Hi Salina, Thanks for your post to the forum. being able to "teach back" is an excellent demonstration of understanding what one has learned. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Formative evaluations strategies that can be utilize to assess students could be: give the students a topic and have them teach that subject to the class this will assess how they are understanding the material and it will show their ability to apply what they have learned. I like to give pop quizzes to challenge students in the hope to encourage them to study and do their reading.
Active individual or group presentations and problem solving in front of the class on at least a weekly basis
Presentations can help assess students. These presentations should be taking the material and applying it to real life situations.
Hi Gregrey, Thanks for your post to the forum. Yes, assessments can also help us gauge our own performance.
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career,
Susan Polick
I like to use the labs and tests to keep the students informed on the progress they are making. It also allows me as an instructor to know where I need to focus my questioning at in the classroom. Which students need to be more involved.
Process writing at the begininng of new lecture about previous one
We also have weekly labs along with weekly classroom accessment.
Hi Lydia, Thanks for your post to the forum. That frequent assessment and the feedback you receive is so valuable! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Susan Polick
Some of the formative evaluation methods I can use are pop quizzes/testing. I like to use frequent testing to help our nursing students with their 'boards'. Testing will show the students and myself what they have learned. Did I teach them what I wanted to teach so they can be successful in their career path.
We also have labs and tests that help bring all the learning together.
I totally agree with this. When introducing a program that students have to learn and apply to a job, in 11 months, the formulative method of learning and appling works well.
I use quizzes and projects as a part of the evaluation of my student's progress. Student feedback during my lectures is also important to me as it gives me an indication of whether the material is 'soaking in' or is going over the student's heads. If they are not 'getting it', I may continue by not going ahead but to review what I just covered, just to make sure that they do understand what has just been covered. I think that if they don't understand the material covered, and you go forward without regard to that, you are laying a really faulty foundation on the next materials that you cover.
Formative evaluation can be didactic activities to show competency. If a student isn't proficient in an area, we work with them one on one and partner them up with a senior student. This helps them feel less threatened.
I like to use weekly quizzes or "application" quizzes. Depending on the class, students will receive an assignment to demonstrate new skills.
Hi James, Thanks for your post to the forum. Your frequent assessments are very valuable in giving feedback to your students as well as to yourself. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I use weekly written exams to cover the learned material in the lecture session. I also use weekly hands-on exam covering the skills learned for that week. I believe this shows the student where he or she needs more work. At the end of every 10 week section I also have a written and a hands-on final.
Hi Katie, Thanks for your post to the forum. That "up-front" information is so useful to tailor our instruction!
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I ask leading questions to see what background knowledge my students have prior to and during the lecture. Asking questions helps me to guide my lecture at an appropriate level for all students in my class, it also opens up doors for great group discussions.
Hi Jan, Thanks for your post to the forum. You are definitely running an "active learning" classroom! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
