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why pre assess?


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titlepre assess before teaching

Pre assess ensures we are teaching can teach at the sweet spot - neither too easy, nor too hard - that is we are can teaching "something new" on "firm learning foundations".

Once learners have finished the finding and firming learning foundations phase and moved on to the teaching on firm learning foundations phase there is no need to do further pre assess.

The sooner the teacher pre assesses ahead of teaching the more accurate (info) ...

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titleaccurate pre assess

A trial and improvement pre assess plan is

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more efficient at collecting accurate data and less stressful for the learners than a pre assess everything approach.

Every timely practice scheme of learning should have a scheme of pre assess. The sooner the teacher pre assesses ahead of teaching:

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We've found one question asked and answered to give a false positive approximately 20% of the time, so learner should be asked 2, ideally 3 questions on suitable layers from a topic before the teacher teaches the topic. The easiest way to do this is for the teacher of  "new to timely practice learners" to use a pre assess scheme in conjunction with the scheme of learning.

... and the more useful (info) the data is.

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titleusing pre assess data improves attainment

When the teacher uses pre assess data to plan their teaching they will find 

  • the easier and more effective the teaching and learning in the lesson will be,

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  • and quicker and more easily

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  • the learning of the lesson will become firm foundations for future learning.

How to create a pre assess assignment

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