Self Reflective Assessment

To check my students understanding of the content that I presented in my lesson plan I used a formative assessment, an authentic assessment, a formal assessment, and a summative assessment. The formative assessment that I used to asses my students’ knowledge was the individual whiteboards that I used during my whole group instruction. These allowed me to easily and quickly see immediate information on whether or not my students were understanding the content I was presenting. I noticed during this assessment that many of my students probably had prior knowledge or understanding of maps since many of them were able to answer open-ended questions quickly and effectively. It also helps with determining if there was any need to modify and adjust …show more content…
For example, I can tell by Gingers’ quiz grade and by what I observed throughout the lesson that she knew the content and simply did not take her time and read the questions. I think that since we were doing the assessment during their lunch and recess time she thought the quicker she finished the quicker she could go out to recess. Additionally, Janie’s scores were as predicted she is a good student, but I also think that she began to feel restless and wanted to go outside to recess and that’s what caused her to misspell several key vocabulary terms and not capitalize the title of her map on the illustration assessment. I also able to see that Jason really likes and does well when assessments are visual and authentic in nature. I believe that this is due to the fact that he is a little behind in reading so the visual clues really helped him to excel on the two visual and authentic assessments. In contrast, it is easy to see that Jackie is not a visual learner as Jason is, because she tended to perform better on the quiz rather than the visual assessments. I think that this is due to the fact that Jackie has a hard time using symbols or seeing how something can symbolize something else. Lastly, I was very pleased and shocked by Lisa’s assessment results, because she is one of my lower rated ELLs, but I could tell that she was really taking her time and listening when I read the direction. I am very pleased to see that she understood the content. In conclusion, I think that the information from this assessment will drive future lesson planning, because it has given me insight to the various learning styles and assessment preferences of my students. Moreover, it has showed me that, as a whole, that my students’ level of understanding was beyond my expectations and that they have had previous experience or lessons on maps and map skills. Therefore, if I was to do another