baggesen_journal1

__Type of Assessment__: This is a pre assessment that happens weekly on Mondays. __Context__: This pre-assessment is the same spelling test that the students will have on the following Friday. Students have never seen or heard this list of words before today. __Structure:__ The test is administered in the same manner that the test on Friday will be. The teacher says the word, provides a sentence containing the word, then repeats the word a final time. This is done for all twenty spelling words. __Results__: When the test is finished, students are given a copy of the spelling words and asked to correct their test. They are then to record the words they got wrong in their blue book for spelling. If student got all words correct or less than five correct then they are given ‘enrichment’ words that are more difficult. __Implementation:__ Throughout the week students are given homework to focus on the words they got wrong. They are also given practice with all the words just to increase memorization of the spelling of the words or strengthen the definition of the words to the students. By the end of the week students should have had enough practice with the words to be able to receive a 100 on Friday’s spelling test. __Reflection__: I believe this is a very effective method. Students are able to see what words they need practice with and are provided practice with these words. Knowing the words that they got wrong the first time allows them to focus and make sure that they know how to spell them for Friday’s test. Students may believe that they know how to spell a word on Monday and come to find out when they correct their test they have spelled it wrong is a huge eye-opener for the student. If they were just given a list on Monday and told that they need to know them by Friday I feel there still would be a lot of mistakes on the students’ tests. They might falsely believe they know how to spell a word and therefore not practice it and find out Friday that in reality they did not know how to spell that word and do poorly on the test. If they were just given the test on Friday without knowing the words before the fail percent would be high for most of the students. I will most likely use this form of assessment for spelling when I become a teacher.

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