Fisher & Frey
What dose CFU stand for?
Checking For Understanding
True or False:
Large-scale testing is a a great way to measure student progress and is overall beneficial for all students, and teachers.
False.
Kohn suggests a quite comfortable place where students can go to calm down for a few minutes as opposed to this form of cooperative discipline parents often use to discipline their child when they misbehave
Timeout
Name some of the ways outlined by Fisher and Frey in which you can check for understanding.
Oral language, questioning, writing, projects and performances, and tests.
In conducting your classroom assessment you should consider all of these EXCEPT which one:
A.Determine how much importance and instructional time you will give to the major topics to be tested.
B.Determine a balance between the available testing time and the number of questions to include
C. Implement the use of one single objective test item.
D. Plan an activity for those students who finish early.
C. Implement the use of one single objective test item.
The goal of the assessment is to measure student understanding using one single objective test item, for example all true or false questions or all multiple choice, could result in memorization instead of true understanding and critical consciousness in answers.
Kohn rejects that with logical consequences students employ this practice of giving students two options because it disguises traditional forms of coercion and appears to allow students to make their own decisions. What is that practice?
Choice
Fill in the blank:
Wrong answers on a test give teachers _________ about what students still need to learn.
Information.
Lets look at the following scenario:
I am a teacher with the following grading system:
Tests & Quizzes: 50-60%
Projects and Papers: 20-30%
Participation: 10%
I assign two midterms throughout the school year, quizzes are given weekly and there are two papers as well. The midterms are worth 50-60% of your grade, I will not give a study guide for the midterm. Two quiz grades may be dropped at the end of the semester. Papers may be resubmitted once with edits for a better grade.
According to Orlich, what is wrong with the way I structure my grading system?
According to Orlich a common grading error is not informing students on what a test will consist of. This forces the student to identify what is important, which is the responsibility of the teacher. Considering how large of a percentage of their grade tests are keeping the students informed is very important.
How does Kohn believe New Discipline programs perpetuate the same message of older models of assertive discipline?
Believes their methods are just as coercive
According to Fisher and Frey, what is the link between teaching and learning?
Checking For Understanding
What is an excellent tool to make sure your students are well informed of the class activities taking place, the grading system you are implementing, and how to keep track of their grade?
A syllabus.
What would Kohn see as an issue in the following situation “if students are being noisy, the teacher should give an unannounced test with the hardest questions on it.”
This is a form of coercive punishment— the teacher is saying “you didn’t do what I wanted, now I am going to make something unpleasant happen to you.