Comment on Google Forms and CCSS

Google Forms is a tool that can be used for teachers gathering data from students and the community as well as delivering online assessments to students. The data collected from Google Forms can directly go into a Google Spreadsheet, where it can be analyzed, organized, and displayed in Gadgets and charts.

There are many ways for teachers to use it in the classroom, the following are some examples:

1. Teachers can create questionnaires and surveys to obtain information about students.
2. Teachers can manage parent contact logs out of it
3. Teachers can design self-grading student quiz with it
4. Teachers can create discipline forms to track students’ attendance or behavior.

All data and information can be e-mailed directly to the parents and shared with other school faculties.

For a math teacher, he/she can ask students to create questions for other classes to answer - they collaborated on the same Google Form. After the other classes took the survey, they graphed the results as part of their math unit on graphing. As what is required in Common Core State Standard, students make “strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data.”

For a language teacher, he/she can ask students to use Google Forms to create their own questionnaires about a unit of work. Students will have the opportunities to extend and/or strengthen their understanding in creating effective questions. Students can then complete other students' quizzes to boost their understanding again. It could be created and/or completed during lesson time or as a homework activity. According to Common Core State Standard, students will be able to “conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.”