formative assemesment narrative

I had students take a practice Standardized test. We have been working on test taking strategies. The goal was to transfer those strategies to the actual test. The assessment was 12 questions.  1 out of 8 got 0 wrong the rest got two wrong. I had those that missed questions write a brief explanation in why they missed the question and had them correct it. I had each student come up and explain to me what they should to next time and what strategy we should use.

Take away

The biggest take away from this book

This book can go to the extremes.  Some of the fixes would be so hard to implement at present.  It did make me at least think about how I do things in my classes, right or wrong. It does have good ideas that we can use as long as we make them our own.

Reflection

The way I'm going to go about this is to reflect on one fix I agree with and one that I do agree with. I will start with the one I do agree with and that fix would be” Don’t give points for extra credit”.  You shouldn’t get credit for something that doesn’t really count.

The one I disagree the most is “Don’t include student behaviors in grades; include only achievement” The first thing physical education state standard states “Students participate in regular physical activity” and standard “Students exhibit responsible personal and social behavior in physical activity settings”.  This book is geared for the common core.

I do believe that the behavior is as important as achievement.  The question is how to we successfully split them when they are so much tied to one another?