{"id":268420,"date":"2025-01-09T03:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T03:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/simple-ways-to-check-for-understanding\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:47","slug":"simple-ways-to-check-for-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/simple-ways-to-check-for-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Ways To Check For Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p>            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re using formative assessment for data to personalize learning within a unit, or more summative data to refine a curriculum map, the ability to quickly and easily check for understanding is a critical part of what you do. (Which was the idea behind <a title=\"10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds Or Less\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/pedagogy\/simple-assessments-you-can-perform-in-90-seconds\/\"><strong>10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds Or Less<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The following infographic\u00a0Mia MacMeekin\u00a0offers up 27 additional ways to check for understanding. Some aren\u2019t necessarily quick\u2013\u201cTest what you learned in a new situation\u201d\u2013but there are a dozen or more other ideas that are worth adding to your teacher toolbox, many of which aren\u2019t content-related, but rather cognitively related (Locate 3 people who agree with your point of view.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/did-they-learn-anything.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"2048\" alt=\"Did they learn anything?\" class=\"wp-image-13652 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/did-they-learn-anything.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/did-they-learn-anything.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/did-they-learn-anything-88x300.jpg 88w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/did-they-learn-anything.jpg\" alt=\"Did they learn anything?\" class=\"wp-image-13652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/did-they-learn-anything.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/did-they-learn-anything-88x300.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Image attribution flickr user deepcwind and miamacmeekin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- HFCM by 99 Robots - Snippet # 15: Taboola Footer Feed --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/end HFCM by 99 Robots --><br \/>\n<!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_row abfd_et_pb_row abfd-container-divi\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column\">\n<div class=\"abfd-container\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/author\/teachthought-staff\/\" class=\"abfd-photograph-link\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"abfd-details\">\n<div class=\"abfd-biography\">\n<p>TeachThought\u2019s mission is to promote critical thinking and innovation education.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/pedagogy\/27-simple-ways-check-understanding\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Whether you\u2019re using formative assessment for data to personalize learning within a unit, or more summative data to refine a curriculum map, the ability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}