Preservice mathematics teachers' views about planning the assessment

The study attempted to investigate senior preservice middle school mathematics teachers' purposes in preparing the assessment, and their views and suggestions about the assessment part of a lesson plan through employing basic qualitative method. First, the "Incomplete and Improper Lesson Plan Task" prepared by the researchers was administered to the participants (N=27). Then, one-to-one interviews were conducted (N=11). Findings of the study indicated that preservice teachers underlined similar purposes in preparing the assessment part of the lesson plan, all of which related to the teacher actions. They mainly emphasized the kind of feedback gathered by the teachers rather than the students. They also considered the assessment part in the task weak since there were insufficient number and diversity of the questions.