6. What is Socrative
Socrative (www.socrative.com) is an assessment tool,
which makes quizzes as games (Thornthwaite,
2014).
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7. What is Socrative
• Socrative is a combination of both Flubaroo and Kahoot.
• It allows teachers to quiz students and gives feedback similar to Flubaroo
(www.flubaroo.com) (McMullen, 2015).
• On the other hand, it allows teachers to create a competition like Kahoot
(www.kahoot.com) (McMullen, 2015).
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9. Price
It has two versions:
Free version: basic
features; for example, it allows
50 students at a time.
Upgrade version
($59/y): having special
features. It allows 150 students
at a time.
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10. Teaches can engage the students with
lots of activities-
- launch a quiz
- ask a quick question for
instant student feedback.
- Receive 'Exit Tickets'
- Class count (see how many
students are logged in)
Description
(Activities)
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12. Description
Quizzes (cont.)
• Students will give exam individually or collaboratively.
• Teachers have the option to make the quiz student paced or teacher paced.
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13. Description
Quizzes (cont.)
• Teachers also have the option to import either a shared quiz or the template
of a quiz.
• For the shared quiz, the SOC number (Socrative number) is needed, which
other teachers may have made available.
• For importing quizzes from an Excel template, teachers need to work
through a browser, not just the app.
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15. Description
(Rooms)
• When teachers create account,
students get a room number.
• Students will enter the room with that
number.
• For the upgrade version, students
also need their ID number to log in.
• When students log onto the room,
teachers page always show that.
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16. Description
(Rooms) (cont.)
• Multiple Rooms
Teachers can create up to ten rooms. It will help them to facilitate multiple
classes, remote and blended learning and differentiated instruction (socrative
pro only).
• Rostering
It allows roster automatically or teacher can do manually.
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17. Description
(Space Race)
• Space Race’ will help the students
to take part in the competition
with a different group. It especially
works well when the teacher
introduces a new concept, or a
limited number of devices are
available.
• This is where gaming and fun
really come into play.
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18. Description
(Space Race) (cont.)
• Teachers can select a quiz, as they do in the quiz section, but now they also
have the option of selecting up to ten teams. Students then compete against
each other.
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19. Description
(Space Race) (cont.)
• During the quiz, teachers can project the results so students can watch the
small rockets moving across the board.
• After the quiz has been finished, teachers receive reports in the same way
they did for the other, more formal quiz.
• Elementary and high school students alike love competing in this way
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22. Description
(Feedback)
• For informal assessment, the teacher allows students to get instant feedback.
With that feedback, students can understand their mistake/s.
• For summative assessment, students will get the report after finishing the
exam.
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23. Description
(Students' Performance)
• Students instantly submit
their answers
• Only once students need ID
number.
• Students names are
displayed in the header.
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24. Description
(Exit Ticket)
• Exit Ticket allows teachers to design their own templates or to use an Exit
Ticket template, designed by Socrative.
• It helps teachers to finish the exam.
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25. Practical Benefit
(Usability)
• Instruction goals are fully met with this tool.
• It creates safe learning environment.
• It crafts differentiated learning.
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26. Practical Benefit
(User Friendly Design)
• This site is very user friendly designed
• Site is easy to navigate
• Help guide and tutorial is available and clear
• Tools and features are appropriately located
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27. Practical Benefit
(Reliability)
• It is very reliable
• Site is always available especially at the peak time of the day
• Navigation between pages are quick and easy
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28. Practical Benefit
(Tour and Screenshots Availability)
• Feature list, screenshots, demo are available before registering.
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29. Practical Benefit
(Fun Factor)
• Socrative is a website, where students take part in quizzes in an enjoyable
way.
• The quizzes are like games.
• Elementary and high school students alike love to participate in quizzes in
this way.
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30. Practical Benefit
(Time Management and Workload)
• Track who are participating in the quiz
• Students result and track their progress
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31. Practical Benefit
(Privacy)
• For students under 13 year's old, this site handled personal information
according to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA").
