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Formative assessment

Formative assessment tools that show you what to reteach

Make a short check from today's lesson material. See which questions the class missed and who needs help, then reteach and check again.

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Animation: the photosynthesis Quiz Stats count up attempts and the average score and show how scores are spread. The question chart shows Q3 at 38 percent; a click opens who answered it and how, with Leo Garcia's wrong answer highlighted.

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Definition

What is formative assessment?

Formative assessment is a set of short, low-stakes checks of understanding that teachers use during a unit to decide what to teach next. Exit tickets, short quizzes, and quick questions in class are common examples. The results guide teaching rather than a final grade.

When
During a unit, while there is still time to change the teaching.
Purpose
To find what students understand and what to teach again.
Stakes
Low. Results guide teaching rather than a final grade.
Summative assessment
Comes at the end of a unit and measures what students learned overall.

The formative loop

Check, see, reteach, check again

Formative assessment works when the results change the next lesson. QuizRise covers every step of the loop.

Step 1: Check

Make a short check from today's lesson

Upload the slides, PDF, or video you just taught. QuizRise drafts the questions for you to review and edit.

  • Choose the question types, the difficulty, and how many
  • Add a timer, or shuffle questions and answers
Animation: with a photosynthesis chapter PDF attached, a teacher picks Multiple choice and 5 questions, and clicks Create Quiz. Five questions about photosynthesis appear, ready to review and share.

Step 2: Share

Share it with your class

Share the quiz with a classroom and email your students. They take it in class or at home, at their own pace.

  • Allow one attempt or many
  • Turn flashcards and summaries on for practice
Animation: a teacher shares the photosynthesis quiz with the classroom audience and emails the joined students. The view switches to a student, who reads the summary, answers a question and sees Correct.

Step 3: See and reteach

Find the idea the class mixed up

The report shows which question the class missed and which answers they chose instead. Fix that idea in the study set's summary before the next lesson.

  • See correct answers by question at a glance
  • Edit the summary and study set to reteach the idea
Animation: the answers to Q3, which 38 percent of the class got right, show that most students chose ATP instead of RuBisCO. The teacher opens the lesson summary, highlights the Calvin cycle paragraph and adds a note: RuBisCO fixes carbon dioxide, ATP only powers it.

Step 4: Check again

Confirm the reteach worked

Students take the quiz again. Quiz Reports lists every attempt, so you can find a student and open the new answers next to the old score.

  • Search attempts by student name or email
  • Open any attempt to see each answer and the right one
Animation: in Quiz Reports a teacher searches for Leo Garcia and sees his two attempts, 45 a week ago and 80 now. View details on the new attempt shows the Calvin cycle question he missed before, now answered RuBisCO and marked correct.
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Examples

Formative assessment examples you can run this week

Each example shows the classroom idea and how to run it in QuizRise.

Choosing a tool

What to look for in a formative assessment tool

A good tool makes the check quick and makes the next step clear.

Built from your own material
Questions that follow what you taught, from slides, PDFs, documents, web pages, videos, or recordings.
Results by question
Accuracy and time for each question, so you can see which idea to teach again.
Results by student
Each student's attempts and answers, so you can find who needs help.
A paper option
A printable quiz and answer key for lessons without devices.
Little prep time
A check you can make in minutes, so it fits into every lesson rather than once a term.

What teachers and learners say

"Thank you!"

Very good experience and very good content coverage

Pros

It is quite accurate and not too repetitive.

"Neat tool with lots of promise"

Pros

Being able to use a PDF or YouTube video to generate questions for a quiz is very useful!

"Awesome ideas"

Awesome ideas for helping students and youth groups to learn easily.

Pros

It's very easy to use and the multiple way of helping prepare the questions are really great.

"Excellent AI tool for creating quizzes and flashcards quickly"

Overall, QuizRise has become one of my favourite productivity tools for creating educational content. Instead of spending hours writing quizzes from scratch, I can focus on reviewing and refining the generated material. It combines AI automation with enough flexibility to make it genuinely useful for both teachers and students. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who regularly creates quizzes, revision materials, or study resources.

