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3.1.4 Tools for evaluation: Google Forms, Kahoot

Evaluation is an essential component of the mentoring process, as it allows you to monitor the progress of the path, verify the achievement of objectives and provide constructive feedback. The fourth module is dedicated to digital tools that can facilitate effective, interactive and participatory evaluation. In particular, we will explore the features of Google Forms and Kahoot!.

Google Forms is a free tool from Google that allows you to create surveys, tests, questionnaires and feedback forms. It is extremely useful for assessing prior knowledge, monitoring learning, collecting opinions and verifying student satisfaction. The forms can be customized with open-ended, closed-ended, multiple-choice or Likert scale questions.

The results are automatically collected in a spreadsheet, allowing for immediate and orderly analysis. In the context of mentorship, Google Forms can be used to carry out an initial, intermediate and final evaluation, thus structuring an evidence-based learning process.

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that allows you to create interactive, stimulating and fun quizzes.

Thanks to its playful format, Kahoot! can be used to actively involve students in reviewing content, verifying understanding of specific topics, or making group meetings more dynamic.

Quizzes can be taken live or asynchronously, and the results are available in real time, allowing the mentor to adapt the path to the students' training needs.

During the module, participants will learn to design assessment tools consistent with the objectives of their mentoring path, acquiring practical skills in creating and analyzing modules.

We will also reflect on the meaning of assessment as a moment of dialogue and growth, rather than judgment. Formative assessment, self-assessment, and mutual assessment approaches will be explored.

At the end, each mentor will be able to effectively integrate assessment tools into their mentorship process, adopting a conscious, transparent approach oriented towards the development of the student's potential.