What is Real-Time assessment?
Most classroom testing is completed and the students learn the results the next day or in the next few days. Students do not have immediate feedback. They have lost the most important benefit of testing: correcting their mistakes effectively. In real-time assessment the students react and correct their mistakes immediately. Here is how it works: 1) Students are trained to sit in testing position. Heads bent over desk. No movement of the head or body is permitted. Hand is cupped around the answer so no one can see except the teacher and his/her assistants. 2) Teacher asks students to write a six digit number and circle the number in the 10 thousands place. 3) Teacher now circulates and corrects. If the answer is correct, she indicates correct on the students paper. If it is incorrect, she puts a line through the answer and the student tries again. 4) As the teacher finds students with correct answers, she gives two or three of them correcting markers and tells them which row of students
