Socrative is an online application which allows teachers to set up quizzes and questionnaires for students to answer in order to test subject knowledge. Students are given details to log in, where there are questions or quizzes. The students log their answers and this is immediately shown on the teacher's computer device. Teachers can display the answers to multiple-choice, true/false or short answer questions. Also, the teacher is able to choose whether the student can see if the answer was correct, or provide an explanation to any wrong answers.
I feel this application is not beneficial as a teaching tool. Firstly, in order for this to work, every student needs to either have a laptop, tablet or a mobile phone. With a big student group this could be time consuming setting the process up for the teacher and also the student. Therefore, in my opinion the more traditional way of using paper copies of quizzes, or asking direct questions to the students is a more effective way of testing subject knowledge.
