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Pre-Assessment Strategies
Assessment While Learning Strategies
After Learning Informal Assessment Strategies
- Administer a pre-test or informally asses the students through dialogue or interest surveys.
- Determine if the students are at the beginning stage, approaching mastery, have mastered the subject, or exceeded expectations.
- Group students accordingly.
- Try out one of these pre-assessment activities: Corner of the Room, Boxing Facts-Card, or KWL
Assessment While Learning Strategies
After Learning Informal Assessment Strategies
- The Circle "Think" - Students form a circle and each student takes a turn saying something he/she will use from information learned.
- Give One, Get One - Students get partners. A tells a fact to B. B gives another fact back. Students keep swapping facts back and forth.
- We Know... - Charts with heading about the subject are posted around the room. Each chart has a different heading. Small groups move to each location and give views on the topic of the chart. A recorder fills in the chart with the information given. The groups continue to move to each chart until they have given information about each topic.
- Pass the Paper - A different subject heading is at the top of each large piece of chart paper. The groups each brainstorm and write down what they know about the topic. They pass the paper to another group. The next group reads all of the information that was written. They write down anything else they know about the topic and then pass the paper to the next group. This continues around the room.
- Theme Song - Each group chooses a theme song to describe what they have learned about the subject.
- The Happy Ending - Students write down the best thing that happened from studying the subject area. If a student feels that he/she does not understand the subject sufficiently, the student writes what it would take for him/her to have a happy ending.