Student Assessments - NO MARKING!! | FREE Resources

Hi everyone, I'm Winnie and I'm a primary school teacher and a relieving assistant principal, and today I'm going to show you how to assess your students without marking. So I'm going to show you this one way how to do it. There are a few, yeah, a couple of, a few ways that you can do this, so this isn't the only way to assess your students without marking, so that's a good thing, and I can share with you other strategies as well. So today I'm going to show you this one strategy that I've been using, and I started to use it before COVID and it helped so much with, yeah, just saving time with, yeah, and just finding out where my students were at, finding out what they already knew, etc., so that I can really differentiate and cater for my students' needs. So I'm going to show you how I do it. So here is an example of a, yeah, a pretest that I've given to my Stage 2 class, and I've been using Google Forms, which has been amazing because you can turn it into a quiz and you can put in the answers and you can, and it will, you know, as soon as they submit in the form, and as soon as they submit in their answers to their test, then it just comes out and they can have a look at how they went. And you as a teacher can put in the correct responses, and when they click on submit, they can actually look at how they did. And this has been really powerful as well because when my students click on submit, then they can get that instant feedback and they can see, okay, so where do I need— what can I already do, what goals do I need to work on. And that's what I want for them. I want them to, you know, know what they need to work on. And yeah, just know what their goals are as well, which is why I do put the math goals in in this test as well. So as you can see, even just going up, I put in what the goal 1 is, so using the jump and split strategy, and then I put it— yeah, put in all of the questions. So all of the question 1 is related to goal 1. All of, you know, question 2 is related to goal 2, and then it gives them that instant feedback that, you know, if you got this incorrect, then that that's the goal that you're on, that's what you're going to be working on. And it means that the students, you know, it's really differentiated. They know what they're working on. And yeah, and it's very easy for me as the teacher to go in and see their test and see, okay, yep, so they've gotten all of these questions correct. Now, where are they up to for Yes, so for this student, she's got a lot of hers correct and now she is working on goal 5. So she'll need to work on subtraction, trading, especially with all the zeros as well. So that is where she would be working on. And if they do get all of the answers correct, then they're on goal 7, which is applying their knowledge into problem-solving tasks. And sometimes I give them, you know, little projects for them to do so that they can apply their, yeah, apply their knowledge. And sometimes in these tests, because you do put in the answers, sometimes if they do get it incorrect, so this student over here, they missed out on that, and I think normally they would have gotten it right, so I would give that to them. So sometimes you do have to, you know, have a quick look and just Yeah, and you can also, sometimes I let my students know that, you know, some, the, if it's, if your answer and their answer is pretty much the same, because sometimes, you know, you put in the number or the word, etc., or they might have spelt it incorrectly, then, you know, as long as they were trying to spell the correct answer correctly, and if it's a word and not the digit, then they're still, yeah, they're still correct. So let me just show you what the original form was. So this was the Google Form that I gave all of— this should be Stage 2, Stage 2 class. Okay, so you can put in questions, you can import questions if you have them, you can put in Yeah, the title and description, images, videos, you can add section as well. So I've put in our classes because we do give it out to our whole stage. So it's good to make sure it's all— it's not mixed up and we can still find our own students in our class. Yeah, so this is what it looks like from the teacher end, and this is the title and description that I've put in, and then you can add your question. So I'll just show you the different features in this form, and then I'll actually go through how I create, yeah, create a new one, because this week we're doing patterns in algebra, so I will actually need to make a test for that too. So Yeah, so there are different sections. You can, in the questions, you can decide if you want to make it multiple choice, if you want to make it checkboxes, dropdown. So there are lots of different options that you can pick. For this one, I've done multiple choice. If you do checkboxes, like, where have I done checkboxes? Here are. So if there are multiple options, then you can put checkboxes there. So there are multiple correct answers, and you can also put in pictures and photos as well to help with answering that question. So this is a money question, so I needed to put in an image. So you can do that through here, insert an image. You can upload it through your computer, camera, Google Drive, photo search, etc., etc., and you can also remove it or change it and align it however you wish. Yeah, and then to turn it into a quiz, so if you have a normal form, then, and you want it to mark itself, then you will need to go into settings and you can collect the email addresses I find that helps a lot. And you just go into quizzes and you just turn it into a quiz. And that's where— so if you turn it into a quiz, then what that means is that you have an answer key section. So you can click on the answer key. You can give it a point value. You don't have to if you don't want to. Yeah. And then you click on the correct answer and then you can give feedback. As well. So for multiple choice, you can give feedback for incorrect answers and you can also give feedback for correct answers. But because I'm using this as a form for my students to figure out what goal they are working on, then I put in, you know, if it's incorrect, then this is the goal that you're working on. And then for open-ended questions or short answer ones, you can also put in the answer key and you can mark all the other answers incorrect and it gives feedback for all answers. So that's why I say if you're incorrect, then you are on this goal here. So yeah, and then you can put in a whole bunch of questions, link it to whatever goal if you use math goals, etc. And yeah, so I will show you how a Google Form that I need to make for patterns and algebra. So in your Drive, you just click on New, you go to More, and then Google Forms, and then it'll open it straight up for you. And it will give you the title, so you can put Patterns and Algebra.

