ABSTRACT
This chapter examines an effective and easy-to-use method of assessment: exit questions. The chapter begins with a description of exit questions and then move to a discussion of how they are important to English instruction. An exit question—also sometimes called an exit slip—is an activity done at the end of class period in which students answer a question or respond to a prompt related to the main focus of the day's lesson. Exit questions should ask students to reflect on the lesson's topic and synthesize the information they've learned. The chapter explores three key benefits that come from the use of exit questions: exit questions facilitate reflective thinking, they give teachers daily assessment information, and they allow students to learn from one another. It examines two recommendations that can make one's implementation of exit questions as effective as possible: align exit questions with key instructional goals and consider the many ways exit questions can inform instruction.
