An engaging, quick way to guage student understanding

How I Use It

Plickers is a great tool to gauge student learning in order to drive instruction. It can be used as an entrance ticket at the beginning of instruction, as a formative assessment during instruction, and as an exit ticket at the end of instruction. AND it does not require students to have devices! Only the teacher needs a device and that can be his/her phone. All students need is a piece of paper with a code on it that is printed out by the teacher. I have used Pickers to keep students engaged in content throughout a lesson to check for understanding. I have used it after small group work sessions to check students' learning and comfort after a small group activity. Sometimes I had my questions formulated and other times, I used it on the fly to check for understanding when I had a concern about student understanding of a concept.