Evaluation Plan

 

The students will be evaluated in many ways during the unit, starting out with participation of each student, and ending with turning in the unit project at the end.  The best way to assure student learning (and understanding) is to have them turn in artifacts proving they understand, such as the homework assigned, quizzes taken, and unit project turned in.  The student will be evaluated, not only on correctly solving the driving question, but also that they used the concepts taught to them throughout the unit.

 

 

 

Throughout the course of the four week unit, the students will have weekly quizzes (three total) to assure that they are learning the concepts taught to provide a medium between formative and summative assessment of the students.  Since they are many opportunities to show me how much they do/do not understand, I will be able to determine whether or not to move onto the next topic, since it is useless to proceed if the students don’t understand previous topics taught.  Since the unit is stretched out over a period of four weeks, there is plenty of time to back up and re-teach concepts that the students had trouble with.  Homework is assigned to reinforce the understanding once the lesson is over, also for a type of formative assessment.  A unit project is due at the end of the four week unit, in which students will work in groups to solve the driving question to provide the teacher with summative assessment.  The students will first design a grading rubric to which I will grade them after the unit project is submitted.  This way, the students will feel that their work is being graded fairly and not just things that I, as a teacher, feel like taking points off for.