Assignment 3 Assessment for Learning (click to see assessment)
Not only is teaching Geometry students to do a construction difficult, it is also difficult to assess mastery of those same constructions. A student might be able to draw an image that looks to be the same as the original, but they didn’t really use the correct steps. I have tried a variety of ways of assessing my students on the use of constructions in previous years, but none of them have felt like they were the right fit. I included this artifact because I am hopeful that this assessment will meet all of our needs.
This assessment works like this: the students will be assigned two videos (created by me on Youtube) to watch. After watching the video, or even during the video, they need to describe each step that is being taken during the construction. I feel that this will do a better job at showing me if the students understand how to do the construction, or if they are just “faking it” for the assessment.
There were not that many roadblocks while creating the assessment. The main one was that I needed to create 5 to 6 mini videos. Since this is not something that can be done as a screencast, I needed to employ the help of someone else to record me doing each construction. Thank goodness for husbands and children! The good news was that I learned how to use Youtube’s video editor, which was surprisingly easy to work with.
Overall, I am very happy with the results of this assessment. I look forward to seeing how their grades, and their general understanding of constructions, change due to the changes I have made during this course.
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