To check for student understanding without using intimidating pop quizzes.
Outcome
Students will be empowered to own their own learning with more frequent and less high-stakes forms of feedback beyond formal assessments.
Action Steps
Develop an alternative, non-quiz formative assessment that will gauge students understanding of discreet content or skills.
Observation of students is crucial to gaining understanding of their learning, so use focused observation forms to record student progress.
As students gain comfort with alternative formative assessments, provide students with rubrics and help them learn to self-score.
Further gauge students learning and comfort with the assessed content or skills by asking students about how they fared with an assignment and what they did or did not learn.
See the attached addendum for an example of an alternative formative assessment (dipsticks).
