One helpful tool for determining students' prior knowledge is the use of a K-W-L chart. A K-W-L chart gives the students an opportunity to describe what they already know, what they want to know, and what they learned. Almost always, not all of the students will be starting with the same knowledge level. This is also true for what they may learn by completing the project. Establishing anchors in a project is very important because you are able to gain a sense of where students are starting and how far they are going as they work to meet learning goals.
There are several ways of grading your students in a way that can really gauge what they have learning. Multiple choice tests are not one of these options. Some of the ways to assess students include asking students what they learned, having students create something new, model real-world assessment, or entering a contest or submitting their work for publication. By have students create something new at the end of the project it requires them to go back and recap what they have learned. This also helps you find out if the student can take what they have learned and apply it in a new context.
These concepts are all very important in creating our group project. I think the best method of grading the students working on our project is by having them model real-world assessment. They will be completing all the tasks it requires to create a living museum, and some of them will even be transforming themselves in to characters other than themselves.
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