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Introduction

Welcome!

Integrating SMART Response & Web 2.0 for Formative

Assessments

Lindsay Skidmore & Lindsay LeeInstructional Technology Facilitators

Setting Up SMART Response Objectives

Setting Up SMART Response Objectives:

Define SMART Response & its uses in the classroom

Understand how the SMART Response system works

Be able to setup SMART Response system

What Is SMART Response?

What is SMART Response?SMART Response system is a tool

for requesting & receiving information from a group.

You can:

Gather formal/informal information

Preplan your questions or use instant questions

Integrate questions into a lesson or use them on their own

Save or discard student response

Specify whether you want student response to contribute to grades or not

Exercise 1

How does SMART Response fit into my classroom?

1. How do you actively engage your students in a lesson?

2. How do you tell if your students understand a lesson?

3. How do you include the timid students in a group activity or discussion?

4. How do you prepare for academic discussions with parents?

5. How do you determine student grades? What type of assessment results do you include in the final grades? Which assessments do you exclude?

Check Understanding


Check How Well Students Understand the Lesson

Integrate questions throughout lesson to gauge understanding

Checkpoints does this make sense?

Lessonending review question sets

Instant questions

Preassessment to gauge understanding prior to starting a lesson

Increase Engagement


Increase Lesson EngagementOpinion Polls

Integrated questions throughout lessons (everyone must answer)

Instant questions when interest is fading

Lesson kickoff, brainteasers, or puzzles

Thinkpairshare activities (use clickers to share)


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Eliminate Grading Time


Eliminate Test Grading Time

Pre/Post tests & quizzes

Fullclass homework review

Replacement for worksheetstyle assessments

Collect Data


Collect Data

Formative Assessment Data

Pre & Post assessments to demonstrate learning

Assessments that include tagged students to compare results

between different student groups

Section/Module/Topic reports

Chronological reports to monitor progress over time

Class/Grade report comparison

How does SMART Response fit in my classroom?


Choose a lesson you've planned for next week. How can you make effective use of the SMART Response System

during or following that lesson?

How Does It Work

How does the SMART Response System Work?

1. Students see

questions

2. Students use clickers to respond

3a. Computer compiles responses instantly & displays them for review

3b. Receiver transmit response to computer

Components

What does Each Component Do?

Students submit answers with the clickers to your computer. You can save/discard results.

Receiver sends information wirelessly between your computer & student clickers

Use SMART Notebook Software to display lessons and questions to students. You monitor assessment progress and use the result charts to review responses with class.

Use Teacher Tools Software to associate a response with a particular student. Teacher tools operate behind the scenes collecting, sorting, & saving responses. It also allows you to analyze results and create achievement reports

steps

Setting Up SMART Response

The setup has 3 basic steps:

1. Classroom setup

2. Wireless clickertocomputer setup

3. Response storage system setup


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Classroom setup

Setting Up SMART Response in the ClassroomHardware:

> Receiver

> Clickers

Software:

> SMART Response (downloaded from smarttech.com)

> SMART Notebook 11

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Setting Up SMART Response in the Classroom

Steps:

1. Install SMART Response Software• need to have it installed on computer connected to SMART board

as well as any other computer used to create assessments.

2. Connect the receiver to the computer• mount as high as possible

• avoid mounting to metal surface

• connects via USB cord no power cord

3. Install batteries in the clickers

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Setting Up the Wireless ClickertoComputer ConnectionSteps:1. Computer signal the receiver to broadcast an identifying channel

2. Students turn on their clickers.

3. Clickers scan for classes within range.

4. Your classroom name appears on each clicker screen.

5. Students select their teacher's computer via clickers.

6. Students enter responses into clickers.

7. Clicker wirelessly send the response to computer.

SMART Teacher File

Setting Up a Storage System for Student Responses

SMART Response system saves students' response to a SMART Teacher file so you can access them from any computer with SMART Response software installed.

Creating Classroom

To set up the Wireless ClickertoComputer Connection1. Click on SMART Response icon in the notification area

2. Click Click here to Start a Class under the Teacher Tools heading. The SMART Response Teacher Tools window appears.

3. Complete all the fields to create you SMART Teacher File.

4. Type a classroom name for your receiver.

5. Click Save.

6. Give it a file name and Save it to My Documents.

Creating class

To Create a SMART Teacher File

1. Open Teacher Tools software.

2. The Gradebook Information window appears.

3. Click Add a Class in the Teacher Tools side menu of Gradebook view or under Next Steps.

4. Type your class information into the fields.

5. Click Add. The Gradebook list displays the class.


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Adding Students

To Create a SMART Teacher File

Add students to each class:

1. Select the Students tab.

2. Click Add or select Edit>Add

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To Create a SMART Teacher File3. Type the student information into the fields. Use the Tab key on your keyboard to advance to the next field.

4. Type keywords in the Tag field that you want to associate with that student.

5. Press the Tab key to advance to the next row and add another student.

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To Create a Class by importing a Class List from NCWISE1. Open NCWISE.

