Student Response and Assessment Tools

Lesson Idea Name: Personal Finance

Content Area: Social Studies
Grade Level(s): 8th
Content Standard Addressed:
SS8E3 Explain the principles of effective personal money management.
SS8E3.a Explain that income is the starting point for personal financial management.
SS8E3.b Describe the reasons for and the benefits of a household budget.
SS8E3.c Describe the reasons for and the benefits of savings.
SS8E3.d Describe the uses of debt and associated risks.

Technology Standard Addressed: 1.1c Feedback to Improve Practice: Students use technology to
seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety
of ways.

Selected Technology Tool:

☐ Socrative ☐ iRespond ☒ Quizlet ☐ Plickers ☐ Kahoot! ☐ Office365 Forms

☐ Other:
URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): https://quizlet.com/910932552/personal-finance-
flash-cards/?i=5tm2pw&x=1jqt

Technology that students will use to respond to questions/prompts:

☒ Computer ☐ Hand-held student response system (like iRespond) ☒ Phone ☒ Tablet (such
as iPad)
☒ Other wireless device (such as iPod Touch)
Type of session: both will be used during the instruction phase of this unit, but the use of SRT will
be student-paced
☒ Teacher-Paced ☒ Student-Paced
Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☐ Applying ☐ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐

Creating

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Reflect upon the activity you have planned for the students.
The technology tool you selected for this lesson idea will support ALL students. Thinking about the
UDL principles, how do this activity and the technology tools you selected support and enhance the
learning experience for students in the classroom? (The UDL Wheel may help you identify the ways
this activity and selected technology tool will support the Engagement, Representation, or Action and
Expression components of the UDL framework.) (Delete red directions before submitting to your
Weebly.)
Quizlet allows for different formats of questions including true/false, multiple choice, and short
answer. The variation of different types of study tools goes toward multiple means of representation,
and the study sets can include visual aids, diagrams, and examples of concepts at work. Students can
access the site via many types of devices and utilize software that assists them while using the
website. The games and study features allow students to access information through a variety of ways.
The gamified nature of Quizlet assists students’ motivation and engagement. Students can track their
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progression from starting to learn the information to mastery. There are also collaboration features on
the website that allows students and teachers to share their study tools. The website is customizable to
allow students and teachers to design tools that meet their needs, and there is flexibility in the uses of
the website including pre-assessments, formative assessments, review, reteaching, and as a
supplement to normal classroom activities.
Describe the instructional activities that will occur PRIOR to the SRT activity and how you will
introduce the SRT activity.
Before I use the student response and assessment tool we will discuss personal finance. This informal
assessment will take place during the one week discussion of the basics of personal finance, including
learning about budgeting, income, debt, interest, risk, and savings. We will utilize a combination of
direct instruction utilizing guided notes, deepening and practice activities that include
vocabulary/topic jigsaw (four corners) activity, and scenario case studies with small groups that will
be presented to the class for discussion. At the end of the fifth day, as a closing activity for the initial
content portion of the unit, before we move into the practice and application phase of the unit,
students will utilize the ten Quizlet cards I have created. During the last 20 minutes of the class, each
student will utilize their student laptop, tablet, or cell phone, if none of other options is available, I
will introduce their ticket-out-of-the-door for the day. Students will be familiar to this concept as we
have used it throughout the semester, and I will direct students to the LMS for the link to the study
set. I will explain how helpful Quizlet was while I was in college, and that I have even found
information about topics of interest to me on the website’s study sets without it being for a class.
Students will choose the test option, and will complete the true/false, multiple choice, and short
answer questions. Each student will screenshot their scores and submit them in the closing assignment
for this day’s class.
Describe the purpose of the SRT activity (check all that apply):
☒ Assess prior knowledge ☐ Anticipatory set (Create interest in a topic) ☐ To illuminate
common misconceptions ☐ Formative assessment of content knowledge (for the purpose of
differentiation and mastery for ALL students) ☐ Summative assessment of content knowledge
☒ Test Preparation
☐ Survey/Poll ☐ Discussion starter ☐ “Homework” collection ☒ Other (please explain):
the Quizlet results will signal whether the class needs review of essential information or if the class
can move onto playing the stock market game.

Briefly describe what will happen DURING the SRT activity:

The students will not be allowed any resources for this closing activity. I will circulate around the
room, asking questions for clarification to students who need help, discussing scores with students,
and celebrating those who get all of the questions correct. I will explain the short answer questions do
not have to be word for word correct, but the right answer they see is the formal definition or answer
for our class. I will be noting any topics we need to review the following class period.
Type of questions/prompts used in this activity (check all that apply):
☒ Multiple choice ☐ Multiple select ☒ True/False ☐ Yes/No
☒ Short open-ended response or fill-in-the-blank ☐ Longer open-ended response

If you are unable to provide a working sample of your questions, please list them below (8-10):

Right/Wrong answers: Will there be right/wrong answers to these questions?

☒ Yes ☐ No
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☐ Mixed (Some will have correct answers, others will not.)
Immediate corrective feedback: Will you pre-select correct answers to some of all of the questions
and display correct responses to the class after the SRT activity?
☒ Yes
☐ No
Why or why not?

Describe what will happen AFTER the SRT activity.

After the Quizlet is completed by all students I will review the correct answers with the class, and I
will check their scores. Whatever topics are missed by more than 25% of the class will be reviewed
and practiced again during the next class period.
How will the data be used?
The number or correct and incorrect responses for each question will be gathered through the screen
shot of the student’s scores. With this information, I will assess whether a topic needs to be reviewed
during the next class period. This information is for a formative assessment that can be used for a quiz
grade over the standard. If the class needs to review certain topics, I will discuss the number of
correct/incorrect responses to the questions from each point of the standard.
Describe your personal learning goal for this activity.
I want to use this activity to assess the students learning but also decide whether my teaching was
effective. I will always be open to suggestions for learning activities from my students on how to
improve them, what they liked, and what parts were disliked.
Reflective Practice: I have not thought to utilize Quizlet to figure out whether students currently
know the information. I personally have used the website to help me learn information and to find
answers to specific questions. This website has helped me learn, but I do not utilize it for review as I
will with the students. I have thought about using a Google form for student responses as one of my
professors does, but I have not thought to utilize another tool in this manner. This is also a really
different, to me, way of checking comprehension, and we can utilize it in a quiz-type setting or in a
gamified way.