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Meeting Assessment Standards in a Learner-Centred Classroom
As you thought about how to incorporate projects into your project, you identified assessment standards and Curriculum-Framing Questions to help frame your Project Plan. You may have concerns about how you can effectively meet assessment standards in a project based, learner-centred classroom where learners construct much of their own knowledge rather than receive information and teaching only from the teacher. When moving to a learner-centred classroom, learners still need to do well on tests and truly meet the learning outcomes and assessment standards. Other practical concerns that deal with accountability and time constraints must also be answered.
During this activity, you discuss your concerns and possible solutions for meeting assessment standards in a learner-centred classroom, as well as experience the use and creation of a wiki. A wiki is a "type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change some available content... This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring." (Wikipedia, 2006)
 Break into three groups. Note the question assigned to your group by your facilitator:
- How do I ensure that learners meet assessment standards—and meet enough of them to make the effort worthwhile—in open-ended activities and projects?
- If learners are in charge of their own learning, how will we be sure they learn what is important?
- How do I ensure accountability when learners are working in groups?
- Obtain the wiki website address (URL) for this discussion from your facilitator. Choose one person in the group to create the following elements:
- Title for your page
- Question you are discussing
- 2-column, 8-row table with "Concerns" in the left column and "Solutions" in the right column
- Discuss and have a recorder enter the group’s concerns and possible solutions in the table.
 Note: When working with Web 2.0 resources, you may want to type your ideas in an offline word processing document and then copy and paste it into the online environment when you are finished—especially if your Internet connection is not stable.
 Save the wiki page when the discussion is finished.
- Review the other groups' pages and add to their lists of solutions.
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