Pros

QuizRise has saved me a huge amount of time when creating learning materials. I especially like how I can upload PDFs, lecture notes, websites, or YouTube videos and have quizzes, flashcards, and summaries generated within seconds. The interface is clean and intuitive, making it easy to edit the AI-generated content before using it with students. The ability to export quizzes and share them with others is also very useful. As a teacher, it has significantly streamlined my workflow while still giving me full control over the final content.

"Best app for students (and probably teachers, too!)"

I am very glad I ran into this app. My mom, who is a teacher, told me about it.

Pros

Easiest way to study for an exam. That extra help I need right before.

"Best Experience 👌 "

It is amazing their AI gives you answers to the quizzes and flashcards .In other sites you have to choose the answers yourself

Pros

I love the fact that they not only give you quizzes but it comes with flashcards, summaries helping you understand content alot better

"First experience"

Was good, I recommended it to my colleagues but surprisingly after first trial of it, it asked me to pay i thought paying for extra questions only

Pros

Professional questions and involving important points of the file uploaded

"Good product"

Pros

Makes studying easier, It creates flashcards if you upload pdf

"A Fun and Engaging Learning Experience"

I had a great time using QuizRise! It's a fantastic tool for anyone looking to learn new things in a fun and interactive way. The platform is user-friendly, and the quizzes are well-designed.

Pros

I loved how QuizRise made learning fun and interactive. The quizzes were engaging, and the gamification elements made me want to learn more.

"first impression of the app"

Pros

As a new app user, I find the feature to be better and easier to use than others. It has been constructive for my master's degree studies.

"QuizRise is good as you will discover a new, and effective way to create and share or interact with content "

easy to share the test and flash back and desire format and enjoy accessibility. provide simple and direct way for as to access and interact with our content. you can share test with student or team members through a link or easy embed them on your website.

Pros

the technology or application that as the users can transform content into test or can personalize their test and share it in web

"Everything is good but it can be cheaper for first customers"

Thank you very much. In fact when I do not use QuizRise, I loose time for questions

Pros

easy usage, quick solution, question library

"QuizRise A Boon or Bane"

My overall experience with QuizRise despite using the free trial is still great and would definitely recommend it to my colleagues

Pros

QuizRise offers various services but I really like the way that QuizRise helped me to create assessment for my upcoming exams to serve as my reviewers.

"Exccellent"

QuizRise has made it incredibly easy for me to convert my educational materials into quizzes quickly and effortlessly. The AI-powered platform generates various types of questions, including multiple-choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank, from texts, PDFs, and URLs. As an educator, this tool has significantly streamlined my workflow and saved me a lot of time. The customization and editing options for quizzes are excellent, allowing for a personalized touch. I highly recommend QuizRise!

Pros

An easy-to-use application tutorial for homework

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Questions about formative assessment

Formative assessment tools help teachers check understanding during a unit and decide what to teach next. They range from low-tech strategies such as exit tickets and think-pair-share to digital tools that make quizzes and show results by question and by student.

A common list is diagnostic, formative, interim, benchmark, and summative assessment. The names vary between schools, but the difference is when the assessment happens and what the results are used for.

Exit tickets, short quizzes, think-pair-share, one-minute papers, and hinge questions during a lesson. Each one gives quick evidence of what students understand, so you can adjust the next step.

Exit tickets, pre-unit checks, misconception hunts, reteach and recheck cycles, retrieval practice, video checks, paper quizzes, think-pair-share, one-minute papers, and thumbs up or down. The examples section on this page explains how to run each one.

Formative assessment happens during learning and guides teaching. Summative assessment happens at the end of a unit and measures what was learned. A science teacher explains how she uses both in AI-powered formative assessment.

Yes. Print the quiz and a separate answer key with the printable quiz maker and mark it by hand. Printed quizzes are not scored in the app.

No. Students take quizzes at their own pace, in class or at home, and you see the results in the report. QuizRise also does not have open-ended questions; it makes multiple choice, true or false, and fill-in-the-blank questions.

Yes. QuizRise writes questions from the material you upload, but AI can make mistakes. Review and edit the questions before you share a quiz.

Run your next formative check from today's lesson

Upload the material you just taught, share a short quiz, and see what to teach next.

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