Saturday, March 27, 2010
STRATEGIES FOR SOL
As the SOL exams draw closer, my team and I plan to zoom in on some strategies that can be used to help our students succeed on their math exam. We plan to compile practice questions from each SOL objective together with SOL test questions. When we begin our review, after each objective is reviewed, the students will get an assessment with questions that relate to that objective to see how ready they are for the test.These questions will also be aligned with the SOL language. After all these objectives are reviewed and tested, we will have enough data to know where we stand and what needs additional remediation. I believe this is a good strategy because we used it at our school last year and we made it in math. Our students also practiced on Jefferson Lab (Virginia SOL practice tests).
Posted by Almarie at 2:44 PM
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This is similar to one of the review strategies I have used as well. I found that using the SOL language on review questions throughout the year was extremely helpful for my students.
ReplyDeleteI always tell my students there are 2 "tricks" to passing the SOL test. Trick #1 is knowing the information and trick #2 is understanding what each question is asking. So many of these questions are presented in an awkward manner which confuses the students. The more they see actual questions and wording, the bettter they will do on the test.
ReplyDeleteMs. Ferguson, don't forget the released tests. You don't have to make the pretest or posttest up. Also look into the Texas TAKS test. Their test are very similar to ours.
ReplyDeleteI also take the released tests and break them up into the 5 strands. We work on one strand at a time. Students get copies of questions and we highlight what's important and discuss what questions might be eliminated right away. This helps the students feel more comfortable when they encounter the word problems on the actual test.
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