iEARN
6. Assess


Why is Assessment Important?
What is Authentic Assessment?
How to Assess Project -Based Learning
What is a Rubric?
What about Standards, Goals, Objectives and Assessment?
  Examples from iEARN teachers
Examples of rubrics developed for an iEARN project
iEARN Online Professional Development





I have used all kinds of assessment tools throughout my teaching career. Since I'm a science teacher, and we teach courses with a lot of lab time and student projects, I am used to developing assessments that involve student group work, and long-term projects. In project-based learning, the focus of the assessment is on process and products, demonstrations of understanding, and tangible accomplishments over time…It takes a lot of teacher time up front, BEFORE students even begin working, but it makes the process work smoothly and it embeds the assessment into the daily work of the students. For the research project that my students were working on, with a final product of a Power Point report accompanied by an oral report, I developed a detailed rubric that students received before they even began their research. I also monitored their daily progress, so they have a component of their personal on-task time that contributes to their final grade. Thus, their individual grade is a blend of the final product, their individual contribution to the oral report, and their daily grades from their observed time on task.

- Kathleen Griffin, United States

Some examples from iEARN teachers

Virtues Project web link

This project was able to address the following Massachusetts state standards and frameworks to:

  • Examine the causes and consequences of the ethnic and religious conflict in many parts of the world
  • Learn about recent events and trends that have shaped modern day America and the world.

It covered the following themes:

  • The evolution of the concepts of personal freedom, individual responsibility, and respect for human dignity.
  • The influence of economic, political, religious, and cultural ideas as human societies move beyond regional, national, or geographic boundaries.
  • The effects of geography on the history of civilizations and nations.
  • The development of scientific reasoning, technology, and formal education over time and their effects on people’s health, standards of living, economic growth, government, religious beliefs, communal life, and the environment.

Water Habitat Project assessed using the Teaching for Understanding Framework web link on Harvard site and featured on videos on NCREL web link site.

WRITE to Care Framework: Writing and Reading Integrating Technology into Education to Make A Difference in Our World. By Kristi Rennebohm Franz, Sunnyside Elementary School, USA. WRITE to Care Framework -Literacy Educational Standards.

Solar Cooker Project

YouthCaN web linkConferences in NYC and the Middle East is a project in which students plan, implement , and coordinate an annual event in April, which brings together youth of the world to share how they are using technology in environmental projects.

There are several magazines edited and published by students that all possess an authentic global audience:

A Vision web link, a literary magazine, uses art and the medium of creative writing to demonstrate that despite linguistic, cultural, ethnic and racial differences, teenagers around the world share the same hopes, fears, interests and concerns.


Some projects create a product to share or sell, including Comfort Quilts, created in response to the caring needs of children receiving medical hospital or clinic care and experiencing the devastating effects of natural disasters and in transition, crisis or displacement from their homes


Dolls for Computers aims to teach and encourage school aged children to pursue a higher standard of living through creative endeavors, doing so specifically by creating dolls which in turn are sold and the profits reinvested in their school.
Some projects culminate in student created web pages, including The Bullying Project web link is an international project to help others around the world with cope with being bullied and teased.

 

 

 

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