Wonderful approach!!!!! This also brings about peer support throughout the course and possibly into future meetings.
Excellent information, allows the student to be at ease, and gives them and idea of the type of questions to anticipate.
Excellent approach!!! This allows inclusion of the individual students as well as a sense of worth and knowing that the facilitator has read the comments.
Through the realization of the primary learning styles and knowledge base of the majority of the group and through assessment of the material at hand in order to evaluate inclusion of other media.
QUINTIN,
I guage my lessons around the strengths of the class. Where more emphasis is needed, I'll target that to be sure students are achieving successful outcomes. A pretest can help determine where that emphasis should be (or or not be).
Barry Westling
In our case, it helps to identify the students who my not have enought knowedge or are having a hard time in our particular subject. This is good, as we can then monitor their progress, and tutor them if necessary, so they can succeed with the subject matter.
Phuong,
Pretests are among the various ways to assess performance. Here, it's before instruction begins to determine where adjustments may be needed based on prior learning.
Barry Westling
My opinion: student has to know level of his/her knowlege. Graded quiz helps me ad him/her analize a level of preparation for test
it help is because it tells us how and were the students learning mind is at.
Sabina,
Great. A pretest can be graded or not graded. I find students will try harder if they know their performance is for information only, and won't count against them.
Barry Westling
Diane,
There are other ways to assess at what level students are performing. But a pretest can provide quite a bit of information for relatively little preparation by the teacher.
Barry Westling
Kenneth,
I alternate as to when I do pretesting. However when I do its to assist my planning, particularly when I am unsure at level of prior knowledge my students are performing.
Barry Westling
I also use pop-quizes and pretest as planning tools: I review them for for future lessons
good idea to knowing where your student is at learning wise
Pre tests are a good indicator of what your students already know starting off. Sometimes I have a group of students that have an extensive backgroud in science (College and or degrees) and sometimes I have students who barely finished high school. I gage what and how fast I teach based on this.
This is a great and useful tool to gage the knowledge level of the incoming students. This will allow you to skip material that they already know in order to get to the goal that you are reaching for.
Paul,
Cool! I to will sometimes show students their pretest at the end of of a course, especially when I feel they need an emotional "push" to reinforce their hard work has paid off.
Barry Westling
Anissa,
Knowing where students are beginning at helps determine our plan for getting where they need to be when the course is completed. For me, these arn't exhaustive or even comprehensive. Just sort of a toe in the water to assess whether basic essntials are there, and to what degree.
Barry Westling
I like the idea of a pretest. I give one to new students in the first week. I can get an idea of the students previous experience with the subject. At the end of the course I will return the pretest to them so they can see the learning they achieved.
A pretest is a must. It lets me know the area of weakness and strengths in the course content. I know whether I need to spend a little more time in area or if can go through a concept swiftly. at any rate, I get a snapshot of where my student is with the content.
