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Nina Witel EDC 452: Dr. Pete Adamy Assessment Journal #3 03/09/09

This past week my cooperating teacher talked to me about how she uses multiple choice tests in her first grade classroom. Her students are given subject unit tests when the unit has been finished. The teacher gives them a booklet test that has questions on material they recently learned. The students have the option of picking one answer out of four choices. This teacher showed me the most recent test she gave to her students, and it was on a reading unit. The test booklet consisted of three short stories and after the stories they had six multiple choice questions that were based on that previous story. The teacher fully went over the directions with the entire class, and as preparation they read each of the six questions out loud so they had an idea of what to look for while reading. Some of the questions asked students who the main character was, what a certain vocabulary term meant and also a question about sequencing, what happened first, second and third in the story. The teacher informed me that the students have improved greatly as the year went on because they are learning how to comprehend and understand what they are reading. While reading the story, students are assessing themselves when thinking about what exactly is happening in the story. Multiple choice tests are given to students so they can be able to choose the correct answer from multiple choices. While looking through the students’ tests, I noticed that many of them answered all of the questions correctly; this could possibly be from reading them before the story and going over them so they had a clear understanding of what the questions were asking.

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