Quiz 0.1 to 0.4

Assessments are an opportunity to find out what students understand. Questions should be carefully crafted to give students the opportunity to show what they know, but also expose what they don’t. When it comes to creating assessments, we follow these guiding principles:

• Start with the Learning Targets. There should be a very strong alignment between what is learned in class (Math Medic Lessons), what is done for practice (Math Medic homework) and assessments (Math Medic quizzes and tests). The throughline that holds all of these together is the Learning Targets.

• Assess more than just procedural skills. We want students to grasp deep conceptual ideas, not just follow an algorithm to arrive at an answer. We write creative questions that reveal student thinking by asking them to explain, decide, defend, and demonstrate their reasoning.

• Vary how an idea is assessed. By changing up what we ask students to find or how we present the given information, we can determine with greater specificity where students are in the learning progression. We use a mix of basic, intermediate, and advanced questions on every assessment.

Learn more about the Math Medic Assessment Platform (MMAP).