In preparing for our final, I felt as though my classes were using the whiteboards for group activities more than the usual amount. I don't like class to consist of the same activities day after day so I wanted to come up with at least a twist for the review.
Students were still put into groups with each student having a worksheet with all of the questions I would be asking (all informal commands, a mix of affirmative and negative, normal verbs all the way to completely irregular). I would call out a number and the students on a team would work together to write down an answer. However, before they held up the boards for me to check, they would also have to place a bet of 0, 1, or 2 points. They would then gain or lose that many points based on if their answer was correct or incorrect. I started with some of the easier questions to try to give teams a buffer away from a negative score (each team started with five points) which worked overall--only one team went below zero in both of my classes. If teams missed a question, I gave feedback on the answer. Also, all students wrote down the correct verb form before we moved on to the next question.
I liked this method of scoring because it helped teams to think about how sure they were in their answer rather than just hoping they were right. It also gave students a way to minimize the damage so to speak if they were unsure of a response.
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