Exit tickets are quick formative assessment tools that you can use in your elementary classroom. This is a great way to check your student’s understanding, emphasize key takeaways from your lesson, and help you plan extension activities or differentiated instruction for future lessons! Try wrapping up your next lesson with these as a form of informal educational assessment.
Finishing up your lesson and ready for a quick check-in with your students to evaluate their learning? Try using exit tickets! These are one of my favourite informal educational assessment tools. I mean, seriously, look at how cute they are! I’ve included a snapshot of my Admit One Movie Ticket template (pictured above) to give you an idea of what these tickets are all about.
What Are Exit Tickets?
Exit tickets are a simple type of formative assessment. They give your students a chance to reflect on the day’s lesson and to demonstrate what they have learned.
The picture above is just one example. The options are truly endless! Variations are listed at the bottom of this article if you’re looking for more ideas.
How to Use Exit Tickets as Informal Educational Assessment
Quizzes, tests, and projects are just some of the ways that we can assess our student’s learning. While these options may make sense in some scenarios, sometimes you just need a quick check-in to gauge your student’s learning at the end of a lesson.
By using exit tickets, you can bring your students back to the beginning of a lesson while assessing how well they understood the day’s content. If you would like to emphasize a specific takeaway, this is a great way to highlight that, too.
Another reason that I love this type of informal assessment is just that – It’s informal! These tickets are a low-stakes way of assessing where students can demonstrate their learning in a fun and non-stressful way.
Teachers can also use these tickets for future planning. Perhaps a few students missed the main point during your lesson. Now you know who to have an extra check-in (or lesson recap) with. If lots of them exemplify this, then you can create an extra consolidation activity before moving on to the next lesson. On the flip side, some students may show exceptional understanding of the content. If that’s the case, you may consider providing an extension activity for them!
Variations
Exit tickets don’t always have to be physical copies of assessment. They can be verbal, too! On the flip side, you could use one of the many online versions of these slips (or create your own!), including online options!
Online Assessment
There are lots of easy ways to check your student’s understanding online. Here are three ideas you could try:
- A Google Form or Google Poll
- I love these because if you’re on Google Classroom they are super easy to attach to an assignment!
- Pear Deck is a fun and interactive way to keep your students engaged during online lessons. You could easily pop an exit ticket into the end of your presentation!
- Socrative is another engaging online tool. The best part? They have exit tickets built right in!
Exit Ticket Prompt Ideas
Looking for prompt ideas? I’ve got you, friend! Here are ten ways you could check for understanding:
- “The most important thing that I learned today was…”
- “My top two takeaways from today were…”
- “I was confused by…”
- “If I had to rate my work ethic today, I would give it a __/10.”
- “I would like to learn more about…”
- “What could I (the teacher) do to help you learn better?”
- “Tomorrow, I could help myself learn better by…”
- “Summarize today’s lesson in three points:”
- “I agree/disagree with today’s lesson because…”
- “Which parts of the lesson did you find easy? Which parts were difficult?”
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