Topic:
Beginning of the year student survey
Grade Level Category:
7-12
Strategy:
Self-Assessment
Purpose for the Assessment:
- To have students self-assess
- To improve study habits
- To use in intervention
Materials Required:
Survey
Description of the Activity:
This activity provides insight to students' attitudes toward math, confidence in doing math, and makes them accountable for their study habits. This information is useful to the teacher for intervention, providing extra practice, and giving feed back to the students to enhance improvement.
Reproducible Page(s)
Student Survey
Extension(s):
Re-administer the survey after first quarter grades. Ask the students to re-assess their survey and indicate what, if anything, has changed. Follow up with the following questions:
- Are you pleased with your quarter grade? Explain.
- How long did you study for your tests? Do you feel it was an adequate amount of time?
- How did you study? What materials did you use?
- Is there anything you would do differently next quarter that would improve your grade? Explain.
Management Tips:
I found this survey and the follow-up questions very valuable in helping students learn to study, being accountable for their decisions, and giving them an opportunity to learn ways to improve their grade.
Reference(s) of Source(s):
Adapted from Transition Mathematics, Scott, Foresman and Company, Grenville, Illinois, 1990.
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