Assessment+Examples

These documents outline "the pitch" that we did as an activity. At our school, we've found it a great way to get the kids to share the highlights of their research (without having them present a ten-minute presentation).

FIRST Lego League has great rubrics for scoring the Research Project portion of their competition.

An example of a summative assessment for student reflection. I give this reflection the students BEFORE the staging day, so that their reflection is not just about the staging.

There is no single summative assessment that cannot be used as a formative. Break your summative assessment down into little chunks that can be evaluated a long the way. Use kid-friendly terms. Can use reflection journals for the kids. Use popsicle sticks to read the journals, so that you are not reading all the journals at once. Could use video journals as a way to record reflections. Use a skill checklist to introduce the mentors to their groups, and to make the mentors aware of the students' skills. Use IB language to "evaluate" the student work. Have an Exhibition scope and sequence for the school- give teachers of all grades an understanding of the Exhibition.
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