Doll_Assessment+2

For an assessment in Social Studies, my cooperating teacher gave the class an oral quiz. The quiz consisted of 14 questions that were recall questions. The students were asked questions that were very specific and could not be made up. Most of the questions had either a right or a wrong answer with no room for error. The quiz given was looking at a specific region of the country, asking what type of climate it was, what crops were grown there, etc. The students were given five minutes before the quiz to look over the charts they had made in previous classes, comparing parts of the country. I feel that giving students this time to look over their notes before the quiz may increase the scores they receive because they just looked it over, but it also sets students up to memorize the information for the quiz and forget it once they are done.

The teacher asked the questions out loud and gave the students a few minutes to answer each question. At the end, she went through the questions again if a student missed one. The class overall did decent on these quizzes, but I wonder how much they actually know if I were to ask them the same questions now. If students had known the information and knew how it applies, they would not have needed to look at their study guides/charts before taking the quiz.

Personally, I feel that this type of assessment needs to be done along the way, like my teacher was doing, to see where they are at in terms of what they comprehend. Using this, though, as an assessment to see if they can take this information and apply it to other things, would not be a good idea in my eyes. The reason I believe this is because it asks students to memorize information just to pass a quiz or test and then they can forget the information once the quiz/test has been taken.

Kaitlyn