Pre-Assessment

Teach-Now

Module 6 Unit 2

Pre-Assessment

Pre-assessment test/quizzes allow teachers to identify what their students understand and how to properly instruct them before they start a lesson/unit. With this knowledge, the teacher will be able to group the students into sections to properly differentiate their lessons. They’ll also be able to address the proper students with methods to help them understand the concept more effectively.

Some examples of pre-assessment can be:

• Journaling
• Games / Game Activities
• Self-Assessment
• Table top discussion
• Quizzes/Tests

For this activity, I put together a pre-test/pre-quiz. The subject matter was for my Module 5 project that I put together. That project was based on a 5th-grade common core writing standard. The students had to put together an opinion piece and then support their opinions with information. So this pre-quiz is structured to find out if the students know the difference between a fact and an opinion.

Here are my pre-quiz questions.

Click here to check out my quiz! I used the online app Kahoot to make it. I really liked the website! I hope to use this site in the future.

Differentiation

Once the teacher has the gathered information about their students' pre-knowledge level, he/she can teach them more effectively. There are multiple ways to differentiate a lesson or unit. The way I decided to use this pre-quiz information was to split the students up into groups. For my activity, there were 5 students that excelled, 12 that had some prior knowledge but still needed help, and then there were 5 students that appeared to have limited knowledge on the subject matter. The way I was able to show the breakdown of this differentiation was in a flow chart that I made using Lucidchart.

Another way to differentiate the lesson that I did not include in the flow chart could be:

Above Level:

These students will work on the classroom computers and put together their own facts & opinion statements. They can then quiz one another to receive extra practice.

At Level:

These students can be split into teams and play a game. They can compete against the other teams to find which sentences are facts and which sentences are opinions in an already prepared worksheet or presentation game. Similar to the Kahoot pre-quiz.

Below Level:

These students would be able to receive special one on one attention with the teacher. The teacher can take the time to try and communicate individually to the students so that they are able to understand. Towards the end of this grouped time, the teacher can also give them a brief run down of what they will be doing the next day. Therefore, they will be more prepared or slightly ahead for the next topic they will cover.