• For students over 13year's old, personal information will be treated in
accordance with the Mastery Connect Privacy Policy .
• When students log in to this site, the teacher is required to provide consent
to the collection and use of personal information form according to
COPPA, and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”).
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32. Practical Benefit
(Maintenance)
• Site is well maintained and
information is up to date.
• It has Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest
and You-Tube account.
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33. Educational Benefit
(SAMR Model)
• According to SAMR
model, Socrative is in
Modification zone
(Davis, 2015).
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34. Educational Benefits
• Socrative is a fun way to judge students’ understanding prior knowledge
regarding a new topics (Thronthwaite, 2014).
• It is also used for formative or summative assessment.
• It is appropriate for the BYOD (bring you own device) model because it can
be access through laptop, iPad, iPod, even mobile phone.
• It can be used when there are limited number of devices. Because it allows to
multiple students to submit answers from single device
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35. Educational Benefits (cont.)
• Multiple choice, true/false, or short question- answers can be created
through Socrative.
• questions can be made with or without a picture.
• There is also an explanation button, which give students clues to predict the
right answer.
• Socrative is the right tool to measure the students’ immediate response and
their long term learning outcome.
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36. Educational Benefits (cont.)
• This can be used across all subject areas.
• Students will achieve higher score generating questions through socrative
than the traditional pen-paper exam (Chou et al., 2017) .
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37. Practical Challenges
• No contact information is given. Only for pro account email support and
dedicated help center is provided.
• Site has no recognition outside of owner.
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38. Educational Challenges
• Socrative does not support uploading audio tracks or video files in quizzes.
• Free account has only one room. Therefore, differentiated instruction may
not possible with this free account.
• It allows only fifty students at a time (for free account).
• Only for pro account there is dedicated help center.
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40. References
• Chou, P., Chang, C. & Lin, C. (2017). BYOD or not: A comparison of two
assessment strategies for student learning. Computers in Human Behavior, 74, 63-71.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.04.024
• Davis, A. (2015). INFUSING INTO TEACHING AND LEARNING. The Journal
of Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria, 2 (2)
• McMullen, k. (2014). Using technology to make assessment engaging, efficient and
effective. The Journal of Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria, 2 (2).
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41. References
• Socrative. (2017). from https://www.socrative.com/
• Technology for Teachers and Students (Producer). (2015). Socrative Tutorial
2015 NEW. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlnI1f-
Q1JM
• Thornthwaite, C. (2014). Not a Toy, but a Tool: An Educator’s Guide for
Understanding and Using iPads. Rowman & Littlefield.
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Research shows that there is a many benefits of using games in the classroom (Thornthwaite, 2014).
A recent article titled “8 Research Findings Supporting the Benefits of Gamification in Education” showed many benefits of using games in the classroom (Walsh, 2012, cited in Thornthwaite, 2014).
One website includes the following statement: “Games in the hands of a skilled and experienced teacher can achieve magical results” (Tawse, 2009, cited in Thornthwaite, 2014).
Search and short quiz
Teachers can quickly find, copy or download any quiz from A-Z list.
For multiple choice questions, students are given five choices: A B C D and E. students will select one of them.
For true-false answer, students will give two option. They will pick one.
For short answer-questions, students will write down the answer and then click the submit button.
Teachers have the option to add answers to short-answer questions and then let the system grade the answers.
Review students' understanding at the class, individual student or question level. Because, each socrative report is saved in teachers' account and they can easily download, email or save in google doc.
Teachers can share result with parents, students or colleague.
Teachers can find information according to activity, date or individual student
Once students submit the answer, a bar chart immediately appears on the teachers screens.
Teacher can save the progress
At the completion of the quiz, teachers receive emailed spreadsheets, with detailed reports on the results.
At any point during the quiz, teachers can tap on the Live Results bar and see exactly who is taking the quiz, as well as the number of answers that each student has answered correctly.
Teachers can visualize students'' performance in real time. Moreover, instant feedback will help them to take the next step of their instruction.
