Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects: Cell-to-Cell


	Designing Effective Projects: Cell-to-Cell Assessment Plan

Assessment Plan

Assessment Timeline

Before project work begins

Students work on projects and
complete tasks

After project work is completed

Questioning
Cell-to-Cell Syllabus Handout

Summarization
Diagrams

Cells Alive! Online Quiz
Questioning

Quiz
Questioning

Assignments Checklist
Assignment #1 Organelles Rubric
Peer Assessment

Presentation Scoring Guide
Newsletter Scoring Guide

Questioning is used at the beginning of the unit to assess prior knowledge as well as throughout the unit to promote discussion and encourage higher-order thinking skills. The syllabus provides guidelines for students as they develop their project and allows students to self-monitor their progress throughout the project. Understanding of content can be monitored with the papers summarizing distinctions between plant and animal cells, and prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells as well as labeled diagrams of cells. Students conduct self-assessments of their understanding of cell structure and function through the CELLS alive! Online Quiz*. A teacher-generated quiz assesses students on all content addressed to date. Students monitor their individual work with the assignments checklist and the rubric. The same rubric is used to assess the students’ slideshow presentations. The group presentation scoring guide is used to peer-assess the presentations as well as for final assessment at the end of the project. After project work is complete, the newsletter scoring guide is used to assess student products.

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