Assessment Strategies

One assessment strategy I used this week was to developed a set of questions (work packet) that was made up of different questions from practice skills books. I picked the questions based on the learning targets students needed to know for their benchmark tests next week. I gave students the packets today, they worked on them and I corrected them. From the questions I was able to see what topics students still need to review. This way I did not have to waste time teaching concepts that students already knew. My cooperating teacher and I picked the questions students missed the most and are going to go over those questions together as a class tomorrow. Students are then going to do some practice work on two skills they still need help with. I have developed a few other tests or worksheets that I have also used in classes. I have also assessed students by observing them during work time and looking at their class work that I had them hand in. I recently used exit slips in middle school math as well which is a nice quick assessment to see if students learned important concepts during the lesson.