Training module

Formative assessment with exit tickets and error analysis

Formative assessment gamit ang exit tickets at error analysis

Design two-minute exit tickets, read the patterns in wrong answers, and decide what to reteach tomorrow, with help from the Assessment Center's auto-scored quizzes.

Time: 35 minutes
For: All SHS mathematics teachers
Tools: Presentation, Spreadsheet

You will be able to

Write an exit ticket whose distractors each reveal a specific misconception.
Run a quick error analysis by hand or with the Assessment Center report.
Choose a reteaching move for the most common error.

Module

What formative assessment is for

Formative assessment changes tomorrow's lesson; it is not graded. The ILAW format asks for it in every session and requires accommodations. The quickest reliable form is a two- or three-item exit ticket collected in the last five minutes.

Designing diagnostic distractors

Explain

Each wrong choice should come from a known error, so that the choice a learner picks tells you what they think. For f(x) = x² − 3 at x = −4: the correct answer is 13; the distractor −19 comes from writing −4² = −16; the distractor 19 from dropping the sign on −3. The problem bank on this site stores a misconception note per distractor for exactly this purpose.

f(-4)=(-4)^2-3=13

Three exit-ticket formats

Which student is correct? Show two worked solutions, one with a common error; learners pick and justify.
One problem, one sentence: solve, then write what you found hardest.
Confidence check: solve, then rate confidence 1–3. Low confidence with a correct answer still needs attention.

Error analysis in five minutes

Evaluate

Sort tickets into piles by the error, not by right/wrong. Count the piles. If one error has more than a third of the class, reteach it to everyone tomorrow; if it is a small group, plan a guided-practice station. The Assessment Center does this sorting automatically for auto-scored quizzes and shows which misconception each distractor signals.

Reteaching moves

Error pattern	Move
Sign errors	Number line with coloured arrows; learners narrate each step aloud.
Procedure applied in wrong situation	Compare-and-contrast pair of problems side by side.
Vocabulary confusion	Frayer model for the term, in English and Filipino.
Reads the problem wrong	Highlight the question, restate it in own words before solving.

Try it

Write a three-item exit ticket for tomorrow's lesson with a misconception note for each distractor.
Run one quiz from the Assessment Center with a class and read the error-analysis report.
Pick the top error and write the reteaching move you will use.