Journal-Patrick3

Journal Entry 3 After the daily morning announcements the students were given a math worksheet that the teacher was using as a form of assessment. The class had been working on simple addition and subtraction over the past week and the teacher wanted to determine where students stood with the concepts. This assessment was in the form of a fill-in-the-blank test.
 * Context:**

There were two sides to the assessment worksheet. On the first side there were twelve addition and subtraction problems. The problems were written in this form, 4+3=. On the back of the sheet there was a large picture of the sky with stars and the moon in it. The sky was split up into different parts and so were the stars and moons. In every part on the page there was a subtraction problem. Once the student finished the subtraction problems they would go to color code grid (4=brown, 5=orange, 6=yellow, all other answers=blue) and would match their answer to the assigned color. They would use the grid to color in each section. Once the students were finished with all correct answers there would be a colored sky with a moon and stars. The results from this assessment were that most students got all the questions correct and only a few had some trouble with subtracting. This allowed the teacher to know that she could move on once she did a little work with the few students that struggled.
 * Details:**

I do not believe that it was a fully effective assessment. It did show the teacher that the students grasped the concept but it was a very simple worksheet that did not challenge students. If I were to give this type of assessment I would have a few questions similar to the ones on this test but I would also push students to see how much they really did know. I also would have changed the picture on the back of the sheet. It was a very simple picture that many of the students just colored in before answering all the subtraction questions. All the students knew that the sky was blue and the stars were yellow so it was very easy for students to cheat and just find the answer by the colors. I would have either gotten rid of the picture itself or would have picked a more complex picture that made the students really work to fully color it in.
 * Reflection:**

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