Week 3, Assignment #2

A form of assessment that can be used to measure students’ learning outcomes are rubrics. The teacher can create a rubric including descriptions and point levels for the different aspects of the project being addressed like quality and credibility of the information, the presentation of the project, and communication and collaboration for example. The students use this rubric to guide them on the expectations of the teacher for the project. Rubrics are a great way to formally assess students’ learning outcomes. If a teacher wants do to an informal assessment they can openly ask students to talk about/explain/describe their project or the teacher can float around the classroom watching students working on their projects.

A very basic way of addressing the common core learning standards when there are students of various grade levels is project group placement. This means that when the teacher assigns the project to the class, he/she should not have the students randomly grouped; weaker students should be grouped with stronger students to balance out the classroom which solves the problem of students at different reading level. Each group will collaborate and work together; the stronger students will help the weaker ones to create their projects.