Price: Free
Purpose/Capabilities:
The Socrative app has the same capabilities as the website. There is a teacher version of this app and a
student version of this app. The teacher
can create quizzes, exit tickets, or space race games for students to complete
on the learning goals for the lesson. It
allows teachers to create both multiple choice and short answer questions. It can be anonymous, or the students can be
asked to fill in their name. It can be
used to quickly and easily assess students for content knowledge of any
topic. The teacher can run a
“teacher-paced quiz” where student have a limited time to answer a question,
then everyone goes to the next question, or a “student-paced quiz,” where
students can have as much time as they need to complete each question.
Positive Aspects:
Socrative is a quick
and easy way for teachers to get real feedback on how well their students
understand a particular topic. The
students generally like using this app because they can complete the questions
without feeling insecure, since the other students in the class will not know
their responses. I use the quiz feature
most often because it will create an Excel spreadsheet of the data from the
class’s responses. I mix up both
multiple choice questions and short answer questions. The teacher can program correct responses for
multiple choice questions which will appear in green on the spreadsheet and
wrong answers in red to make it easy to assess.
These assessments can be made ahead of time and can be as long or short
and as general or specific as the teacher wants.
Negative Aspects:
There is no math type
in Socrative, so it is hard to type in some equations. In addition, I have had one or two instances
where the student version of the app did not work for all my students during
class. In this case, I had them go to
the website; it just took longer for them to get there. There have been updates as recently as three
days ago, so hopefully this has been fixed.
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