To begin, the group that I used was high school student’s
grades 9-12 that I was able to gather during a class that I was subbing. The
students were more than willing to help (probably because they thought they were
going to get extra credit or something). The group consisted of eight students
(5 boys, 3 girls).
The pre-assessment that I chose to give was a short
10 question quiz about the game of volleyball followed by a short discussion;
this quiz would be one that was given on the first day of a new unit. I started
by explaining to the students what they would be doing and why they were taking
the quiz. They all listened and none of them had any questions. I passed out
the quiz to the student and told them that they were to work individually on it
because it was to gauge where the knowledge of volleyball was among them. The
quiz consisted of questions like "what is a bump?" and "how many
times can the volleyball be hit on each side?" etc., nothing too
difficult. Once the students were done with the quiz we talked about if any of
them had played volleyball before and I asked them questions similar to the
quiz. I did this so that I could get a feel for where the student understood the
game of volleyball, because sometimes a written test doesn't always show
everything. Once we were done with the discussion I dismissed the students and
thanked them for their participation.
What I found was that the students understood more than
what the written quiz showed. During the discussion portion of the
pre-assessment I got a better grasp on what the students understood because
they explained more into detail. On the written test students where very short
with their answers and some didn't know certain volleyball terminology, where
during the discussion they did based on what other students said or
demonstrated.
What I concluded from this is that some students do
not always do well on written tests but might still know the information. When
looking at what I could change I actually wouldn't change anything because the
two ways I gave the test should be able to cover almost all the students and
their different learning techniques. One thing that I would do in a class of 40
students though would be to give the written quiz and then instead of talking
to the whole class during the discussion, I would pull aside smaller groups of
students to have a discussion about volleyball and see what they know.
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