Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Won't Show What She Knows There is a student in Mrs. Moreland's second grade class that is extremely smart. Her work is great and she is doing better than anyone in the class. However, when it comes to assessing, she says she doesn't want to do it and that she isn't going to do it. As a result, all of the students test scores are the lowest in the class. The teacher has documented and the teacher has used incentives. She has also made administration aware but administration has said that the test scores are the data they are looking at. What can the teacher do in this scenario? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I agree with the other solution that is posted. The teacher may get more out of the student if they are assessed in a different way. For example, the teacher may need to verbally assess the student or test her individually. It appears to me that she is searching for attention, and this is one way she knows how to get it. You may also work with the student to develop her own goals and incentives for her to do better. If she is involved in planning her own reward then it is obviously something she is interested in, and she may be more willing to do better.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: I agree; another form of assessment could be tried to see if that helps. Also, the student can be asked to verbalize why she doesn't do the assessments to see what reason she gives Rated On: October 19, 2014 2:39 am Rated By: uZyvaP