A method of understanding prior-knowledge of students that could be used is a KWL chart where students fill in what they already know about the topic. This is a good way of understanding the prior knowledge of the whole class because if you were to just ask as them as a big group and one or two students answered, how do you know what every other student knows? Using a KWL graphic organizer is a good way to get feedback from each student.
Establishing anchors is an extremely important part of assessing student progress in a project. From the prior-knowledge activation activity, you will see that all students are starting from different levels of familiarity of the subject. Therefore, it is important to establish these anchors so you can assess how far the student has progressed to their own personal learning goals.
There are many different ways to assess the learning of students during a particular project. Online grade books that have many different categories of assessment like work ethic and critical thinking are much more beneficial than giving a student one grade with no explanation. Another way is to ask students what they learned in an interview after the project. Asking the students to create something knew to summarize what they have learned, apply to professionals, and submitting their work in contest are also ways to assess what students have learned.
Assessment is a huge part of any project, and this chapter discusses different ways to monitor student learning. How much have they really learned? This relates to our project because we are going to need to assess the students on the activities we have come up with.
I like what you had to say about anchors, because what you said is very true. Not all students are starting at the same level. So it is very important to establish these anchors.
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