Laing+08+Affective+Assessment



1. Grade Level: 3rd. Content: Attitudes toward math service learning project 2. The objective of this affective assessment was to gather information regarding the students attitudes toward my math activity bag they had to take home for one night. From gathering students attitudes towards one of my assignments, I will be able to gain knowledge of how students learn and how to improve as a beginning teacher. 3. See attached for actual affective assessment. I had the some students complete this one page, ten question survey regarding their attitudes on how they felt about the math activity bag. 4. From looking at the affective assessments, I can see that the overall feelings toward my service learning project were positive. From the five students I surveyed, they all had positive feelings toward the math acitivity bag, doing the math activity bag with a family member, having the choice of picking what activities to do and taking the math activity bag home again. The students seemed to have neutral or negative feelings toward the materials in the bag and the difficulty, which is understandable. The most disagreement came from the difficulty level of the bag, perhaps being too easy for some, or too hard for some. Only one student felt they did not have time to complete the math acitivity bag, which I feel is a good thing, because majority of the students did have time. I took into account outside factors that could have influenced this particular studnts attiudes towards having time that day. Also, there were no negative attitudes towards the materials in the bag, which is a good thing because that means majority of the students enjoyed them. The rest of the attitudes were either neutral or unhappy feelings toward one particular acitivty, not one student did not like more than one acitivity included (book, workbook, game) 5. I will drop off students affective assessments in your mailbox. 6. One recommendation of future instruction for the entire class would be to give the survey to the whole class to take. This way I would be able to gather everyones attitudes towards the activity bag in order to improve it and learn for the future. 7. One recommendation for future instruction for the students I sampled would be to include more variety in the bag, ranging in difficulty to satisfy all of the learners. I will include more books, workbooks, and games since the students like the opportunity to chose from a varity for each task.