Technique 20: Exit Ticket

(Part of Chapter 3: Structuring and Delivering Your Lessons)

End each class with one more At Bat -- an Exit Ticket that checks to see if the students mastered the lesson of the day.  These exit tickets are: 1) quick: one to three questions, 2) turned in, so that you can see if they got it that day, 3) designed to yield data.  "This means the questions are fairly simple and focus on one key part of the objective." (p. 106)

My response:

This is a standard method of Formative Assessment, as I understand it. It allows a teacher to assess quickly his/her own effectiveness, and alter his/her teaching to ensure that students are making consistent progress.  Using clickers or some other on-line tool (Google forms or ClassQue) would make it easy to see quickly how many students mastered the material, and which ones struggled and in which ways.)  I really need to do this.