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Exit Ticket Question Wheel – End-of-Class Formative Assessment

About this exit ticket question wheel

Formative assessment provides critical feedback for planning tomorrow’s lesson. The Exit Ticket Question Wheel turns the final 5 minutes of class into a thoughtful reflection routine, ensuring every student processes core concepts before leaving.

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How to use the exit ticket question wheel

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    Spin the wheel with 5 minutes remaining in the class period.

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    Students write their response on an index card or digital form as their ticket out the door.

Ways to use this wheel

  • Sticky Note Wall: Students write their answers on sticky notes and post them on the door as they exit.
  • Think-Pair-Share Closure: Discuss the spun question with an elbow partner before dismissal.

Checking understanding before students leave

An exit ticket is a quick question at the end of class that shows what students understood. The wheel picks the question, so students cannot prepare a stock answer, and you can see where to start tomorrow.

Ask students to answer in a sentence on a slip of paper or a digital form. Read a few before the next lesson, and sort them into got it, almost and not yet.

Questions that work

Good prompts ask for the most important idea, a remaining question or a connection to something already learned. Replace the defaults with questions that suit your subject, and vary them across the week so the answers stay honest.

All 8 entries on this wheel

  • What was the single most important concept you learned today?
  • What is one question you still have about today’s lesson?
  • Explain today’s key idea in one sentence to a 4th grader.
  • How does today’s topic connect to something in the real world?
  • Give one concrete example of how to apply what we practiced.
  • Rate your confidence (1 to 5) on today’s skill and explain why.
  • What was the trickiest mistake someone could make on this topic?
  • Summarize today’s lesson using exactly 3 bullet points.

Frequently asked questions

Does this help with lesson pacing?

Yes, setting a designated Exit Ticket routine helps teachers wrap up instructional time predictably.

What is on the Exit Ticket Question Wheel?

It opens with 8 entries: What was the single most important concept you learned today?, What is one question you still have about today’s lesson?, Explain today’s key idea in one sentence to a 4th grader. and 5 more. You can keep the list as it is or replace it with your own entries.

What can I use this wheel for?

People use it in a classroom, a tutoring session or a homework routine. Popular ideas include Sticky Note Wall and Think-Pair-Share Closure. For example, Sticky Note Wall: students write their answers on sticky notes and post them on the door as they exit.

Is this wheel really random?

Yes. Nothing about it is rigged: the winner is chosen by your browser's secure random number generator, so a list of 8 gives each entry a 12.5% chance until you change the weights. How our randomness works has the full explanation.

Can I stop the same result coming up twice?

Yes. Press Remove winner in the result window, or tick the option under the entries, and that result is taken off the wheel. It is the easiest way to give out several different results from this list of 8.

Can I share or embed this wheel?

Yes. Press Share to copy a link that opens this wheel with your current list, or Embed to get a snippet for a web page or class site. Both are free and need no account.

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