Socrative

Quick Facts:

• Grade Level(s): K-12 and Higher Education Versions

• Price:  Offers a Free and Annual Subscription ($29.99) Version

• Device Accessibility: Online, App Store, Chrome Web store, and Google Play.

Features: This section is a list of all of the features that are available in the Free Version of Socrative.

• Assessments: Quizzes and Exit Tickets

• Space Races:  A competitive assessment method that encourages collaboration to correctly answer questions the fastest.

• On the fly quick questions that can be used to check for understanding thought a lesson or class period.

• Digital Reports: Review student understanding at the class, individual student, or question-level.

• Each report is cataloged, saved, and can be downloaded and shared with students and parents.

• Student Experience: Students instantly submit answers and feedback directly to the instructor in a clean, intuitive interface.

• Up to 50 students can participate in the Free Version.

Usage:

This program is a great way to turn assessments into fun learning activities that create instant results that can be used to alter instruction on the spot, create dialogue with students based off quizzes and instant question feature, and create a collaborative gaming environment with the Space Race Quiz.  With the downloadable results, discussions with students and teachers can happen without taking the time to mainly grade work.  Students can also provide instant feedback on what they have learned in the classroom so teachers can adjust instruction within a lesson as needed.  A great example is taking a stop and jot, take would normally be in a journal that’s reviewed once a marking period, can now be digitally collected and reviewed as answers are submitted through the Quick Question Feature.

Design:

Students don’t need an account, they are able to login via the app or website with a code generated by the program for that day’s session.  With the paid version, class periods can have their own “room” (similar to Google Classroom).  Collaboration is used in a number of formats, primarily to help a teacher adjust instruction based off student feedback and level or learning/understanding.  Results Space Race, Spot Question, Quizzes, and Exit Ticket features can not only help a teacher adjust instruction, but lead to class discussions to evaluate why a question generated specific types of responses.

Relation:

Two programs that are very similar to Socrative are Google Forms and Kahoot.  Both of those programs allow for assessment of knowledge and instant feedback that can be used to adjust instruction.  With Google Forms (and the Flubaroo Add-On) a teacher can ask questions and get digitally graded responses that are sent of the teacher and student.  The drawback, in comparison to Socrative, is that this format is more students to Pre/Post Test for chapters and units.  It is also not as engaging or fun to use as Google Forms really doesn’t have a competitive feature to it.  Kahoot, on the other hand is completely competitive with quizzes that are timed and scored with a leader board and Top 3 Medals Feature.  The drawback for Kahoot is that it doesn’t generate a data sheet of correct/incorrect answers that can be used for instruction.

Reflection:

Socrative creates an interactive and fun way for me to assess my student’s knowledge, get feedback on instruction, and create a different setting for my students to collaborate on what they have learned in class.  Students can also get involved by collaborating to create question that can be in a quiz or Space Race, therefore giving them ownership in the use of the program.  Overall this has been program that has generated a fun and collaborative learning environment in my classroom.