FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT & EXIT TICKET BUILDER

Collect evidence you can actually use tomorrow.

Choose one quick assessment strategy, decide what evidence you need, and prepare a short exit ticket that informs your next teaching decision.

1. What do you need to find out?

Class / SubjectTopic

Critical learning pointWhat misconception or gap are you watching for?

2. Choose a quick evidence strategy

Hinge question
One carefully chosen question that determines whether you can move on. Mini-whiteboards / all-response
Every student responds so you see the whole class, not volunteers only. Explain to a partner
Students explain a concept or process in their own words. Worked example check
Students identify an error, justify a step or complete a missing stage. One-minute write
Students write the most important idea and one uncertainty. Exit ticket
A short final response that shapes the next lesson.

3. Build the exit ticket

Option A · Understand + Question“One thing I understand well is…” and “One thing I still need help with is…”

Option B · Explain“Explain today’s main idea to someone who was absent.”

Option C · ApplyGive one short problem or example that requires students to apply the learning independently.

Option D · Misconception checkPresent a common incorrect statement and ask students to correct and explain it.

Option E · Confidence + Evidence“How confident are you, 1–4?” followed by “Show one piece of evidence for your rating.”

Your final exit-ticket prompt

4. Decide what you will do with the evidence

If many students struggleIf a small group strugglesIf most students are secureStudents ready for extension

A formative assessment is useful only when the evidence changes what happens next. Keep the task short enough that you can review it quickly.

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