The competent teacher understands and uses appropriate formative and summative assessments for determining student needs, monitoring student progress, measuring student growth, and evaluating student outcomes. The teacher makes decisions driven by data about curricular and instructional effectiveness and adjusts practices to meet the needs of each student.
I created this quiz in my Educational Psychology course. It is based on Chapter 2 of Educational Psychology by Woolfolk. I used 8 multiple choice questions and two essay questions that are all at or above Bloom's application level. By creating the questions in this way, students are required to not only remember the information, but critically think about how it can be applied, manipulated, and critiqued. This approach ensures "instructional effectiveness" (Standard 7) for the students in my class.
Google forms is a wonderful platform to use for quizzes and tests. I can "understand that assessment is a means of evaluating how students learn and what they know and are able to do" (Knowledge Indicators 7B). I can learn about this through the data I receive on the site. If I see that many student are struggling with the same problem, I can use this information to instruct my future teaching "adjust practices to meet the needs of each student" (Standard 7). The quiz also allows me to see if a student really did not comprehend the unit. I can then "determine student needs" (Standard 7) and come up with an effective intervention.
Overall, making this quiz helped me build my understand of creating effective assessments that aid my students' learning and help me provide helpful and meaningful instruction. I feel more prepared to use appropriate instruction in my teaching.
I created this quiz for my freshman English course. I needed to assess whether the students had read the information for the lesson I was about to teach. If the quiz showed that the students had not finished the reading, I was going to change my plan for the class.
It is important that "The teacher makes decisions driven by data" (Knowledge Indicators 7G). I was administering this quiz as a formative assessment, checking for the homework completion of my students. The lesson for that day relied heavily on the reading from the previous night. This was the first time I gave the freshman a reading for the night, so checking their success level was very important.
By creating this assessment, I learned a new way to check for reading comprehension. Sometimes, I create a handout or ask a comprehension question. However, reading quizzes are something these students will encounter later in their education, so they need to be prepared.