Kindergarteners come to you at so many different levels. Most likely you won’t be able to work one on one with everyone for every standard. That immediate feedback helps you know what students you need to work one on one with. That way, you can pull whatever students did not understand the skill and work more closely with them during the next lesson. When you give an exit ticket, you get immediate feedback. There is only one set of directions for students to solve either one or two problems that go along with what they learned during the lesson. They are quick and simple so students can focus on the task before losing attention. Exit tickets are short one or two problem, half sheets of paper that are ideally given after every lesson. There are too many other things teachers and students do throughout the day to give that much time and attention to math assessments. It’s also very unlikely that you’ll be able to give one on one assessments for every standard to every student. There’s always one or two (or five) that are off in lalaland, not paying attention to what problem you’re on in the math test or just looking at their neighbors paper to pretend they’re following along. I tried this and had very small class sizes and it still was a nightmare. It’s unlikely that you’ll be able to give whole group, unit tests that are more than one page. If you’re a kindergarten teacher, you already know how short a kindergartener’s attention span is. Hopefully these math assessment ideas will help you come up with a way to accurately assess your students while sparing you the headache I had! It’s very different assessing a kindergartener who knows the math skill but can’t read the problem than a student who doesn’t understand the math skill. I tried so many different ways of assessing and had a hard time finding a way that would work for these young kids, while also being accurate. Kindergarten math assessments were always such a headache for me.
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