General Ed · Formative Assessment
Exit Ticket
Three questions at three cognitive levels — recall, apply, transfer. Built on Marzano, Wiliam, and Black-Wiliam’s research on hinge-point formative assessment.
Build your three questions
One per cognitive level. Saves to this device.
Did they hold onto a key fact?
A single term, definition, or fact from today.
Can they use it in a new situation?
A problem where they use the concept in a new context.
Can they connect it to something else?
Stretch — connect today's idea to another topic, real life, or a bigger question.
Each question needs a prompt, a correct answer, and 3 unique distractors.
How this helps (research)
Exit ticketsare one of the most evidence-backed formative assessment practices. Black & Wiliam’s landmark Inside the Black Box(1998) found that effective formative assessment produces effect sizes of 0.4 to 0.7 — among the largest in education research. Wiliam’s Embedded Formative Assessment (2011) formalized the idea of hinge-point questions — quick checks that tell a teacher whether to move on or reteach.
This exit ticket structures the three questions by cognitive level: recall (did they hold onto a fact), apply (can they use it somewhere new), and transfer(can they connect it to a bigger idea). That structure borrows from Bloom’s taxonomy and Marzano’s Art and Science of Teaching (2012). Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion 3.0 (2021) lists Exit Ticket as Technique #26 — a cornerstone of a well-run classroom.
The mastery rubric (Mastered / Close / Emerging / Reteach) is designed to make the next-day decision concrete instead of vague. In a future version, this game will let whole classes take the same exit ticket and auto-group students by misconception for tomorrow’s small-group instruction — the “auto-grouping” in the title.