STUDENT ASSESSMENT
As teachers we are always assessing our students. I believe that there is not one class that goes by where teachers have not assessed their students learning. We are constantly doing some form of assessment wether that is through assessment for, as, or of learning. Student assessment is vital to their overall learning. It is also vital for us a teachers to be life-long learners. We take our assessments and use them to benefit the students long term, whether that me extra practice or even another class in which we need to go over a particular concept. Student assessment particularly 'as' learning, allows students to take responsibility in their own learning environment by needing to help each other, and discover their own mistakes, strengths and areas for improvement. The artifacts that I have posted below show come of the different forms of assessment that I did throughout my time in grade 7 math. Through both the units I utilized text assignments (completion), 5- minute quizzes, worksheets, and a unit test as forms of summative assessment. Another form of assessment that I utilized was the use of the students creating a poster in order to communicate concepts this task allowed be to see if the students actually understood how to communicate how to perform a particular task to someone who has never learnt about integers before. Other forms up assessment utilized was through observation, asking them thumbs up if you get it, side ways if you sort of get it, down if you do not understand, I also was able to assess by having them answer question on the smart board, smart camera, or verbally. With utilizing all these different forms I was able to adjust my next lessons and where the current lesson needed to go based on the data that I gathered through my assessment. I also achieved this KSA when I went through the student's quizzes, unit test, and worksheets and performed an analysis on these large scale assessment. When I was going through and marking this particular task I was able to distinguish particular areas for which the majority of the class struggled. Whether that be because the question was poorly written or possibly because I taught a concept to fast for the levels at which my students where at. Through this analysis, I was able to work in a starter and discussion for the next class that pertained around those particular problem areas, while also providing them some examples of questions that they really understood. I did this so we could take the opportunity to compare the problem questions and strength questions and looked at the difference to understand what went wrong.
KAS 11
KAS 11
This is one of the 5-Minute Quizzes that I used in my Patterns and Expressions Unit. I used this as both a formative and a summative assessment. I was able to utilize the data from the quiz for areas in which the students struggled more in so that we could cover that particular topic more. I also highlighted questions that were of strength so that they don't get down on themselves. Providing students with an area of strength and and area for improvement is important in creating a higher level of learning for them down the road.
This is part of an assignment that I had my student complete in the Integers Unit. The back side of this assignment was more mental commutation. I included this side of the assignment as it was utilized as an assessment form situated round assessment for and as learning. This side provide the student an opportunity to check for their own mistakes and they need to complete or solve the riddle at the bottom. I did then take this in to see if they were able to get the concepts on the back and even on the front. I feel for worksheets like this some students will be able to guess what goes in what spots, so I required that they needed to show their work, this way I am able to see if they understood or if they were guessing.