Today, I handed out an interim report on student grades. We then discussed the problems present in the test itself and in the essay.
I stressed that they will get three hours in total to read, comprehend and answer 30 multiple choice questions, as well as to create two essays on a topic presented at the time of the exam. This means being able to do each step in about an hour (they had three in-class hours to create one essay, which many of them did not complete).
I then handed back their multiple choice exams (which were to be returned at the end of class). Individually, they were to do the following:
1. On a separate sheet of paper, write down the numbers of the questions you got incorrect.
2. Look at each question that was incorrectly answered and determine what problem of mechanics, grammar, punctuation or comprehension was not known or needs to be worked on.
3. Once you are finished, bring this up to me to review (and return your test).
4. Finally, you are to go to the back of the room, choose the tutorials that tie to the problems you found today and read them as homework or in RTI until you are confident that you have retained them.
6. Go on-line (or ask me) for exercises to help in specific areas. The great thing about going on-line is that they have real-time responses to your answers.
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