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25 confidence check questions for students
Confidence is not the same as mastery, but it is useful information when combined with a knowledge check. Ask before independent work, after a worked example or at the end of a lesson.
Ideas to try
How confident are you with today’s topic?
How ready are you to try this alone?
Could you explain the idea to a partner?
How sure are you about your method?
How comfortable are you choosing the first step?
Do you need another worked example?
How confident are you checking your own answer?
How ready are you for a harder example?
How confident are you using the key vocabulary?
How prepared do you feel for a short quiz?
Could you spot a common mistake?
How confident are you applying this in a new context?
How much support would you need?
Which part feels least secure?
How clear is the success criterion?
How confident are you comparing two approaches?
Could you start the homework without help?
How ready are you to teach the idea to someone else?
How confident are you interpreting the question?
How certain are you about why the answer is correct?
How ready are you to move on?
Do you need more explanation or more practice?
How confident are you recalling this tomorrow?
How ready are you for independent practice?
How confident are you overall: completely / mostly / partly / I need help?
Turn one prompt into a 60-second class check
Choose the prompt that best matches your next instructional decision, reduce it to two to four clear answer choices, and run it as a short anonymous class poll.
TRY 60SEC CLASSROOM