Comment on Forms in Schools from Graham's Book

Forms is such an amazingly helpful Google App that can deliver data for decision making. It not only allows teachers to deliver online assessments to student, to self grade easily and clearly, but also it also enables teachers, principals, deans, counselors or anyone to gather date and create a survey.

Uses in creating quiz and self-grading:
Quizzes and grading are big deals to teachers. Traditionally, teachers create quizzes by writing questions and answers on the paper or creating them on Microsoft Office or Excel. There is not only heavy work to create them but also taking forever to grade them, especially in a large class. With Forms, teachers are able to make quizzes and grade them effectively and at an ease.The "Question Type" allows teachers to include different types of questions for assessment, without worrying about how to create a certain question format. Questions can be easily added and edited. Checking "Required Question" box helps students to complete the whole quiz before submitting. Everything about creating quiz on Forms seems so neat,effective and professional. After creating the quiz, teachers can either include the form in email or just email the link to students.The "Responses" menu helps teachers to collect information or answers effectively. "Accepting responses" needs to be checked to allow respondents to submit data. "Summary of responses" is checked to automatically create simple charts and graphs that analyze the data in the spreadsheet.I wish I knew it before when I was teaching. It took me so much time to create and grade the quizzes.

The answers or data collected from Google Forms goes directly in Google Spreadsheet, where it can be analyzed, organized and displayed in charts.Creating formulas, dragging down the column and sorting the grades will be done in a short while, which  enables teacher's grading effectively and accurately.

Uses in collecting data and creating survey:

Collecting data and creating survey can be done the same as creating quizzes. You just need to type in different types of questions and choose the certain question type that fit the survey.  When schools send home a parent survey to gather information about parents' certain aspects and suggestions of school life and study,a Google Form can be created and posted on the school's public media, allowing for easy data gathering.Sharing easily enables collaborative work.Teachers can create forms that will track specific students' grades, behavior and assignments.

Forms meet Common Core State Standards:

According to the CCSS, students need to "present information, findings and supporting evidance." With Google Forms, students are able to meet this standard outstanding by authentically gather real information, viewing directly and analyzing it from Spreadsheet. Therefore, students provide evidence to support their findings and decisions about a given topic. CCSS's High School Writing Standard requires students to focus on research projects and demonstrate understanding of the subject under investigation.  Google Forms is meant for research and investigation. Data gathered with Google Forms and analysis made with Spreadsheet aid in making assertion in writing, as well as other subjects. According to previous standard, it requires students to use appropriate tools wisely and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats. Google Forms is another great tool to help students succeed.

Summary:
Google Forms has great impact in schools in many aspects: for students to gather and organize data into spreadsheet, for teachers to create self-grading quizzes and tests, for teachers and school board to create survey and gather information from students, parents and teachers.