Using a K-W-L chart will help, you the teacher understand the prior knowledge of your students. It will also help assess what they have learned when you review the K-W-L chart at the end of the project and fill in the “Learning” portion.
It is important to establish anchors for a project because it helps gage where the student is starting in their project based on their prior knowledge. It also helps keep track of what learning goals they are meeting as they progress through their projects.
Interviewing the students about what they had learned during the project is one way to assess their knowledge. Videotaping them will allow the student to review their own assessment. Something else is having the students share their work with peers for constructive feedback.
Ask students to create something that summarizes or synthesizes what they have learned from their project. This could be something that is formally written, a podcast, something interactive or even a poem.
Utilize experts to help critique students projects and give honest feedback on their success.
Encourage students to submit their projects for a competition or publication. Sometimes students will get the feedback from judges about their projects or will even have to defend their projects.
For our project I would ask a Registered Dietician or a Gardner to come and critique our students classroom project. This would allow them to hear of some new ideas that they may have not thought of before and will assess their knowledge of the content they have been obtaining throughout their project. The students will interview each other on tape as a form of assessment and will have the opportunity to play back their interviews.
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