News — exit tickets

Most physics formative assessment ideas on the internet were written for English class. They tell you to use "exit tickets" and "thumbs up/thumbs down" — which work fine when the answer is a sentence, not a vector diagram. Here are the ones that actually tell you where your physics students are. Formative assessment is the fastest feedback loop you have. Done right, it takes 5-10 minutes at the start or end of class and tells you exactly which students are still multiplying mass by velocity instead of force. Done wrong, it's busywork that generates data you never look at. This...