Wrapping Up

   We had to create a post-test for the students, which was the same as the pre-test, but we were asked to change two of the questions. I left three questions that I found to be crucial to the information that my group taught. Then I added a multiple choice question about who wrote the Declaration of Independence and a true/false question that asked if Patriots were the people who wanted freedom. I added those two questions because we focused a lot of those two concepts, so I'm hoping those are things that they remembered and took away from our lesson. Pre and post-tests are extremely important to units because you need to assess what students knew before you started teaching, so you can figure out which items you need to spend more time on during the direct lesson. The post-test is a great way to check whether or not the students fully comprehended everything that was taught or if they still only know what they knew before the lesson. I met up with some of my group members and we created our pre-test questions together. I did the post-test questions on my own since we just had to slightly alter it and I asked the other members to look over it and make sure that they approved of the questions. The hardest part about choosing these questions was just figuring out what the most important parts are since we couldn't ask questions about every little thing we taught. It's also tricky sometimes to find the perfect wording for each question in order to avoid any confusion when the students have to take the tests. I used the results of the assessments and lessons to edit my lesson plans in a way that I thought would improve it in the future.