simon renshaw - hinge questions and quick key

Using Hinge Questions and the Quick Key app to improve student learning

Simon Renshaw Soar Valley College

@simonrenshawrenshawgeography@gmail.com

Picture of a pile of my marking!

Marking... Nobody ever develops an app for that!

Quick Key

Geographical Understanding

Formative assessment

Student Learning

Technology

It is the moment where you move from one key idea/ activity/ point on to another.

Understanding the content before the hinge is a prerequisite for the next phase of learning.

The main reason air temperature varies across the globe is because...

A - The Earth orbits the sun B - The Earth orbits the sun at an angleC - The Earth is a sphereD - The Earth has a hot core

You are most likely to find scree slopes forming in mountain environments where...

A - The altitude is highB - The gradient is steepC - The temperature is very cold D - The temperature fluctuates around 0⁰CE - The rainfall is low

Quick Key

Quick Key

Design high quality

assessment questions

Deploy range of hinge questions

to assess student understanding

Use technology to

analyse results

More immediate

adjustment to instruction

Improvement to student

understanding

“If we spend time generating high quality questions we can potentially administer, assess

and take remedial action regarding a whole class in a matter of minutes, without

generating a pile of marking.”

Using Hinge Questions and the Quick Key app to improve student learning

Simon Renshaw Soar Valley College

@simonrenshawrenshawgeography@gmail.com