quizzes
quizzes can be helpful to you and your students if they are handled correctly. they should not be an exact copy of the test but should cover the immediate lesson information. this will indentify an area that may need additional instruction.
We have multipal choice quizes incororated into our course material covering the important information needed for the test and the course. The quizes range from 5 to 10 questions pertaining to each topic. I call on each student to read a question to the class as well as their answer. I then ask follow up questions to reinforce the correct answer and well as review additional material.
I give daily quizzes, which seems to keep them on track and helps with attendance as well.
Quizzes should focus on important concepts and questions worded such that the student can't just parrot back a statement but still have no real understanding of it or know how to apply it to a real life situation.
Quizzes that focus on minor points communicate to the student that he has to know everything, which he likely won't be able to do, and it will give him a failure.
It's important to evaluate the important from the medium important, etc. to ensure student success.
Hi Jack!
In my public speaking classes, I make the quizzes reviews of the lecture. That way if they do not absorb the material when I am speaking, they can review for the quiz and hopefully something sticks!
Hi Craig - Thanks for your post to the forum! You are utilizing the information that quizzes give you very well. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I also like the use of quizzes. It seems to me that they keep the student focused, but also allow me to guage if areas of struggle with material are wide spread, which would have me focus on my delivery of the material. If the areas are isolated I would then focus on the individual students.
Quizes that cover the material correctly work as a great way to see where the class is at. I use them as a way to help my class forward, by being able to retouch the ideas that students have missed.
Quizzes are usually handled as a pop practical to help students understand what they have learned and know if they have gained knowledge to master a technique
Daily quizzes help me identify what needs to be reinforced or explained differently.
Hi Lucille- Welcome to Ed 103! Having your students do internet searches makes them utlize active learning and is the reason why they retain that knowledge. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career! Susan
I think that a quiz is a great idea. We also like to give random questions that the students must research on the internet that will also be on the test. We thik this helps because the students tend to remember this information better.
For teacher quizzes are the best information you can get, you will learn how much students had learned and if you have to go back and teach again some subject may not all understood the first time.
Hi Estella- Welcome to ED 103! You are so correct - going over quizzes/tests ASAP is essential to giving your students feedback but also getting some feedback on your teaching. Thanks for your post and best wishes! Susan
It is also important to make quizes a learning tool by going over them after the fact, so that the student may see where they went wrong or right and ask relevant questions in reference to wrong answers
Quizzes should test small bits of information that collective would constitue a final exam.
The final exam would mirror the quizzes with variations in type and wording.
I use the quizes to show how to keep things in an exact order. So many of the techniques that are taught need to be kept in an exact order.
Hi Nathaniel- Welcome to ED 103! Quizzes, especially if given regularly, serve several purposes: they encourage attendance, they give you good feedback and they give your students good feedback. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career! Susan
qwizzes should not directly moch the test for evaluation but they are great for getting a grasp of how the student is doing with the information given them
I find that quizzes can also be used to cover material that will be demonstrated in a pratical portion of lab. Typically I will use them to gauge how my class is doing as far as retaining the information we may have covered the previous day. This usually helps with any questions or problems that will occur laer on in the course. If you can make sure they have a good foundation, the better off they are to build upon.
