Teachers - a quick question

Go see if the kids actually did their homework without cramming for a test.

Usually, for me, they go over fairly easy ideas or concepts that if you did the homework I ou should be able to answer, but if you didn't there is no way you would know.


I teach hs

If I gave a pop quiz in week 2, it wouldn’t count for much grade-wise. It would most likely be a baseline test - how much knowledge are the students coming to me with.

Sometimes high school teachers give pop quizzes to let kids know that they have to keep up with the daily assignments and not wait before the big test to start studying. Unfortunately, it sounds like your daughter already is keeping up with the work, but she has text anxiety. For an anxious kid, tests that are surprises might be more difficult than larger tests that are expected.

The only thing I can suggest is for her to write down each evening the three most important things she learned from that day's homework, and then in the morning to look over those notes from the last few days so she is prepared for a pop quiz. It might help her feel more in control, and will train her to look for what is most important/what might show up on a quiz.

One more thing- make sure she understands that a score of 50% when the class average is 60% is not terrible. That was a difficult quiz for many of the students.

I don't give pop quizzes but I do give quizzes with one day's notice. I gave one yesterday because I was concerned that during virtual times the kids weren't watching my videos and weren't coming to my Google Meets.

My reasons:
1) To see if the kids were actually paying attention on the virtual days (we are hybrid right now).
2) To remind the kids that they absolutely are responsible for the material I covered.
3) To check if my teaching is effective.

I give them lots of opportunities to get points on different kinds of assignments, too, so the quiz is just a small part of their grade.

A class average of 60% on a pop quiz is pretty low- is she sure it's not a pretest? My kids have definitely had teachers who want to make sure kids are actually doing the work and not waiting to cram before the exam, so throw pop quizzes in there - I have one who is a crammer, so find them helpful as a parent to remind them about time management. But usually they're pretty straightforward and if you've down the hw, you'll do fine - an average of 60% isn't exactly in line.

Now there are also a few who did pretests to see what kids already know about a unit. There were usually a tiny percent of the grade, mostly as their grading system required something in order to input them and he/she wanted a record of them. So 1-2% of grade was pretests.