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Case: Administrative Woes Mrs. Banks and her sixth grade colleagues are having an issue with giving assessments. The district mandates each content-area department to give a nine-weeks exam that covers all material taught during each grading period. The assessment contains between thirty to forty multiple-choice questions and two constructed-response questions for each content area. Many students are not finishing the assessments within the one class period allotted; therefore, teachers are taking two days to give nine-weeks exams. The administration have instructed teachers to give the exam in one day, whether the students have finished or not. How should Mrs. Banks and her team handle this situation? Should the teachers test for one day and not allow the students to finish to appease the administration? How will they collect effective data if the students do not complete the assessment? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I think the sixth grade team needs to address this matter with their administration explaining that the data collected from these incomplete assessments are not reliable, nor are they a good representation of what the students have learned. It sounds like this mandated assessment is one of those requirements that makes no sense, but if implemented properly, it could be effective. I would suggest altering the schedules to give the students more time to complete the assessment in one day, which would require each class to test on different days. For example, first, third, and fifth period test on Thursday, and second, fourth, and sixth period test on Friday. If I were on the sixth grade team, I would compile a schedule in advance to show administration, as well as have the ideas I want to present documented to show that I am not trying to get out of the nine weeks assessment, but instead, I am trying to make it more beneficial. |
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