Assessment Timeline

Before project work begins

Students work on projects and complete tasks

After project work is completed

Gauging Student Needs Questioning K-W-L Chart Questioning

Research Process Rubric Brochure Checklist and Rubric

K-W-L Chart Learning Logs Research Process Rubric

Brochure Checklist and Rubric Presentation Rubric

Presentation Rubric Questioning

Reflection  K-W-L Chart

Use questioning to gauge student needs and access their prior knowledge. Students create a Know-Wonder-Learn (K-W-L) chart to help them track their learning related to trade. The K-W-L chart is revisited in the middle and at the end of the unit to ensure that students’ questions were answered. Questioning throughout the unit addresses the Curriculum-Framing Questions and helps students apply higher-order thinking skills to better understand trade issues. The research process rubric helps students and the teacher monitor their data collection and analysis as well as research skills that students apply when developing the brochure. As students create the brochures, they use the brochure checklist and rubric to track their progress, to ensure that all elements of the brochure are included, and to produce a high-quality product. The brochure checklist and rubric are also used for teacher assessment of the brochure.

Periodic checks of the learning logs help teachers gauge students’ understanding of new concepts and areas of difficulty in order to adapt teaching methodologies. Students use the presentation checklist and rubric to help them plan their presentations, to self-assess during practice sessions and at the end of the presentation, and for the teacher to assess students. The presentation is a culminating authentic assessment of students work throughout the unit. Both the brochure and presentation rubrics include group assessment as well as individual assessment. The unit culminates with the students organizing all of their work from the unit into trade scrapbooks to demonstrate their new knowledge and skills and to reflect on their learning throughout the unit. Students respond to reflection questions to help them become more aware of their learning.


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