Futuring: Assessing Student Work

There are two ways to think of how to assess these two projects – teacher perspective – was this project effective and student perspective – did I do a good job on this project.

To assess either Fox Becomes a Better Person or School Train from a teacher perspective, I would want to know how effective were the projects in helping the students understand the teaching objectives. Here are a few questions that I would ask:

• What was the outcome that was desired?
• What learning took place?
• Who was doing the learning?

If I am thinking of ways to assess the project for a student, some of the questions I would ask would be:

• Did they accomplish the objective?
• How complete was the project?
• What was the quality of the project?

A class-created rubric would help to assess the student work.