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Showing Evidence Tool: Turning Points in History
Assessment Plan
Assessment Plan

Assessment Timeline
timeline

Before project work begins

Students work on projects and
complete tasks

After project work is completed

timeline
  • Questioning

 
  • Argumentation Rubric
  • Peer Review Checklist
  • Comments in Showing Evidence Tool
  • Questioning
  • Evaluative Checklist
  • Self Reflection
  • Argumentation Rubric
  • Mock Trial Rubric

Questioning is used throughout the unit to assess prior knowledge as well as prompt student thinking. Student thinking is also assessed through the quality and complexity of claims, evidence, ratings, and peer-to-peer comments within Showing Evidence. Use the argumentation rubric to assess student performance. This assessment can be completed at the end of the Showing Evidence Tool phase and at the end of the multimedia presentation. The peer review checklist offers students an opportunity to provide feedback on one another’s work as well as self-assess their own understanding. Assess student collaboration, research, and higher-order thinking with the evaluative checklist. The checklist can be used during or after all collaborative work sessions.

During the mock trial phase of the unit, assess students as they prepare evidence, construct characters to use as primary source “expert witnesses,” deliver arguments, deliver rebuttals, and conduct cross-examinations. Offer objections as well as make evaluative judgments to decide the final outcome of the trial. The students conduct self reflections and critiques of their performances during the trial.

Use a mock trial rubric to assess the quality of the learning outcomes of the mock trial. This is the summative assessment to be completed at the end of the unit.

Students keep reflections on their experiences and critiques of their performance in a journal. Student journals can be an ongoing assignment for the length of the unit or can be implemented only during the mock trial.

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