Assessment technologies
Assessment is a critical component of the educational system and plays an important role in the teaching-learning process. Teachers can use assessment to classify how much learning has been done and what can be done to improve it. They can also frame their instruction using appropriate assessment by providing positive feedback on students’ performance. The evaluation process has an impact on both the teacher and the student. no wonder that there are a plethora of tech tools like Jamboard, Flipgrid, Mentimeter, Google forms, Laterably, Edpuzzle, Peardeck, peergrade, and so on are available for assessment these days to make the process easier and effective. One of the assessment tool that is new to me is Mentimeter.
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Mentimeter is an excellent assessment and presentation tool designed not just for education but for business purposes too. because it allows you to include polls, word clouds, Q&As, and other interactive elements in your presentations, as well as allow students to vote and respond to various questions. The best part about Mentimeter, in my opinion, is that students can interact with the presentation in real time. Apart from these, it provides a wide range of formative assessments that can be administered in real time, which is not possible with many other tools. And it is one of the easiest tool to use you don’t require any installation or heavy fees can be accessed free
– Best features of Mentimeter
- Adaptive
- Easily Accessed online
- Live interaction
- Poll creating feature for both teacher and students
- Student engagement
- Word cloud for brainstorming
- Provides data for assessment
- Visually appealing
- Could be used for both education and business
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I’m sharing a short Vedio guide to using Mentimeter by Mark Dickson, a digital consultant who has done an excellent job of explaining the software from the ground up and explaining each and every function in detail. I hope you enjoy it.
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Great overview, Meenu. Before this class, I had never even heard of Mentimeter or used it. When it was first used in one of our presentations I was pretty impressed with the simplicity and immediate feedback. As you note, it is a very handy formative assessment tool. My only concern with all of the assessment tools you list (and I love using) is when they are used for summative assessments. I still don’t believe anything can replace 1:1 conferring between student and teacher. Of course, that is time-consuming – so these formative assessment tools are very handy in the meantime.