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Leah Yates Duke University Master of Arts in Teaching |
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One of my goals as a teacher is to try and give an end of class assessment every day. These assessments help me to gauge the amount of material that the students are actually learning and retaining. I taught a unit in Calculus where I gave an assessment every day and then scored each assessment on a 5-point weighted scale. Students were awarded a 1 for a 60% correct answer, a 2 for a 70% correct answer, 3 for an 80% correct answer, 4 for a 90% correct answer, and 5 for a 100% correct answer. I then averaged all these assessments and awarded each student a cumulative quiz grade at the end of the unit. I kept their assessment scores on a spreadsheet to help me view their daily growth. Then after I averaged their quiz scores, I compared it with their test scores and found that these daily assessments were a very good predictor of most students’ test scores. The links below will take you to each assessment that I gave and also one student example of that assessment. The last link will take you to the spreadsheet that I used to record the daily progress of the students.
Day 1 Assessment on Finding Extrema