Student Assessment Question List: from “Science for Everyday; A Montessori Based Science Curriculum”
by Erin Galvin Gutierrez
Student assessment in the form of questions tends to be an effective tool. Some questions teachers may consider about students follow:
- Are they grasping the processes involved in the lesson?
- Are they able to carry out the lesson on their own?
- Can/do they help others with this lesson?
- Are they confident or timid?
- Do they have a positive attitude toward the lesson/science?
- Do they have an open mind toward the lesson?
- Are they very curious about the new material?
- Do they explore the new material, or just do as they were shown?
- Do they ask questions?
- Are they afraid to get their hands ‘dirty’, or do they jump right in?
- Do they avoid science?
- How much time do they spend in the science area?
The major process development skills that can be reasonably introduced to the three to six-year-old classroom include observation, measurement, classification, inference, communication, prediction, and recognizing a problem (Manitoba Department of Education and Training, 1991, p. 38-41).
