Exit+Slip

Type
ENGAGE

Description
Any form of short question posed to students at or near the end of the class. These probes can be written on the board, posted to a wiki, or simply spoken to the class. Generally, these are questions that are meant to be answered on the spot, in class, before students are "allowed" to leave.

Purpose
To reveal the quality of understanding at the close of a class meeting. To provide students with an opportunity to take a quick, //metacognitive snapshot// of their own learning.

Range
Grades 1-12

Fruitility
Students appreciate the shortness and quickness of this type of assessment. It isn't homework and it's more of an end-of-lesson sprint than a mid-lesson run. It's nature and folksy name help create an amiable instructional character and belie its real potential to assess students' understanding and misconceptions.

Features
**Exit Slips** can be prepared ahead of time as part of the anticipated arc of instruction or they can be created on the spot if that anticipated arc takes an unexpected turn. This flexibility is especially useful when student work and conversations raise questions whose asking suddenly seems very useful; an **exit slip** can be quickly made that captures those freshly stirred thoughts and presented to students near the end of class. An **exit slip** can also assess more rigorous thinking, much like a constructed-response quiz can assess an applied skill, except that it is much shorter and seemingly more casual—because it's an //**Exit Slip**// and not a //Quiz//!