Pretests
Prestests are incredibly valuable when it comes to evaluating the level of knowledge in your classroom. With pretests you are able to use compare and contrast to see which type of lecture would benefit them as a whole. This in itself creates a big difference in the students learning environment.
Hi Othello:
One of the benefits of using pretests is they may help reveal what kind of learning style your student uses. Knowing this may help you create more effective lesson plans.
Regards, Barry
Hi Mitchell:
One of the benefits of using pretests is they may help reveal what kind of learning style your student uses. Knowing this may help you create more effective lesson plans.
Regards, Barry
Hi Kerry:
One of the benefits of using pretests is they may help reveal what kind of learning style your student uses. Knowing this may help you create more effective lesson plans.
Regards, Barry
Hi Christopher:
One of the benefits of using pretests is they may help reveal what kind of learning style your student uses. Knowing this may help you create more effective lesson plans.
Regards, Barry
Hi Robyn:
One of the benefits of using pretests is they may help reveal what kind of learning style your student uses. Knowing this may help you create more effective lesson plans.
Regards, Barry
Yes, I agree pretest can be quite valuable, especially in the areas of what type learner the student is. By knowing how most of your students best can learned, you can accomodate your class intruction accordingly, so that everybody will benefit.
I have found that by pretesting my students it allows me to begin at a starting point where they feel comfortable. Before pretesting I would begin at a point where I felt most if not all of the students should have been when entering the course but that is a misconception. Although my course requires a prerequiste sometimes students have taken the prerequiste sometime early and may need a "refresher or review" before beginning the new course and I think the pretest have helped in this process.
I agrre with that, It's also a good way to give them some take home quiz as a learning guide, to make them open their books at home...
I agree that the pretest is a great device to see where the student is and what type to students you will have in your new group. This can be so valuable when yo start to give out assignments etc. and I also feel the students will get some feedback also
It's also a good practice to be 'in-tuned' to the class as a whole and be attentive to individual differences. This will guide in the pre-testing.
I have taught a course that was directly related to the course that the students had just completed. I pretested and had a 84% fail rate on material already covered. The “pretest†helps me to realize I was having to teach my course and the same course they just completed, all at the same time. I maybe not be the only one that has had to deal with extreme lack of retainmennt from students, but feel it's happening much too often. The pretests issues I see are in preadmission testing.
I agree that prestests are valuable, especially when you have a room full of students with different backgrounds. It is a great tool from which you can better anticipate the needs of your class.
I am a relatively new instructor. One of the courses that I teach is a review course. It is supposed to be the class that will prepare the students to sit for the certification exam they will take after graduation. The biggest problem I have with the course is that it is only a 6 week course. There is a very good book that is used for the class, but it is impossible to get through very much because of the time constraints.
My first time teaching the class I started at chapter one and did my best to push through as much as I could in the short amount of time I had. The problem is that for most students it had been more than a year since they had some of the classes we were reviewing. Not that they didn’t necessarily know the content, but they were rusty and needed extra time for some topics. So, I decided that I would give a pretest that had a little bit from every aspect of the program, then I could assess which specific areas were lacking for the majority of the class and I would know where to focus. It also gave me a chance to let the students know where they as individuals needed to focus before their certification exam.
So far it seems to be working very well.
I like to pretest. It certainly opens the eyes of the students, especially those that come in with an "I know it already" attitude.
Pretests are great for instructors to see what issues need to be covered by many ways to bring the class up to knowledge on the subject matter being taught.
Hi Dionne:
I don't pretest for every class. But where they are helpful is when I'm unfamiliar with their progress, they are new, or if the material is new. For me, it helps to know where the emphasis is most and least needed.
Regards, Barry
