Thoughts on Assessments

Here are some interesting formative assessment ideas for quizzes from this blog posting.

• Quizzes should let the students know what they need to work on.
• Quiz marks given half way through a unit should not count in the grade book. I primarily use test and retest results as the indicator of student understanding.
  
• Many students do not do their corrections.
• Give students a quiz. Let them write it in isolation.
• Put up the answers. Students mark their own paper and also give themselves feedback as to whether they made silly or real mistakes.
  
• Student puts mark at the top of their page.

What do you think?