A Step Back

    Before moving any further into my journey, I'd like to take a step back and reflect on post and pre-test assessments. 

    In my research, I have found that pre and post tests are absolutely necessary to assess student knowledge and to monitor progress. 
According to Boston University, pre and post tests are a way "to quantify the knowledge attained in the class from a group of students with diverse learning styles and educational backgrounds". You can read the entire article of why pre and post tests should be used, when to test, why not to use them, how to write a test and how to collect the data here. 

    When working with my group to create pre-test and post-test questions, we struggled a bit because we were not sure of how much students actually comprehended and learned. We then realized that this is what the tests are for. 

    Since we were not the main teachers in the classroom and we did not know the students. The pre-test was the hardest to create. Because, we were unsure of what the students have been previously taught in related to our lessons we struggled to select questions that students would not be confused by. 

    In our findings, we realized that students may not understand everything that they are being taught and therefore the pre-test and post-test scores could be very similar, very different, or could be the same

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