Abstract
The study aims at investigating students’ perspectives towards the effectiveness of using Socrative in their learning experience pre and during COVID-19 pandemic. This tool provides immediate e-feedback for both students and teachers tracking students’ progress towards learning goals over time. The experiment was conducted on undergraduate students studying English Language Course of an intermediate-level at the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza, Palestine. The survey was implemented after Socrative was practiced two months before the pandemic and continued during it thorough the online learning. The findings showed that the majority of students have positive perceptions on using Socrative as it greatly promoted their effective learning experiences in both face to face classes and the online ones. Surprisingly, though the it was planned to implement this tool in the normal case of face to face classes, students expressed how they were lucky having been introduced and prepared using this technology before the COVID-19 lockdown, taking its advantage during it.
Keywords: Socrative, online quizzes, immediate feedback, formative assessment, COVID-19
