Assessing Learner Projects - Activity 2

Creating Learner Assessments

90 minutes

Effective embedded and ongoing assessment requires careful planning and systematic implementation. Mapping out which assessments will be needed and where the assessments will be most beneficial in the learning cycle helps you plan how to best monitor your learners’ needs and progress.

The assessment plans you reviewed in the preceding activity should have helped you form practical ideas for how you can implement a range of assessment practices in your classroom. Now, you refine your assessment plan and create an assessment for your learner sample.

• Step 1: Focusing on My Assessment Plan
  
  
• Step 2: Planning the Assessment for My Learner Sample
  
  
• Step 3: Creating an Assessment for My Learner Sample
  
  

Step 1: Focusing on My Assessment Plan

1. Review your draft assessment timeline in your Project Plan.
   
   
2. Use the following Assessment Table to determine and describe which types of assessments you will use throughout your project.
   
   
3. Refer to your downloaded copy of the Assessment Plan with highlights and notes you completed in the last activity.
   
   Note: Consider modifying assessment descriptions you found in the Assessment Plans to suit your needs. This table is also available in Module 5, Activity 2, Step 1: Creating Learner Assessments of Your Notebook.

Assessment Summary

1. Review the Assessment Plan Checklist to ensure you incorporated all of the assessment criteria outlined on the checklist.
   
   
2. Open your Project Plan and add new assessments you are considering to the Assessment Timeline section of your Project Plan. You may need to refer back to your draft Assessment Timeline from Module 2.
   
   
3. Write a first draft of your Assessment Summary using the information from your Assessment Planning Table and Assessment Timeline. You can choose to write your Assessment Summary in a similar table format or in paragraph form.

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