Assessment Quizzes

 

In order to better assess where each class is, we’ve developed a set of “quizzes” for grades 1st through 5th.  Administration of the assessment quiz is not required but strongly encouraged.  We believe that it will be a useful tool in determining what a class’ strong and weak areas are and will help guide teachers on what material they can gloss over and what they need to focus more on.  It could also be very useful in determining how to challenge students on a more individual basis as well as helpful in grouping the students in teams for games/activities.  It is not necessary for you to submit the results of the quiz to us but we would certainly welcome them, if you chose to do so.  Any feedback you have on the quizzes and the results will be useful information.

 

When administered, it should be emphasized to the children that these are only intended for assessment of where they are at and should not be considered a test.  Students should not help one another nor should a student guess.  They should simply answer the questions that they know and either leave the rest blank or write a question mark.  Teachers should encourage the students to write notes on the quiz elaborating on their knowledge of a particular material, if they are able to.  Teachers should take an activity sheet for the students to work on as they “finish” their quizzes.

 

The 1st grade assessment quizzes include a Listen for the Numbers quiz and a Colors quiz.  We will be developing another quiz for Greetings and Magic Words in the future.  We also have a matching quiz (similar to that intended for higher grade levels) that includes greetings, magic words, body parts, family, days of the week, etc. for those students that may be more advanced.  Since first graders are still working on their writing skills, the matching quiz is spaced out quite generously and in color.  It is therefore more costly to reproduce.  We also have a Listen for the Colors quiz but it is in color as well and hence expensive to reproduce.  Both these quizzes could be administered on a more individual basis at the teacher’s discretion.  For a larger-scale assessment, we have developed an alternative color quiz in which a board with numbered color tiles is used in conjunction with a Spanish color answer sheet.  Below is an example of the foam board chart to be displayed to the class and a portion of the associated answer sheet.

 

                                                                   1      2         3       4        5

 

 

    6       7        8        9      10

 

11

 

Los Colores:   ♥  (Using the color chart, write the number of each color below.)

 

A) Rojo = ______

 

B) Azul = ______

 

C) Amarillo = ______

 

D) Verde = ______

 

The teacher should display the chart where the whole class can view it and then use the overhead projector to read each color name to the class — giving students enough time between reading each color name so that they can write the associated number (found on the chart) on the answer sheet.

 

The Listen for the Numbers quiz should also be administered using the overhead projector to read each number to the students.  For the benefit of the advanced students, the back of the quiz includes numbers up to 100.  (If you believe you have an advanced set of pupils that should be challenged, read the back page numbers as well.  Be sure to have a separate activity sheet for the rest of the class to work on while they wait for you to finish administering the challenge portion.)

 

The 2nd grade assessment quiz includes more material than the 1st grade but less than the general assessment and are therefore compact but single sided.  The students at this level should be able to handle the space limitations of the general quiz but are still struggling to read Spanish.  The teacher can use the overhead projector to read the various Spanish labels to the children as they are working on it.  (Be sure to have an activity sheet for the students to work on as they “finish”.)

 

For grades 3rd through 5th, use the compact, double sided assessment quiz.  Most of the children in these grade levels should be able to read the labels but the teacher may have to help the few who have had limited Spanish exposure.  (Be sure to have an activity sheet for the students to work on as they “finish”.)

 

 

Please note that some formatting was lost when the quizzes were converted to html.  For Word versions of these quizzes, follow these links:

 

 

We developed a quiz results chart that you can use for logging the results of your class.  Note that there are seven sheets associated with the log.  Please click here for an excel version.