Student Response Systems

What are Student Response Systems?

They are tools that can be used to gather student’s answers during instruction. There are numerous apps that provides that allows teachers to formally assess student’s learning throughout the instruction. With student response systems, students are engaged and all students can participate. Some examples of student response systems are Kahoot, Socrative, and Google Docs. Most of the teachers probably already heard of Kahoot so teachers would have already have witnessed how students were excited during the “friendly competition.”

There are a couple of student response tools that I would recommend below.

Plickers

I used this amazing quick assessment tool in a lesson before. I could not believe how students were excited in using them again in another lesson that I have taught. Plickers are great for classroom that have limited number of device for each student or no device at all.  All the necessary things that a teacher would need is a device (the teacher’s) and the plicker cards. The plicker cards are sort of like QR codes. Each student has a square unique pattern on their cards and each side of the square has the letters (A-C). The students can answer based on their choice letter. Plickers can be implemented in any subject.

Here’s an overview how Plickers are used:

PLICKERS

How to use the app PLICKERS for assessments

The next tool that I plan to use is and curious about is Socrative. The student response system allows for students to be assessed in a variety of ways such as multiple choice, short answer, and matching. Teachers are allowed to personalize formal or informal assessments according to student’s needs. Students can be assessed individually, in groups, or as whole. I can see Socrative be used in any subject that I would be teaching. I think this tool well go well with reading because I can ask an open-ended question so students are apt to writing meaningful answers Therefore teachers are going to get greater analysis of students’ learning.  In addition, students can answer questions in a game format resulting students’ engagement during instruction.

4C’s

Teachers are responsible in teaching students the skill for 21^st century learning. As the students grow, especially elementary students, their attention spans are short. Therefore, implementing a variety of quick assessments with devices or without device students are going to be engaged and garner deeper learning. With students’ response systems, students are able to collaborate among their peers and teachers. Students can stop on learning and think critically why they get this answer wrong to a question. Students are able to think critically when they are able to write a short response to a question because students are not answering in yes or no response. Students are able to communicatee because teachers are able to schedule a one-to-one meeting to discuss student’s learning and give constructive feedback on how a student improve on his or her learning. Teachers are allowing students to be creative by letting them ask questions whenever they might get an incorrect answer. Also, when students are engaged they are prone to participate in classroom discussion.