You know.

You know the following 5 statements are true:

1. Writing essays helps your students improve their writing.
   
2. Singing in concerts helps your students improve their singing.
   
3. Giving presentations helps your students improve their presentation skills.
   
4. Playing basketball games helps your students improve their basketball skills.
   
5. Performing in plays helps your students improve their acting.

Why am I telling you this? Here’s why:

• Essays, concerts, presentations, games, and plays help your students improve.
  
• Essays, concerts, presentations, games, and plays are forms of assessment.
  
• Assessment helps your students improve.

Connection: Assessment helps your students improve their use of a biblical perspective. That’s right. Your students will improve their use of a biblical perspective as they complete rigorous assessments that require them to connect course content, their lives, and a biblical perspective.

Ask yourself, “If my students completed an assessment in each unit like those listed below, how would that affect their proficiency?”

• Science 2: Write a 1–2 paragraph report about a dinosaur of your choice. Include where the dinosaur lived, when it lived, what it ate, what it looked like, its size, how it got its name, who found it, and any other interesting facts you found. Give three examples of how your dinosaur shows God’s creativity and power.
  
• Math 6: Construct a model of the solar system that accurately represents planet size and planet distance from the sun. Next, write a paragraph in response to the following question: What does math have to with God’s world? In your paragraph, make three connections between the biblical truths we studied in class and the model you made. Include quotations from two Bible passages.
  
• English 10: Write a 1000-word essay to answer the following two questions: Who are you? How does knowing who you are help you love your neighbor and/or heal what’s wrong in the world? In your answer use first-person, use six quotations (three from the literature studied in class and three from the Bible) and cite a minimum of seven sources (including works of literature, the Bible, and a Bible dictionary).

Now you know. Assessment helps your students improve their use of a biblical perspective of course content. Use assessment to help your students. Today.