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Caitlin Catalano EDC 452 Assessment Journal February 9th 2009

__Journal Entry 1__

On Friday, February 6th 2009, I went into my placement in a 5th grade classroom at Edward S. Rhodes Elementary School in Cranston. Every Friday the students in the classroom that I am in take a Math test, the test is based on what ever has been taught and learned during the week. This weeks Math quiz happened to be Math Quiz number 14. There are fifteen questions on the quiz, the first fourteen of them were number problems and the last one was a word problem. The fourteen number problem consist of four-digit number addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the students were also given fractions that had to be converted into percentages, and they were asked to adding fractions together. The word problem asked the students to find out which boy in the problem had the higher percentage of hitting the baseball that was thrown at them.

The students had known, since Monday that they would be having a Math quiz on the Friday. During the week the teacher reviewed what was going to be on the quiz and gave the students sample question to practice with. The students also had questions in their Math books that they could use to practice with. Students were also given the option of coming into school early, staying in during lunch or staying after school to ask questions. By doing this, the students were able to work one on one with the teacher to better understand the information that was being learned. When I arrived at the school, I was able to work with my teacher to help a small group of student to better understand long division.

In my opinion, this form of assessment was a great way of discovering whether the students are able to do these kinds of math problems. I think the only thing that I would have done differently, would have been to give the students more room of the quiz paper to do their work. So instead of having all the questions on one side of the paper, I would have them evenly distributed on both sides of the paper. I feel like at times working without a piece of scrap paper can be difficult, but over all I think that the assessment was well planed and did its job very well.

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