1. My problem is that my test scores are in the middle of all the middle schools in the district and I want to improve them. I want to address the issue of not having enough time to provide students with the proper feedback on test and quizzes because I believe this will help with the fix the problem. The curriculum has one day throughout each quarter for makeup day but the curriculum does not include review days or days for assessments.
2. My plan is to find a program that will allow my students to take an assessment and at the end of the assessment they can see what questions they missed. Along with this, I would also like the ability to give students feedback. For instance, any questions they missed not only had the correct answer but it would also explain why answer is correct. My backup plan would be to create a recording that goes over the quiz. This would happen if the program did not work or if it cost too much money. I have never heard of someone doing anything to solve this problem, I just know that they either sacrifice time in another lesson or they just decide to not go over the test like I do.
3. The plan is to implement this with my eighth graders. Right now they are taking a course for high school credit and they have to be prepared for the final exam. Without us going over the quiz together, the students will not know why they missed what they which could cause them to fail the final. My experimental group would be about sixty students in an earth, space systems class. To start this off, I would like to implement a few small quizzes, have them retake them and then move onto bigger quizzes and possibly the unit test.
4a. According to Tom Woisly's article, How Do Teachers Provide Feedback, the best time to provide feedback is when a student is engaged in a task. This means that I will need a website that can provide immediate feed to the students when the test is over. The article also goes on to say that all students need feedback, not the ones who are struggling. This should not be problem, because all students will take the quizzes so everyone should get the feedback they need. According to Fred Jones, teachers should praise, prompt and leave when giving feedback. I will have make sure that I somehow I see their scores, praise them, find out what they need help with and then leave so I may have this interaction with other students. In order to do this I will need a program that will have some type of message at the end to tell them how they did on their assessment. Most articles talked about feedback as a way to tell students what they need to improve upon. With this being said, I will need a program that does not just give the correct answers but will also allow for students to see the areas they are a missing. After looking at what feedback is, I know that I am going to have to have a program that provide feedback that is quick, meaningful, positive, and for all students.
4b. As I searched for a program that would offer everything I needed to provide my students with appropriate feedback, I stumbled upon http://www.classmarker.com/. It is a free website that allows for you to create multiple types of quizzes. Teachers can put in feedback at the end that can tell students the correct answers or they can place a little explanation of why each answer is correct. There is a section to create a class and import the class roster so that each child has their own password which allows for them to take their own test and see their results along with the results from previous quizzes. Quizzes can have time limits and limits for the amount of times a student make take the quiz. At the end there is a place to put a comment if a student gets a certain score or higher and one that may explain to the child the need to retake the quiz. Even though it is free, a person may upgrade for a $25 fee. Another website that is also available is Google forms which can provide a lot the same resources but it was not as user friendly.
When I Google searched classmarker.com, it was one of the first few websites that came up but now when I go back, I am having a difficultly finding it. Many of the websites want to provide me with different assessment tools or ideas, not a program that can give quick feedback after a quiz. After many Google searches I found that the best way to find programs is to type in “test and quiz makers.”
5. In order to test to see if this works with my students, I am going to give a quiz on different types of rocks and see what their scores are. I am then going to ask that they redo the quiz a few days later to see if their score increase. My goal is to have everyone pass the test with a 60% or higher which can be a challenge for some of my lower level students. The ultimate test will come when they take their unit. If I get a passing rate of 70% of my students, then I will know that this is something that worked.
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http://www.classmarker.com/
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