lets you know where the students are at
Will give the instructor an idea of how well the students understand the material and areas to focus on.
Pretesting is a good tool to use to get an understanding of where the students knowledge is and if any student needs additional aid in the material.
Hi Shoaib:
I don't use pretesting all the time or for every class. In fact, I consider it only when I need to know the students level of performance coming into a class. As a student-centered focus, indivdualizing each students needs is helpful, and pretesting is a great way to achieve that knowledge.
Regards, Barry
Hi Jay:
Wow, I think pretesting should be a required part of the curriculum in courses like you describe! Pretesting can certainly help you adjust or modify what and where more emphasis is needed.
Regards, Barry
Hi Jose:
Great - that's one of the main reasons to pretest. Another related is reason is where to put additional emphasis, and learning at what level your students are at.
Regards, Barry
Hi Anna Marie:
I use pretesting when I'm unsure of the degree of knowledge or preparation my students are performing at. Like you, I can also make tweaks to my curriculum to put more emphasis where it will help the most.
Regards, Barry
Using pretests as planning tools can help you design your lesson plan delivery to best suit the needs of your students.
Knowing my lesson plans, I know key concepts that are required to succeed in my class. Giving pretests will help me identify extra help the students may need.
I agree with you Barry. Also I need to add that pretesting helps the instructor know how the students are performing and where they are at.
I teach court reporting and students need to have strong spelling, grammar, and punctuation skills. By giving a pretest I can focus on how many students need help with phonetics. The biggest problem I have encountered is students' inability to distinguish between long and short vowels. Example: hat in stenography is written HAT and hate in stenography is written HAEUT. By pretestinng them on long and short vowel sounds I then know how much time to spend on phonetics and it helps the students progress more quickly.
Hi Angelia:
Yes, we can learn where we may need to put more emphasis that originally planned. I use pretesting when I'm unsure at what level my students are operating at.
Regards, Barry
Pre-tests may be helpful to assists instructors in finding out their students knowledge base on specific subject matter.
I personally have not done this. I can see however, that it could be beneficial. Its just that our particular cirriculum is very well laid out for us and the time lines are so narrow, there is not a lot of time for instruction "away from the plan". For students struggling in particular aresa, I do offer tutoring hours both during the week as well as the program director holds every other Saturday sessions, which are open forum.
Pretests are a great way to guage the educational and experience background of your students. If a majority of the class has difficult with the pretest then you know that you need to revise your class presentations and incorporate more review into your lesson plans.
I believe pretesting would greatly benefit students and instructors alike. The course I teach is on motorcycle mechanics and we have no prerequisite for admistion into class. By issuing a baseline test in the first few days of class we could better assist the students that are below the class average and challange those who are above.
It can help identify areas that need to be focused on.
Isabel
Pretest can be very effective. Pretest allows students to focus more on the concepts within the materials that helps students gain additional knowledge on the subject.
Hi Karen:
Good use. I do that too. I also pretest whenever I am uunsure at what level my students are performing at. It does a great job of helping me put emphasis where needed.
Regards, Barry
Hi Tracy:
Good reasoning. For me, I pretest whenever I am unsure at what level my students are performing at.
Regards, Barry
