Handout (optional): Informal Assessment-questions to ask your learner

Questions to ask your learner *

The following are questions that you can use after a lesson to gauge how your learner feels about the session and the tutoring process.

1. What did you learn today?
   
   
2. What is the most useful thing you have learned today?
   
   
3. What was the most difficult thing that you did today?
   
   
4. Were you comfortable with the pace of today's lesson?
   
   
5. How do you feel about the work that you are doing?
   
   
6. What do you want to do next lesson?
   
   
7. What work have you enjoyed the most over the last few lessons?
   
   
8. How have you used what you have learned during the sessions in your everyday life?
   
   
9. Does the work that you are doing still fit with your plans for the future?
   
   
10. Would you like to change your short-term or long-term goals?
    
    
11. Is there anything related to your job that would be useful for us to work on during the tutoring sessions?
    
    
12. Are you doing homework? How much homework do you do each week? Do you want more homework?
    
    
13. Tell me about a learning strategy that works well for you.

* Kingston Literacy, Assessment Kit: Ongoing Assessment Tracking Model for Volunteer Tutoring Program. Kingston, Ontario: Kingston Literacy, 1998. Used with permission.