Students not only ask this about CATS they ask this about classroom work. My students have even requested a study guide to know exactly what will be on the test. I remember being told at one epoint of my study that we need to let them know exactly what will be on an assessment and in what format. As a new tacher, I found this disturbing but I asked around in my school and found that some of the teachers did give students a review of the test to look over in the same format and similar questions to do. I still havn’t been able to do this. I feel that they need to learn all the material, not only what will be on the test. I have also heard students say “You didn’t go over this.”
Just the other day when one of them said that very statment,
I thought about Learner VS Student and decided to share with them. I told them that in my class we had discussed learners and students and that thinking like learner was much better than thinking like a student.

I said, “It is time you started thinking about being more self motivated to learn for the knowlege and less waiting to see what someone wants to pour into you for the test or the grade. When you get to college, you will have to decide to look be thnk like a learner on a daily basis. No one is going to tell you exactly what is on the test. I am doing you a disservice not pushing you to become an active learner/ thinker. We are all learning new things on a daily basis in life.”

Most of these students are seniors and I saw that some of them began to think about what I was saying.

Some of them have said that they tend to remember more of the things we study by doing activities than by what they read.