Using the PER Report with Your Student: Apply Accountability

The PER Report compliments the standard achievement test report by pinpointing the items missed by the student. To make the best use of the information this report provides, I’ve suggested parents use a three-step approach when reviewing the results with their children. The first two steps are:

• Dignify their response by identifying, but not judging their incorrect answer.
• Prompt and support them toward the correct answer.

The third step is to hold your children accountable. The byproduct of “true” learning is remembering what has been taught or studied. If your children don’t see that remembering is important, that an “oh well” or “whatever” attitude is OK, your teaching efforts will produce minimum results. Communicating to them that they are accountable for the content you’ve presented is a crucial final step in the process.

This “accountability message” can be conveyed with three different tones: soft, medium, and firm. I’ve written about these “three tones” here.

Be sure to hold your children accountable.

Thanks for reading!
Curt Bumcrot, MRE

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