JamisonA2

Assessment 4-1 After the class activity of flipping a penny and recording the data, I will have to class record the data with me and write a sentence about what it means. I will ask questions such as, 'based on our graph what is more likely to occur next, heads or tails? why do you think that?' 4.1 -4.3 After the unit, the students will have a test. 4-3 The students will display their findings in a graph of their choice, a bar graph (line chart), circle graph, table graph or pictograph. 4-3.2 Students will then guess what number is most likely and the number least likely to come up next, and explain why they thought that. To assess this, I will use anecdotal records. I will be sure to write down what the students predict and if they have vailid reasons for their thinking. I will use just a class list, and write what I find next to the students names.

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 * 4/22: Meg - This is a good lesson for probability, and the students clearly will get some supported practice. For Objective 4.1, there is little or no instruction to support this objective. The activities you have listed do not go directly towards meeting this goal, and your test assumes knowledge and understanding that were not in your lesson. You should either include more instructional activities to address this objective, or leave it out of this particular plan. Objective 4.3 appears to be addressed and assessed adequately in your plans. For objective 4.3.2, your assessment is appropriate, but it is not really in the spirit of anecdotal records. You can call it that (and I will count it for your course requirements), but anecdotal records are really for use when you don't have another means of collecting the data. It seems to me that in making predictions, it would be more useful to have students write down their individual responses, so that you can be sure you get full data from each student and don't have to rely on you getting everything they say written down. (Dr. Adamy)**