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Student as
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Pre-Post
Assessment Tool
The pre-post test assessment
tool is used to tap into students' prior knowledge and to evaluate how
well they have learned after participating in the Student as an Historian
module.
More specifically,
the tests are designed to:
· Help teachers and
the Distance Learning Instructor tailor and improve instruction;
· Give the student
feedback on ways to learn more effectively;
· Determine the levels
at which students are operating;
· Determine progress
made by students over time.
Using the
assessment tool:
1. Pre-test
a. Make copies of the test.
b. Administer pre-test before
teaching the module.
c. Set students' minds at
ease.
The increasing prevalence
of institutional testing at various grade levels has made test phobia
more common. Make this evaluation less threatening by explaining its
purpose as outlined above.
d. Remind students that
a pre-test is intended to show what information they already know and
what information they still need to learn. They are not expected to
know all the answers before participating in the module.
e. Share with them that
the same test will be given at the end of the module, (post-test) at
which time they will be able to show what they have learned.
2. Grading
the tests.
· A rubric is included,
see page 8, so that you can evaluate and assign a point value to each
question.
3. Post-test
assessment information.
a. Administer the test.
· read each test
question;
· encourage students
to ask questions if they do not understand the format of a question;
· compare the pre-test
to the post-test;
· determine how well
your students were able to progress over time.
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Student as an
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