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Creating an Assessment to Gauge Learner Needs
During this activity, you create an assessment for one of the five purposes of
assessment—gauging learner needs. The assessment should help you assess learners' prior knowledge, interests, areas of weakness, or misconceptions about the content in your project. As part of this assessment, you may want to incorporate the Focus Question to help you gauge learners’ understanding of the topic. When you implement the assessment in your classroom, you can gather information on learners’ knowledge and needs to further refine your project. For instance, you can adjust your objectives, provide
additional teaching before proceeding, or differentiate to accommodate learner needs.
Step 1: Tapping into Prior Knowledge
During this step, browse some ideas to help you plan your assessment for gauging
learner needs:
- Review your notes about the strategies you are considering for gauging learner readiness.
- Explore the sample assessments to gauge learner needs.
If desired, note any ideas you might want to use in your assessment.
Optional Resources:
- Go to the Intel® Designing Effective Projects resource for information on
tapping prior knowledge.
- Click Instructional Strategies.
- Click Prior Knowledge.
- Review the information and examples about ways to assess and tap into learners' prior knowledge.
- Go to the Intel® Designing Effective Projects resource for information on Curriculum-Framing Questions
- Click Project Design.
- Click Curriculum-Framing Questions.
- Click Effective Questioning Practices.
- Review ways to use and introduce Curriculum-Framing Questions with your learners.
If you would like, return to the Assessing Projects resource to review the Gauging Learner Needs section in more detail:
- Open Intel® Assessing Projects.
- Click Assessment Strategies.
- Click Strategies for Gauging Learner Needs.
- Note ideas for gauging learner needs that you can use in your presentation.
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