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**Teachers know how to test for student progress. ** The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil.  **Evidence 1:** Clicker Quiz on Quotations – formative assessment


 * Rationale 1:** This quiz was created to assess whether or not my sixth grade English students understood the rules for writing quotations in sentences. I created the quiz using clickers. This was the first time I used clickers in my classroom to assess student learning. The multiple choice quiz consisted of four questions. Each question said to select the sentence that uses quotation marks and punctuation correctly. The board displayed the same sentence each time, but with only one of the four choices using punctuation correctly. The students used their clickers to choose the correct sentence. After all the students punched in their answer, I ended the question on the SmartBoard. Immediately afterwards, the board displayed the correct answer and students received immediate feedback and knew if they selected the correct answer. After class, I was able to print a report that told me how each individual student did on the quiz. This was a very fast way for me to assess if my students understood how to write quotations and decide if I needed to do any reteaching.

I quickly saw that for the most part, my students understood how to write quotations with proper punctuation. There was one problem - about three-quarters of the class got the same question incorrect. They were unclear on how to write quotations with a break in the middle. They chose the answer that capitalized the second part of the quotation, not realizing that it shouldn’t be capitalized because it’s still part of the original sentence. When the results appeared on the board, we were able to discuss the mistake immediately and correct any misconceptions. As a teacher, I learned about how important it is for students to receive timely feedback and using the clickers helped me give it to them. My students received immediate feedback and this helped them build their understanding of writing quotations in sentence.

8.K.2 The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes.  This lesson demonstrates how I was able to create and use a clicker assessment informally in the classroom to gauge student understaning of a specific concept. 8.S.1 The teacher appropriately uses a variety of formal and informal assessment techniques (e,g, observation, portfolios of student work, teacher-made tests, performance tasks, projects, students self-assessments, peer assessment, and standardized tests) to enhance her or his knowledge of learners, evaluate students’ progress and performances, and modify teaching and learning strategies.  Using informal, formative assessment like clickers enhanced my knowledge of my students’ understanding of writing quotations. It showed me and the students what was unclear and needed to be retaught. 8.D.1 The teacher values ongoing assessment as essential to the instructional process and recognizes that many different assessment strategies, accurately and systematically used, are necessary for monitoring and promoting student learning.  This type of assessment was important in the learning process and effectively and efficiently let me monitor student progress individually.