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 * Assessment Journal 3**


 * Context and Structure:** In math class students were to complete a mid-chapter review.  This review was to be counted as a test grade.  This mid-chapter review covered the concept of dividing decimals.  The review which was provided in the textbook used a multiple choice format.  Each question gave the problem and underneath supplied four answers students could choose from.  The answers were similar except for the placement of the decimal.


 * Implementation and Results:** At the beginning of class students were told that they could use their textbooks to complete their mid-chapter review, but they were to work independently.  Students remained at their desks and were given the page number on which the review could be found.  Scrap paper was handed out and it was expected that students would do their work out on it and hand it in with their test at the end of class.  Half of the class did very well on this test, but the other half performed poorly.


 * Reflection:** I believe so much of the class performed poorly on this assessment because possible answers were provided.  Based on the work on the scrap paper students did not do out the problems completely to find their answers.  If this assessment was not in a multiple choice format and structured differently students would have to do out the problem in order to come up with some sort of solution.  This would also prevent students from choosing an answer with the decimal in the wrong place.  Looking back, students would also be able to see where in their work they made the mistake if this assessment was structured differently.

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