Assessments

Wow, this stage has definitely changed my way of thinking. To me, assessing students used to mean giving a test after every chapter of the book. Assessments don't have to be an hour long, some are short like the "fist of five" for example.
I also realized that I do have different strategies of assessing, I just didn't know I was doing it. However, the nontraditional assessments I would conduct had many loop holes to them. As my students would exit class, I would ask every student to tell me where the numerator and denominator were located. "The numerator is on the top, and denominator is on the bottom", my students would answer, but I never thought of asking them questions such as, "What does a denominator/numerator/fraction represent?"