Reading Reflection #9

Kim Poe

Reading Reflection #9:

Assessing students' prior knowledge is important in order to measure the distance they travel during a project. One way to assess students' prior knowledge is through a “KWL” activity. This is where they can write what they already know, what they want to know, and at the end of the project write what they have learned. KWL activities are very valuable for assessing students' prior knowledge and measuring how much they have learned throughout the project.

Establishing anchors is another important part of assessing students learning through a project. This gives you a sense of where students are starting and how far they are going as they work to meet their learning goals. It gives you a starting point from which you can measure how far a student has come by the end of the project.

There are many different ways to assess students learning that are more effective than traditional test. One idea from this chapter is to have the students create something new. It mentioned a class where the teacher had the students create a comic based on the book they had read to assess their learning. This is a much more valuable way of assessing the students learning as compared to a multiple choice test that just tells you if the students read the book. Another idea is to show the students a film based on the book and have them compare how the film strays from the book, how they are similar and how theya re different.

Assessment is a very important part of any project. It is essential to be able to measure what your students have learned or what skills they have gained from a project. This chapter gave me some very good ideas for assessing my students' learning after completing a project, or assessing their prior knowledge when starting a project.