Web 2.0 for Formative Assessments

There are many tools that a teacher can use to administer formative assessments.  It is not surprising to me that after looking around the web a person can find them just about anywhere.  There is a lot of technology in my own classroom that I even like to use for it.  Our school has activ board and the remotes that allow for student response.  Activ Inspire has a quick quiz poll that allows for a teacher to set up a question allowing for a number, text, or letter answer.  Once the teacher has posed the question and allowed time for student response the program records the student response. Teachers can see a class bar graph showing answers.  What I do as  formative assessment is basically a pretest, mid unit test, and review.  The questions are posed and the students submit answers.  I monitor the answers form the class alone.  As a class we discuss what was the right answer and why the others are wrong.  We share our responses and thoughts as a class.  Once we are done with the entire quiz I am able to print out the individual answers, pre graded by color of each individual student.  I am able to see which students need greater instruction or if there is a common problem that needs to be retaught to the class as a whole.  Formative assessment is great for the teacher to do a check on their teaching as well as their students understandings.