Till now when I'm talking about assessment, I panic. As long as I like to represent my effort, but i like if the assessment time pass without noticing. As a teacher I like to give different assessment types to evaluate the students and to work with weakest area in understanding the idea. Each time i,m trying ti tell my student you have a quiz they show me different faces. So I decided not to mention the name quiz and make as discussing session, to eliminate any fear feelings. I added to the quiz a one-to-one discussion about the mistakes they did in the exam. I found when they solve the quiz only with me they answef right but just when I leave them sometimes they are not concentrating. What do you think should I do to increasecthe solving ability in the quiz.
I think that you have the right idea to vary types of assessment. For example, you can ask the students to draw the answer. They will be so taken up drawing, that they forget it is a test. Discussions and group work also help. I have included a long list of options that I encouraged my student teachers to use. A well designed rubric can help you to mark more creative ventures. Hope this helps!
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• Oral questions
• Objective type questions
• Completion exercises
• Short answer questions
• True/False questions
• Text-based questions
• Short essays
• Quizzes
• Observation
• Diagrams/drawings/cartoons/graphic organizers
• Stories/poems/songs/jingles/music/comedy
• Critique of articles/art/music
• Rating scales
• Checklists
• Discussion
• Summary Games
• Crossword/wordsearch
• Portfolio and journal entries
• Dramatization
• Demonstration
• Documentation
• Use of reference materials
• Graphs and tables
• Video presentations
• Displays
• Lab/experimental reports
Assessment is abig issue Bassant.Assessing students is one of the good teachers skills (which not all have it).I agree with the list of Joyanne i have to say i learnt from it too.I would suggest a game we use with kids named (throughing the ball)teachers stand in the centre of a circle of students and she would as a question and the one who catchs it should answer and so on we assess but still we can make it fun
ReplyDeleteI envy you because you have small children to teach so you can play and sing but with me I have to choose some of these options that are suitable for teenagers.
ReplyDeleteI can't add to what Dr Joyanne suggested but what I noticed that you look for a way of assessment that not frighten your little kids and this is so sensitive to think in that way. Don't panic Bassant Despite our age we still feel frightened when we know that we have an exam. It is normal but you can make this assessment in the form of a game or a kind of drawing and your students will answer freely without any fear.
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