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Chapter 9 - Grading & Assessment

There are great uses of online quizzes, games and tests. They provide opportunities for students to practice in test-taking environments or test their knowledge before an assessment

Quia is an impressive online subscription-based service ($49/yr) for creating games, quizzes, web pages, surveys, calendars, and more. It features a directory of thousands of online activities and quizzes in more than 50 subject areas and templates for creating 14 different types of online activities, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, hangman, jumbled words, ordered list, picture perfect, pop-ups, challenge board, scavenger hunt, rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game), columns, and cloze exercises.

Easy Test Maker lets you create free online multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections. You can also print a master answer sheet.

Discovery School Quiz Center is a free tool to create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Discovery School Quiz Center provides a web address for students to access the quiz and emails the graded and corrected results to you, but has no database to keep the scores.

The Hot Potatoes downloadable program includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web.

Quiz Star is a free web-based program to create a custom quiz that others can take online. Quiz Star provides a web address for students to access a quiz and tells you when a student takes it. It also keeps aggregate data on the website for all quizzes taken by students.

Sample Online Games for Assessment

Here are sample online games and quizzes from select high school classes:

• "Industrial Age" practice quiz
• World Religions quiz
• Irregular English verbs
• Greek and Latin word roots

Essay Rubrics

One way to help students prepare for writing is to ensure that they know what is expected of them. Rubrics can be very effective tools for communicating your expectations with students, and they can also help give students specific feedback in a timely manner. Rubrics also can easily be modified for use as peer editing tools. Click here to learn more.

Innovative Lesson Plans

Our technology integration projects and activities engender student creativity & empowerment.

• "Day in Life of Hobo" podcast - Tom's interdisciplinary creative writing/historical simulation activity calls on students to research the plight of homeless teenagers during the Great Depression and then create their own fictionalized account of a day in the life of a Hobo.
• "Social Mobility" audio blogging - Tom's group audio blogging activity calls on students to compare social mobility and social inequality in America today with the "Gilded Age" of the late 19th century using VoiceThread.
• More innovative lessons and projects that integrate multimedia