Brightbytes: Use Digital Assessments Strategically

Based on our Brightbytes data all of our schools are in a good place to consider how to use digital assessments strategically. Many district teachers are already using digital assessments regularly with students.

Formative assessment is a great tool to support the learning process and provide students with timely, personalized feedback. Technology tools, such as discussion boards (Padlet) and polls (Kahoot/Forms),  give us a greater range of options and efficiency in assessing students throughout the learning process.

It is important to select tools strategically—whether they’re technology-based or not. The following questions can be a simple metric for assessing the appropriateness of a strategy:

• What am I looking to assess?
• How can this tool save me time and provide reliable data?
• What can I learn about student knowledge and needs by using this tool that I can't learn using other techniques?

Please share your favorite digital assessment tools and how you use them to support your instructional practice and provide feedback to students.