Ch. 6 Creating Good Test Questions

When do I compose a test with multiple choice questions or an essay assessment? How do I know when I have asked enough questions or too many? Wormeli answered all these questions in this chapter, but still left me wondering when is the perfect time to assess and grade. I like how he wants us to mix it up and use some traditional and some non-traditional prompts. Most teachers in my high school, I could read like a book, he’s going to ask for an essay and she’s going to have a multiple choice test and she’s going to mix all the traditional ways. I want to be the teacher that they always know what is on the test, but in which the test set-up always changes. I really disagree with the double recording because it makes cheating much easier. I understand how the teacher should make different tests for each of their classes, but should I burden myself with more work if the students will just forget the information after they take the test? I believe most teachers don’t actually assess what they planned because they get too creative. Wormeli suggests several ways to stay on task that I may end up referring back to when I become a teacher myself.