This week was a challenging one! Our goal for this section of the PBL lesson was to create the assessment pieces and we needed to have two formative assessments and one summative assessment.
I decided that, while we only needed to have one rubric, the most efficient way to create my assessments would be to start with a rubric for each one. I already knew that I was going to have the students create a blog to share their research on digital citizenship & online safety, that the students were going to create, distribute and analyze a survey, and that the culminating project was going to be a presentation of a school-wide improvement plan to the student body and administration. So, the next step was to start creating rubrics!
For the presentation rubric, I used a modified rubric from the BIE website, which helped speed things along nicely. However, for the blog and survey assignments, I had to start from scratch, and that took some time.
Once those were completed, I decided it would be best to also have a student checklist for each assignment, that way the students would have something easier to work through as they were completing each task. So, I made those to be used in conjunction with the rubrics and everything can be found on my assessment page.
And now that everything is finished assessments wise, I feel a whole lot better about the project as a whole. It definitely makes sense to create the assessments first, and build everything else around that. It makes the rest of the project come together much easier once you know the specific standards and criteria that the students will be graded on. Now I feel like I just have to fill in the missing pieces and the major legwork (creating the assessments) has already been completed! And now it's time to enjoy some fireworks! Happy fourth of July!
I decided that, while we only needed to have one rubric, the most efficient way to create my assessments would be to start with a rubric for each one. I already knew that I was going to have the students create a blog to share their research on digital citizenship & online safety, that the students were going to create, distribute and analyze a survey, and that the culminating project was going to be a presentation of a school-wide improvement plan to the student body and administration. So, the next step was to start creating rubrics!
For the presentation rubric, I used a modified rubric from the BIE website, which helped speed things along nicely. However, for the blog and survey assignments, I had to start from scratch, and that took some time.
Once those were completed, I decided it would be best to also have a student checklist for each assignment, that way the students would have something easier to work through as they were completing each task. So, I made those to be used in conjunction with the rubrics and everything can be found on my assessment page.
And now that everything is finished assessments wise, I feel a whole lot better about the project as a whole. It definitely makes sense to create the assessments first, and build everything else around that. It makes the rest of the project come together much easier once you know the specific standards and criteria that the students will be graded on. Now I feel like I just have to fill in the missing pieces and the major legwork (creating the assessments) has already been completed! And now it's time to enjoy some fireworks! Happy fourth of July!