More support for your "Formative Assessment Process Toolkit"

We're here to take you through Utah State Board of Education’s 2023 "Formative Assessment Process Toolkit" with the aid of Derivita’s SpotCheck one step at a time. 

Hopefully, armed with both this toolkit and SpotCheck you can create, manage, and deploy formative assessments quickly and easily in your math classroom on a daily basis!

Download the USBE "Formative Assessment Process Toolkit" here:

Check back on Derivita's Blog Tuesdays to see the latest blog post on how to best utilize SpotCheck to support your instructional practices and the creation of digital formative assessments in your daily math classroom. 

Step 5: Providing actionable feedback 

Step 5 in the formative assessment toolkit allows “students to review, revise, and assess their understanding as part of the process of learning”. 

SpotCheck offers students a chance to review, revise, and assess their solutions and thought processes individually, in a group, with a student partner, with the teacher’s individual assistance, or as an entire class. 

By placing the students’ individual or small group responses on the board to show the entire class with SpotCheck, students get 3 opportunities to review and analyze multiple solutions (both correct and incorrect) and multiple thought processes. 

1. Students get an opportunity to engage with the teacher and the class and explain their response. 
2. Students also get an opportunity to visually see their peers’ responses and hear how their peers arrived at their own solutions. 
3. Teachers can showcase a step-by-step process of how they expected students to think about the projected problem and how they, as the teacher, arrived at the correct solution. 

Each of these opportunities allows students to accomplish the following:

• Compare/ Contrast their thought process with that of their teacher
• Compare/ Contrast their thought process with that of their peers
• Talk mathematically with their peers and their teacher
• Actively engage in the math classroom
• Claim ownership of their own math learning journey
• Discover their own misconceptions and correct them, without the aid of an instructor
• Discover new ways of approaching how to problem solve

All of these opportunities and goals can happen within the classroom in real time without extensive lesson planning or time spent on one concept or assignment. 

The introduction of a technological tool like SpotCheck can speed up the Formative Assessment process and ensure you know immediately where your students are in their learning process on a daily basis.

How do you elicit student engagement and analyze student thought in your classroom?

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