Student Post: Katie Pierceall - Using Games as an Assessment Tool

Have you ever been extremely bored or distracted when taking an assessment? Your mind is either running rapidly with thoughts that do not pertain to the content of a test or you just can't seem to focus. No worries folks, technology has a solution! I present assessment games through digital resources; it's absolutely life-changing. Now that we live in the modern age, plenty of websites have been formed to aid in typical concerns when taking an assessment. Resources like Blooket

 (Links to an external site.) and Quizizz (Links to an external site.) are taking classrooms by storm, and it's justified. These websites offer a flexible quizzing process through games and competition, actually motivating the students. Blooket is a quiz-like game that earns you points/coins that you can use on other classmates. Quizizz is a question/answer game, similar to Kahoot!, but in a fun and new digital format. 

In my opinion, this is the future of assessment. Although it's significant to utilize paper-pencil tests to model future assessments students will be required to take (state testing, driver's test, etc.), we should also utilize digital resources that can be at our disposal. If you have access to technology, you should use it within your classroom to increase student engagement and participation; this can easily be done through assessment.