Shusterman_journal+1

 At the beginning of the mathematics lesson, the students took a quiz on division by the number four. This quiz is one of many, since the students get quizzed on the same subject a couple of times before moving onto the next subject. The quiz consisted of twenty questions that all were some number divided by four. Each student is handed a blank sheet a paper and a pencil. Then, the teacher reads the problems aloud, one at a time. The students can either write out the problem and the answer, or they can just write the answer. After all of the problem are read, the students can ask questions about any problems they might have missed. Once there are no more questions, the students take out a red marker to correct their work. A few of the students had a quiz that already had the problems written on it, so that they were able to work at their own pace to finish it. I feel like a pencil-paper quiz is one of the best ways to test math drills. It allows the students to write out and practice a skill like division or multiplication. I also think that it is really effective that they take the quiz more then once. This allows the students to practice the skill more then once. Also, the fact that the students get more then one shot takes some of the pressure off. In addition, the fact that the some of the students had the problems written out in front of them was a very good idea. In addition, I liked that there was an option to have a quiz with the problems written out. This way if a student is struggling with the concept, they can have the problems right in front of them. That all being said I do not think that this type of quiz should be the only way that the students are assessed on this skill. I feel like the quiz does not asses whether these students actually understand the division they are doing, or if they would be able to apply the skill to a complex problem. 

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