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"Assessment is today's means
of modifying tomorrow's instruction."
 Carole Tomlinson

Pre-Assessment Strageties:

Pre-assessment should be used to determine what students know about a topic before it is taught.  This strategy should be regularly used across the curriculum.  This information should be used to make decisions about student strengths and needs, determine flexible grouping, and determine which students are ready for advance instruction.  

 

Teachers need to ask three key questions about pre-assessment:

1.  What do my students know before my teaching begins?

2.  How will I pre-assess my students' prior knowledge and readiness level?

3.  What does the information generated by the pre-assessment tell about the students?

 

 

Examples of Pre-Assessment Strategies:


 

  1. ​Informational Surveys

  2. Questionaires

  3. Inventories

  4. Interest survey

  5. Concept Maps

  6. Entrance or Exit Cards

  7. Game Activites

  8. Picture Interpretation

  9. Self-evaluations

  10. Predict-o-gram

  11. Student interviews

  12. Teacher observations/checklist

  13. Teacher prepared pretest

  14. Pre-writing activies

  15. Questioning

  16. Anticipation Guide

  17. Quick Write

  18. Likert Scale

  19. K-W-L (add column for misconceptions)

  20. Brain Dump (either on paper or in pairs)

 

 

 

Boxing:  

On a large piece of paper, students draw a box in the center of the paper (labeled what do I know?) then draw a smaller box inside of the first box (labeled what do I want to learn). Then on the outside of the first box, write what else do I know and explain how does it fit with the topic.

After students have a few moments to complete their thoughts in the boxes, have them do the following?

In the inside box, draw a visual to explain the topic.

In the middle box, look at all the information and summarize on the back of the paper what does this box say?

 

 

Graffiti Wall:

With large poster paper have students creatively design a Graffiti Wall of things they know about a specific topic of study.  Students are then encouraged to add to the wall throughout the unit as they gain new knowledge.  This is a colorful way to share what they know and have learning on a unit.

 

Squaring Off:

Place a card in each corner of the room with the following phrases:

  • Dirt Road (rarely ever)

  • Paved Road (sometimes)

  • Highway (often)

  • Yellow Brick Road (I have it!)

Instruct the students to go to the corner of the room that matches where they are on the knowledge of a topic.  Students go to the corner of the room and as a group, discuss what they know about the topic, why they choose to this corner, and what they want to know.

Teacher can use this then to form groups or pair students  to engage in activities that fit the knowledge of the content during learning activities.

 

The Five Hardest Questions:

If the teacher ask the five hardest questions in a unit and a students gets 4 out 5 correct, then they don't need to study that material.

 

 

 

 

 

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