K.Gregory_Affective_Assess

Attached is my Affective Assessment. [|Gregory_affective_assess.doc]

2 students' math inventories are attached: [|Gregory_affect1.doc], [|Gregory_affect2.doc]

The first person's affective assessment I chose to evaluate does not enjoy doing math, yet he/ she likes helping friends with math. I thought this was an interesting combination, because it shows that whomever it is will lend his/ her support to a friend despite his/ her feelings about math. I found the answers to the questions I posed were most interesting. This student has bad memories of the N.E.C.A.P testing and is only in fourth grade. This experience is negatively affecting his judgments and feelings toward math, and yet he/ she has to take the test numerous times after this year. The second person's assessment is discouraging, because this person has a very negative opinion of math. He/ she states that almost everything is his/ her least favorite thing to do. The only thing he/ she states that he/ she enjoyed was pulling cubes out of a bag. This was my math lesson on probability, and the students seemed to enjoy the hands-on activity a lot while doing it. Seeing this response made me feel good that he/ she has had at least one experience doing something that was enjoyable.
 * Grade Level:** 4
 * Content of Lesson:** Assessment of the students' affect of math
 * Assessment Criteria and instrument:** Please see the link above.
 * An analysis of the data:** My cooperating teacher is piloting a new math program which is paper-and-pencil based, as opposed to the problem solving model of teaching math we have learned about in Math Methods. I was interested to see the students' attitudes towards their math experiences thus far. On a number of papers, the students' favorite thing they'd done in math was making 3-D geometric shapes out of clay and toothpicks. I led this lesson that was developed by Mrs. Ricci, and the students thoroughly enjoyed making the shapes and were all actively engaged. Even though the students were frustrated at times due to their clay and toothpicks not staying together which caused their models to fall over. Seeing so many students choose this as their favorite activity shows that they would like more hands-on activities in math class.
 * A sample of student work:** There are two samples of students' inventories attached above.
 * Recommendations for future instruction for the entire class:** All students need to have more opportunities doing hands-on math. They also need to have successes which will allow them to feel more confident in their mathematical abilities.
 * Recommendations for future instruction for the students you sampled:** For both students, I would encourage them to have more positive experiences with math to increase their positive feelings about math. The first student should have more opportunities helping friends with math, because knowing that he/ she is helping someone understand something that he/ she knows would allow him/ her to feel more confident doing math. The second student should definitely have more hands-on experiences with math, because this was the activity that he said he enjoyed most where as he didn't like most everything else. Providing him/ her with more opportunities to engage in activities that will be enjoyable to him/ her will increase his positive affect of math.