Assessment and Evaluation:
Following are some of the suggested assessment and evaluation techniques for the circulatory system unit. These are mere suggestions and can be accommodated according to individual classrooms.
Assessment
Online quizzes as be used for formative assessments. Through these quizzes students get to reflect back on their understanding. Teachers also get a chance to make modifications for their future lessons.
Home work provides an opportunity to reinforce the concepts that are taught in class.
Following slips can be used both for Diagnostic or Debriefing purposes.
Worksheets can provide extra practice for students. It can also help a teacher to diagnostic any misconceptions.
Reflections help students to reflect back and evaluate their own understanding.
Class discussions help students to learn from each other. These also provide another opportunity for the teacher to look into any misconceptions related to the taught concept.
Through observations teacher get to know the engagement level of the students.
Evaluation
This is usually done as a summative task at the end of the whole unit. It helps teachers to report on a student's level of achievement in regards to specific learning expectations.
This summative task is an investigation type of task that helps students to make connections with the outer world. For example the case study that I have included in my lessons will help my students to see the effects of drugs in the real world sports.
By participating in classroom labs, students get to do their own calculations and get a chance to compare it with the historical data. For example my students will get to do a lab where they will build a blood pressure measuring device and then will use it to take blood pressure readings.
This activity can be performed in the classroom with minimum equipment.
Following are some of the suggested assessment and evaluation techniques for the circulatory system unit. These are mere suggestions and can be accommodated according to individual classrooms.
Assessment
Online quizzes as be used for formative assessments. Through these quizzes students get to reflect back on their understanding. Teachers also get a chance to make modifications for their future lessons.
Home work provides an opportunity to reinforce the concepts that are taught in class.
- Home Work
Following slips can be used both for Diagnostic or Debriefing purposes.
- Admit and Exit Slips
Worksheets can provide extra practice for students. It can also help a teacher to diagnostic any misconceptions.
- Worksheets
Reflections help students to reflect back and evaluate their own understanding.
- Reflections
Class discussions help students to learn from each other. These also provide another opportunity for the teacher to look into any misconceptions related to the taught concept.
- Class discussions
Through observations teacher get to know the engagement level of the students.
- Observations
Evaluation
This is usually done as a summative task at the end of the whole unit. It helps teachers to report on a student's level of achievement in regards to specific learning expectations.
- Unit Test
This summative task is an investigation type of task that helps students to make connections with the outer world. For example the case study that I have included in my lessons will help my students to see the effects of drugs in the real world sports.
By participating in classroom labs, students get to do their own calculations and get a chance to compare it with the historical data. For example my students will get to do a lab where they will build a blood pressure measuring device and then will use it to take blood pressure readings.
This activity can be performed in the classroom with minimum equipment.
- Measuring Heart Rate Activity
- Chapter Quizzes