Using A Quiz As An Assessment Tool Works
Everyone loves a good quiz.
They can be a fun way to motivate and engage your students and a great informal tool for demonstrating their knowledge. I am all about fun in my classroom. I find it easy to disguise learning through fun, games, competitions and my students don’t even realise it is schoolwork. I use quizzes all the time in class as both a pre and post-assessment in our learning on various topics.
You can deliver a quiz in many ways and I always like to change it up.
Individually - have the questions up on the board and students are given a specific time to write their answers on their paper. When time is up, they must swap it with their neighbour to mark and the teacher reads out the answers
Team Challenge - students sit in groups of four and number themselves 1-4. The number one student from each group stands and teacher aims a question at the first group. If the child gets it correct, then the team is awarded a point and the teacher moves on to the next group with a new question. If the child happens to give the incorrect answer the question is repeated for the next group to attempt. Once all groups have had a turn, number one sits down, and number two child stands up for a turn. Continue until everyone has had a turn
True/False Quiz - students are given a sheet with all the questions on it and must decide whether it is true or false. This can then be also given as a post-assessment and students can look back on their results and see if improvements have been made.
Multiple Choice - devise a PowerPoint style display on the IWB with the quiz questions and three answers to choose from. One at a time, students must come up to the front and decide upon the correct answer.
Completed a unit on Fairy Tales? Here are some questions to start you off…
What did the 3 pigs use to build their homes? Straw, sticks, bricks
How did the big bad wolf get inside the 3rd pig's house? Down the chimney
Who does Cinderella dance with at the ball? The Prince
What does Cinderella lose at the ball? Glass slipper
What vegetable does Cinderella ride in? Pumpkin
What animal pulls Cinderella’s carriage? Mice
Who was Little Red Riding Hood going to visit with her basket of food? Her sick grandmother
How do Hansel and Gretel kill the old woman in the gingerbread house? Pushed her into the oven/fire and closed the door
In Sleeping Beauty, what is it that sends her to sleep? She pricks her finger
How many years did Sleeping Beauty, sleep for? 100 years
How does Sleeping Beauty wake up? She is kissed by a Prince
Where did the witch keep Rapunzel? In a tower
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