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Assessment Journal #6 Today the students were given a multiple-choice math assessment. My cooperating teacher needed to see if her students were at the level they should be at, in their current math unit. This assessment was a formative assessment and was not graded, only kept for my teacher’s own student records to see her students’ current knowledge of the material. The students were being assessed on number sense, and if they could understand and use numbers up to 100. The students were given a math packet of twelve questions, involving counting and grouping. My teacher set up their math "privacy walls" that the students normally use when they are taking math tests, so they are not tempted to look at another student’s paper. My cooperating teacher read each question aloud to her students, and they had to circle their answer among four multiple choice options. If the students were confused or had a question we were able to read aloud the question in another way, but they were on their own in figuring out the best answer, because this assessment was to judge how well they understand the unit.

Having formative assessments throughout a unit is a great way to see how well the students’ are doing with the content. This was a fairly short assessment, and the students were also given choices, so were able to eliminate some of the options. Although, I realized that this assessment was tiring for some of the students, and therefore frustrating, so this assessment will probably be a good judgement and show what they need to work on, for my cooperating teacher. If I were to change this assessment, I would probably make it shorter for the students, because many of them felt overwhelmed by the formative assessment test.

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