2. Create a class record for your class.

3. Open Excel.

4. Create 3 Column Headings

a. Cell A1 = ID Number

b. Cell A2 = First Name

c. Cell A3 = Last Name

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To Create a Class by importing a Class List from NCWISE

5. Go back to NCWISE and copy the pupil number.

6. Go back to Excel and paste the pupil number under ID Number column.

7. Go back to NCWISE and copy the student name information.

8. Go to Excel and paste this information under Last Name column.

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To Create a Class by importing a Class List from NCWISE9. Select the Past dropdown menu under the Home menu

10. Select Use the Text Import Wizard

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To Create a Class by importing a Class List from NCWISE

11. Click Next for Step 1 of 3 in the Text Import Wizard

12. Under Delimiters, check the box beside Comma Only

13. Click Next

14. Click Finish for Step 3 of 3 n the Text Import Wizard

15. Copy the names in column D

16. Paste under the First Name column


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To Create a Class by importing a Class List from NCWISE1. Go to Teacher Tools

2. Click Add a Class in the Gradebook area on the left

3. Complete the Class Information boxes and then click Add

4. Click the Student tab

5. Click the Import button, and then select Students.

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To Create a Class by importing a Class List from NCWISE6. In the Import Dialog box, select the class you which to import the student list into

7. Click Next

8. Select Microsoft Excel from the Import list, and then click Next.

9. Browse to and select the .xls or .xlsx file containing the class list, and click Open

Save to Google Drive

Questions

Let's upload our saved files to

DriveSetup Checklist

Setup Checklist

The receiver is connected to the computer that you use to display your SMART Notebook questions.

All lights on the receiver are green.

Your name & Classroom name are visible on your screen when Teacher Tools software is open

The Classroom name displayed in Teacher Tools is something your students will associate with you , regardless of your location in the building.

The side menu of the Teacher Tools Gradebook view contains the classes you teach

The Students tab for each class contains student names and information.

Each student has been assigned a unique Student ID that they will remember

Creating Assessments

Creating Assessments

Understand and be able to create the different SMART Notebook pages when designing a lesson for use with SMART Response

Be able to edit assessments

Be able to import existing assessments

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Creating AssessmentsSMART Response tools integrated into SMART Notebook interface:

> Response Menu

> SMART Response Assessment Software Tab

> Insert Question button

> Start Assessment button


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Types of SMART Notebook Pages1. Question pages present questions that require a response using clicker.

> True/False

> Yes/No

> Multiple Choice

> Numerical answer

> Text

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Types of SMART Notebook Pages2. Content Pages used to present lesson content in conjunction with assessment. Do NOT require student use of clickers.

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Types of SMART Notebook Pages3. Title pages connect question and content pages together in a group called a question set

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Deciding Where to Place a Title PageA Title Page signals the beginning of a question set. The results from each question are stored and made available for review.

If you do NOT place a title page in front of a question page, that question is treated as its own question set. Results will display immediately after each question is delivered. These results are NOT stored.

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Deciding Where to Place a Title Page

TC

Q

Title pageContent Page

Question Page

T Q Q Q C C C Q QExample 1:

Example 2:

Q Q Q C C C C T Q Q

Example 3:T Q Q Q C C C C T Q Q

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Creating an Assessment

Step 1: Create a Title Page

Step 2: Add question pages/content pages

Step 3: End the question set*Tips:

1. If you want all informal assessments excluded from your students' reported grades, create an assessment type labeled Informal.

2. Add tags to allow you to compare student results based on type of questions.

3. You can rearrange pages of your question set by using the Page Sorter tab.

4. To set the correct answers to all questions at once, select Response> Set All Answers


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Importing Existing Assessments

Types of documents:

1. SMART Response Assessments

2. Microsoft Word Documents

Delivering Assessments

Delivering Assessments

Be able to prepare to deliver an assessment

Be able to connect clickers

Be able to start assessment

Be able to monitor assessment

Be able to end assessment

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Preparing to Deliver an Assessment

To Open an Assessment:

1. Open SMART Notebook by selecting SMART Response, and select Ask Questions.

2. Select File>Open.

3. Click Open

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Preparing to Deliver an Assessment

To Start a Class:

1. Select Response > Start Class and select a class folder to store response in.

2. Ensure that your Classroom name is indicated.

3. Click close* If you don't want to store or identify student responses, select Anonymous Mode

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Connecting Clickers

After you start a class, you students use their clickers to wirelessly connect to your computer.1. Remind students of your Classroom name.

2. Instruct them to join your class by selecting your Classroom name and pressing Enter

3. Instruct students to enter Student ID

4. Instruct students to confirm that the name that appears on clicker is their own. If it is, press Enter to sign in. If not, select N and press Enter to reenter Student ID.

