Assessment for learning, using tools like daily quizzes and interactive questions during lessons, helps to improve retention and provide insight into learner understanding.
Easily assess your audience
Frequent assessments are an excellent way to enhance the learning process
Administer short quizzes at any time
Use immediate results to encourage lively discussions
Seeing how everyone else in the class answered a question can liberate learners to participate. This works especially well to open a dialogue on potentially controversial subjects.
Grade quizzes, mid-terms and finals instantly
When TurningPoint is used for exams, grading is complete the moment participants hit submit. Question types include multiple choice, numeric response, short answer, hotspot, and more.
FERPA-compliant software ensures data is secure
Keeping your data safe and secure is a top priority. TurningPoint employs industry best practices to ensure end-to-end security, so that you never have to worry about the security of data.
Studying by itself isn't as helpful as you might think
Adding repeated testing to the learning process has been shown to enhance long-term retention by 19%
Karpicke, J.D., & Roediger, H.L. (2006). Repeated retrieval during learning is key to long-term retention. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 151- 162.
TurningPoint offers multiple avenues to assess your participants, including real-time results and pre/post-assessments
Real-time results
Gaining immediate feedback from your participants allows you to tailor instruction to their needs. It also provides your learners with an understanding of how their knowledge of material compares to their peers.
Schedule pre- and post-assessments
You can use the scheduling feature in TurningPoint to easily assess your participants before and after your presentation.
Self-paced testing
Build a self-paced test, administer it and review results—all within one platform. Participants can utilize our mobile app to respond or our QWERTY-keyboard clicker.