Computer Lab Pre-Assessment

This is a preassessment that I use at the beginning of the school year. It is offered as an example of assessments that I use for my students.

Computer Lab Pre-Assessment -- (Surveys of Interest and awareness)

 Computer Writing Lab Assignment -- Seventh Grade English 

Please leave this sheet in the computer lab.

Computer Writing Lab Pre-Assessment
Purposes: 1. Assess your current skill level for using the computer.
2. Provide information about your writing interests and abilities.
In this assignment you will tell your teacher about your writing skills, problems, and goals.
-- You will not receive points on this assignment unless it shows honest reflection about your own writing.

The fonts you may use are Times or Courier in 12 or 14 pt. size, or Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Lucinda Bright or Lucinda Sans, Monoco, or New York in 11 or 12 pt. size.

Start with the name block at the top of the page.

[Your Name]
Dorsey [your period]
Lab Pre-Assessment
[today’s date]

Space down a couple of lines and begin writing.

Tell the teacher about the following:

1. Your writing strengths – What do you do well when you write?

2. Your writing interests – What sorts of things do you like to write – either in or outside of school?

3. Your improvement in writing – What have you gotten better at (in writing) over the past year or so?

4. Your writing weaknesses – What problems do you have when you write? What is hard for you? What do teachers and others say you need to do better?

5. Your writing goals – What goals would you like to set to improve your writing by the end of your seventh grade year?

Save your document as [Your last name] D[your period] Lab

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Prewriting for this assignment:
NAME __________________________ PERIOD ______
MARK EACH OF THE FOLLOWING AS A WRITING STRENGTH OR WEAKNESS, AND BRING THIS TO THE COMPUTER LAB.
Strength Weakness TYPES OF WRITING:
_____ _____ Telling a story (narration)
_____ _____ Convincing someone of something (persuading)
_____ _____ Explaining how to do something
_____ _____ Answering a question
_____ _____ Reflecting on something you’ve read
_____ _____ Describing

IDEAS AND CONTENT
_____ _____ Coming up with ideas – Prewriting
_____ _____ Deciding on a topic -- prewriting
_____ _____ Developing ideas – being able to explain or describe them well
_____ _____ Choosing details

ORGANIZATION
_____ _____ Writing an interesting beginning
_____ _____ Figuring out where to put the details
_____ _____ Writing an effective ending (conclusion)

VOICE
_____ _____ Letting my personality shine through
_____ _____ Writing so that my readers can understand and enjoy what I write
_____ _____ Knowing who I’m “talking” to when I write

SENTENCE FLUENCY
_____ _____ Writing complete, correct sentences
_____ _____ Using a variety of sentences – some long, some short, words arranged in different ways

WORD CHOICE
_____ _____ Finding just the right word
_____ _____ Being original instead of saying things the same old way everyone else does

CONVENTIONS
_____ _____ Capitalization
_____ _____ Punctuation
_____ _____ Spelling
_____ _____ Dividing into paragraphs and remembering to indent them
_____ _____ Remembering to edit
_____ _____ Caring enough to edit

PRESENTATION
_____ _____ The dog ate my paper! (0r) I lose my work before I get it handed in.
_____ _____ My papers get messed up between the time I do them
and the time I hand them in.
_____ _____ My typing is so slow I can’t get a paper done in computer lab
_____ _____ My handwriting is so bad you won’t be able to tell
what I’m writing even if it’s really good stuff.

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