5. Check to see that all student clickers display Welcome to [your Classroom Name], [their name.]

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Delivering an Assessment

1. Select Response> Start Assessment (Green light appears on SMART Response tab and the elapse time counter starts in Progress area


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Monitoring an Assessment

1. Press the SMART Response Assessment Software tab

2. Press the Progress button

3. Monitor the number of students who have answered

4. Press Show to see who you are still waiting for

5. Press the Next Page to advance to the next question

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Ending an Assessment

• Prevents students from entering or revising responses

• Calculates grade, based on questions answered correctly out of total assessment.

• Displays each student's assessment grade on clicker (optional)

• Causes a Result area to replace the Progress area

• Saves student responses in your Teacher Tools teacher file (unless in Anonymous mode)

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Ending an Assessment

1. Ensure all students have responded to all the questions

2. Press Stop this Assessment in the Progress area.

Stopping a Class

Select Response> Stop Class in the SMART Notebook top menu

Evaluating Assessments

Evaluating Assessments

Be able to review results with your class

Be able to evaluate assessment results

Be able to evaluate student performance

Be able to create performance reports

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To View & Compare Stored Assessment Results

1. Open Teacher Tools

2. Select a Class from the Gradebook side menu

3. Click the Assessment tab.

4. Ensure that the Privacy option is set to off to view specific grade details.

5. Click an assessment

6. Use the Performance tab to display results of each questions. Use the Results tab to view student grades.

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Evaluating Student Performance

To view how each student responded to each question in an assessment:

1. Open SMART Notebook assessment file

2. Navigate to a question page

3. Click the SMART Response Assessment Software tab.

4. Click the Results button

5. Click Show in the Details section of Results area


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Evaluating Student PerformanceTo view & compare stored student results:

1. Open Teacher Tools

2. Select a Class from the Gradebook side menu

3. Click the Student tab to display all students enrolled in your class

4. Ensure that the Privacy option is set to off to view specific performance and grade details.

5. Click a student name in top pane.

6. Use the Performance tab to graph a student's assessment results over a period of time. Use the Results tab to view detailed statistics for individual assessments.

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Creating Performance Reports1. Open Teacher Tools

2. Click Reports in the Gradebook side menu

3. Select either Student Performance or Class Performance in the Reports list

4. Use the dropdown menus to select the criteria for the report

5. Click Browse to select a location to save the report

6. Click Create

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Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Click on the Anticipation Guide link and join room "dcsitflee".

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Click on the link to create an account.

*You can change your room "number" to a room "name" so that students can easily remember which room to join.

Socrative Teacher Account

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Types of Questions • Multiple Choice

• True/False

• Short Answer

QuizBased Activities

• Student Paced Quiz

• Teacher Paced Quiz

• Exit Ticket

• Space Race

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Create a 3 question formative assessment

Click on the Exit Ticket link and join room "dcsitflee".

Creating an Assessment with Socrative

http://m.socrative.com/lecturer/#lecturerLogin


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Forms

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FormativeAssessmentBrainstorming

Thinkaboutformativeassessment.RecordasmanywordsorphrasesthatdescribeformativeassessmentintheGoogleForm.

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PyramidofAssessment

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graded role playdescriptive feedbacklearning activities

Sort the assessments into the following categories

Formative Classroom Assessment

Formative Common Assessment

Summative Assessment

Labelungraded workteacher observationsdiscussionsquestionsinterviews9 weeks assessmentsNC End of Grade TestsEnglish language proficiency test

student reflections/journalsmidterm

assessmentsvocabulary quizTechnology TestWriting TestsNC End of Course

Teststeacher/textbook

quizzes

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CreatingaGoogleForm

1.GotoyourGoogleDrive.

2.Selectthe Createdrop‐downmenu.

3.Select Form.

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EditaGoogleForm

http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html


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SharingGoogleForm

The"frontend"oftheformcanbesharedwithindividualsthroughemailorprovidingthemwiththeformlink.

Feb 2311:14 PM

The"backend"orspreadsheetviewoftheformcanbesharedwithindividualsbyselectingthe Share icon.

SharingGoogleForm

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Analyzing/ManipulatingData

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Sort the assessments into the following categories

Formative Classroom Assessment

Formative Common Assessment

Summative Assessment

Label

ungraded work

teacher observations

descriptive feedback

discussions

learning activities

questions

student reflections/journals

interviews

9 weeks assessments

NC End of Grade Tests

English language proficiency test

graded role play NC End of Course Tests

midterm assessments

teacher/textbook quizzes

vocabulary quiz

Technology Test

Writing Tests

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Attachments

Smart Response Example Test.docx

1. According to U.S. Census Bureau, the majority of poor children live in:

a. urban areas

b. suburban areas

c. rural areas

2. Can you fill a 10 L aquarium with five 2 L pitchers of water?

Yes

No

3. True or false: Half of all even whole numbers are divisible by 4.

True

False

4. Let x=3. Compute y from the equation below.

Y=20 – 4x

Answer: ______________________________

SMART Notebook

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