Trying Out

So as a result of the change of the proficiencies, I decided not to use the quiz I had written (no longer relavent), and use the quiz a different teacher had written. I had planned for 15-20 minutes for the quiz depending on how quickly we got through other material. After talking with the teacher who wrote the quiz, he said it needed almost 40 minutes. So with 15 minutes left in class I handed out the quiz. With one minute left in class I told everyone to put their pencils down and I was collecting the quiz, but that we would start the next class by finishing the quiz. As I was collecting one student asked me if I was worried about people cheating. Since they knew what was on the quiz, they could study that night. I replied that I am assuming they would not memorize all the numbers on the questions, so they would have to learn the whole concept. That is something I do not have a problem with. In fact I was hoping some would go home and relearn the parts they were struggling with. And for the most part everyone did well on the quiz.
The other thing I am trying out is having students write review questions. I told everyone which skills would be on the test for next week. The homework for the weekend is to write two potential test questions for each skill. I also said that this homework would be collected. I mentioned to some who asked that I would then type the questions out and hand them to the students as a review sheet for the test. Hopefully this will work. We will see on Tuesday.