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In a simple sense, the affective domain is the emotional impression made upon you by content, interactions or strategies in the classroom (Popham, 2009). It is what students feel about school learning and the content they learn (Hall, 2011). It is lovely to have beautiful lessons, sharp resources and great teaching ability but if students are not emotionally invested the learning will be flat. Affective domain is closely related to motivation and therefore is a vital part in learning (Hall 2011). Teachers need to be cognizant of how students feel about content in order to teach it in the most efficient way. Making content relevant is important to increase student curiosity and involvement. The literature we read is pretty uniform in its input on affective assessment, saying it is underused but it is a mistake to do so. The authors see it as a vital tool to gauge student’s feelings and background knowledge on a topic (Demetriou & Wilson, 2009) (Hall 2011). Data from affec

Tough to learn, tough to teach… Amazingly it is nearly half my lifetime since I finished my science degree. I did not have much trouble with the Chemistry in High School but I remember college Chemistry being a difficult time for me. This did carry through to the in depth Biochemistry. Also, as I freely admit to the students, I have good mental arithmetic but there are areas of Math I left behind me as soon as I could. To this day I use my process for powers and exponents. I am not sure why the biochemistry was an issue for me. The diagrams and flowcharts of processes should have been up my alley but I struggled to make them stick in my mind. The large classes and distant professors made help quite difficult but I did work with groups of friends in order to make progress. With the Mathematics, there were areas in which I worked well, but others I wanted to just get through. This continued in college when on a youthful whim I chose the honors Mathematics track. I needed tutorin

  Assessments for me, Assessments by me… A little bit of background again. You will not see selected response tests in Ireland to anything like the degree you do in the US. The state exams tend to have a section which consisting of short constructed response and then sections with larger constructed response based around individual units of content. Also you should be aware I am a Scientist and I respond better to objective types of testing. I was never happy to have an essay to write. I wanted there to be a correct or incorrect answer where I did not have to get to creative or personal about things. I knew going into a science exam that with my good knowledge of facts, understanding of the content and the competence with the required skills I was going to score well. I was always very comfortable using labelled diagrams and flow charts enjoyed questions which allowed me to answer as such, as I used methods such as these in my own study. When I was asked t