Socrative offers very beautiful and orderly report cards. It offers whole class assessment Excel version, teacher-friendly chart version, and students' own report cards. They are all automatically made by Socrative. Which is amazing!
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1. Limited free version.
The free version is very simple. Good enough for a classroom teacher who have one quiz at one time. But not enough for the language teachers who might need quiz for different grade students at a time.
2. Can't manual grade the short answer question.
For the short answer question, you could add some optional answers below. Then Socrative will automatically score the answer from students for you. However, it doesn't allow the teachers to manual score the short answer question. Which means, only the students answer 100% match the setting answers, they get score (100%). If they have a tiny mistake in their answers, they will get a zero.
Voice Thread
Socrative is very good for multiple-choice questions, which could assess my students' grammar, writing and listening Chinese. (If I combine with some oral materials.) But if I want to assess students' speaking Chinese, Voice Thread will be my first choice. I have introduce Voice Thread before. See my previous post
WAP # 3--Students as Scribe. Now I will review how to do the speaking assessment by using Voice Thread.
Teacher could start a foreign language activity or assessment with students' audio records. Activity might include to have the students read a story, record their voice day by day. Students will be able to listen to their own voice and see how they improve their oral language. Teachers could also record a model reading to the students. Students could listen to the teachers' pronunciation and practice everyday.
I also see a Chinese teacher use this app as an assessment. Every student record their oral presentation as comments and perform their final language skill. They could also listen to their peers' presentation, too. Awesome!
I also see a Chinese teacher use this app as an assessment. Every student record their oral presentation as comments and perform their final language skill. They could also listen to their peers' presentation, too. Awesome!
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