And it's for Stage 2 test, my first question.

The name in and then I'll do multiple choice because we're sending this out to all of our classes. So I'm going to put all the different classes in so it doesn't get mixed up. Obviously, if you're not, um, send— if you're just sending it to your own class, then you can do that. You can make the question required so they have to answer it. You can also duplicate it as well. So if you duplicate it, that's what what it looks like. And then, so that's really good if you have similar questions and you just want to change the content of it a little bit.

So I'm going to add the first—

oh, actually, I am going to put in a title and description because I want to put in what that goal is. So this was a pre-test that we made last year Let me just put in goal 1 from our maths program in.

So goal 1, so I can continue to describe and create number patterns.

Okay, so question 1.1a is create the following number patterns. So last year when we did this, we made sure that our question number related to our goal goal, so that when we did mark it or if we did go through and mark it as a whole class and do some explicit teaching like that, it meant that we knew that just by looking at the students' tests that if they got question 1 incorrect, then okay, that's the goal that they're working on. So it really helps with differentiating and knowing where our students were at. So complete the following number patterns, then I'll just copy this. Okay, and I can either give them multiple choice or I'm going to make it short answer. There, and then I gotta remember to— oh yeah, I want to collect the email addresses and I also want to turn this into a quiz. Save.

There.

Okay, so now we have an answer key and now you can assign it points. You don't have to if you don't want to. So the next one, this is going up by 4, so 18, and I'll mark all the other answers incorrect and the instant feedback that they'll get is Ready to unlock the world.

1. Start.

Save.

Done. And then I'll add another question in, so that will be 1B. Then we'll describe Describe the pattern, what is increasing or decreasing by, and then I'll leave that as a short answer.

Obviously, you can do multiple choice if you want.

Point, and then I'll do increasing by 4. Or I'll do plus 4.

I'll mark all the other answers incorrect, and in the feedback I'll say, um, you got 4, 1 plus 4, or, um, Oh, um, if not, you are.

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So sometimes when kids write in the answers, they have tried to spell increasing by 4, or they do plus and then space 4, and it marks them incorrect. So that's why I need to put in there that, you know, if you did get that or something very similar to this, then you are correct, because if it doesn't give the exact answer that I've given, then it will mark them wrong, and I just want them to know that Yeah, now if they've accidentally spelt it incorrect and that's what they were trying to spell, then it is correct. So yeah, so that's how you create your own form. And then once you are done with the quiz or the Google Form, then you can send the link. So you can shorten it So you can send the link, you can put it into your Google Classroom, you can send it out to your students to complete so that they can do it in the class, or if you don't have devices for everyone, then you can do it in a rotation as well. And then just, yeah, and then you can click on to responses when they're all done and you can see how they went. So yeah, that is one way to assess and find out where your students are at without marking, because the forms will do it for you and it will give instant feedback to your students as well, which I found really helpful because then they, they also know what their goals are and what they're working on, which is really good. And so yeah, so that's one way. I will I can show you another way in another video. But yeah, hopefully that was helpful to you. You can comment below, like, if, yeah, how you could use this in your own classroom too. And yeah, and hope this was helpful, and I hope you have a really good week or weekend, and I will see you in my next video. And don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel. I'm @misswinnietang, and I'm also on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter as well. So yeah, alright, see you in my next video. Bye!