It looks like Amy isn't going to post anything. Her advice to anyone that has to give finals is to only give multiple choice finals. My advice is to only give a multiple choice final instead of a fun project. I have to give credit to my US History students (most of which I love) because they did really well on a 100 question final. I wrote the final, but didn't want 100 questions. It is hard to find 100 good questions about US History from mostly 1860-1936. The average was around 75/100. My geography students had a fun project to create a children's book about the five themes of geography. Out of approximately 70 students only 25 turned it in. During finals they took a unit test on Latin America. Students missed questions such as:
The capital of Panama is:
a. Mexico City
b. Belmopan
c. Washington, D.C.
d. Panama City
The choice is obvious to everyone but 9th graders. 5 students chose Mexico City (3 of them are Mexican citizens), 4 chose our nation's capital Washington D.C. and 10 chose Belmopan (the capital of Belize). Granted this was supposed to be a question to help them feel good about at least one question on the test. I can only do so much!
At least I get to start over with a whole new set of geography students next semester!
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Viva Mexico!!!!!
Monday my Geography students took a Map test of Central America (including Mexico) and the Caribbean (just the large islands). There were 13 countries they had to match. I was pretty proud of the fact that the average score was 11 (The average score on the US States test was 15 & Europe was 10). The most exciting part was that every single student could correctly identify Mexico on a map. Of course I may have helped them with a hint - The largest country on the map is Mexico & by leaving the map of Mexico on the wall, but they usually don't pay attention. I cannot say all of my students know where California is. I have 10 students (born and raised in California) that cannot identify it on a map. Friday is South America - I'm hoping for 100% on Chile and Brazil!
- Mel
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