SLATE 2011: Renee Disch – Google Forms for Assessment
Disclaimers out of the way first. Wisconsin DPI has an agreement with Google that makes sure that what happens in Google complies with FERPA. Apparently that is a good thing.
Google forms have the advantage of being free, viewable with internet access, and can involve some collaboration. There are various types of forms. Just a text box the title of which can become the header of a column in a spread sheet. You can have a paragraph text, multiple choice, multiple choice but you are choosing from a drop down list, check boxes, a scale sort of rating kind of thing, and a grid which is a scale but for multiple questions at once.
Accessing a Google form is as simple as signing in to your Google account (create one here) and then selecting Docs in the tool menu. From there select Form and you are ready to go. From here on out you are playing around and making your forms.
The bigger question for me is: How can I use Google Forms to improve student learning?
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