Pre-Assessment

Pre-assessment

The purpose of a pre-assessment is to find out where the students are at and how I can teach them more about a certain subject. In this unit I will be teaching on Time and Money - Time can be to the 5 minutes, as well as money and how money can be coins and dollars (counting and writing money amounts). Since this will be our first time interacting with the students I want to start out by getting to know them and them getting to know us. We as teachers will talk to the students and gain their trust before we start working with them. Then we will ask them questions about math and get a feel for how comfortable they are with it. Below are the questions we will ask. After this, we will give them a worksheet to find out where they are at, and how comfortable they are with our math topic.

• Do you like math? Why or why not?

• What is your favorite part of math?

• Do you get bored in math?

• What is your favorite subject in school?

• What has been your favorite math lesson?

• What do you do when you are confused?

Standards

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.C.7

Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.C.8

Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?

Lesson Objectives

1. Students will be able to show time by writing and telling it from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

2. Students will be able to identify and tell us the value of each dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. As well as telling us total amounts of money when added or subtracted together.

3. Students will be able to solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately.

Validity and Reliability

Validity is that the test is compared to other tests or items and that it is measuring what it claims to measure. We will use validity at Lincoln Elementary School by making sure our items are valid. We will make sure the items on the tests are consistent with the standards we are using.

Reliability is comparing a test to itself. So our tests will be consistent as we pre-asses and post-assess our students. We will use the exact same way we tested them for the pre-assessment as we use the post-assessment. We will make sure the items on the tests are consistent with the other items on the test and that they will show how well the child does.

Administration Conditions

We will administer the pre-assessment on Monday, December 3, 2018, at 9 AM in Lincoln Elementary School. Taylor Smith and I will administer the pre-assessments to our group of second-grade students. They are the lowest level of students in second grade and we have 8 students in our group.

Preassessment Worksheets

Materials

Dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, whiteboard, markers, worksheet, clock.