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About This Book
Group work is a growing trend in schools, as educators seek more complex, more authentic assessment tasks and assign projects and presentations for students to work on together.
The Common Core State Standards call for increased student collaboration in various subject areas, and collaboration is considered one of the 21st century skills that students need to master in order to succeed in school and beyond.
Many teachers, though, are uncomfortable giving group grades, which may or may not actually reflect an individual student’s learning. How else to proceed?
Assessment expert Susan M. Brookhart offers practical advice, strategies, and examples to help teachers understand the following:
* What the differences are between group projects and cooperative learning.
* How to assess and report on (but not grade) learning skills and group interaction skills.
* How to assess and grade individual achievement of learning goals after group projects.
* Why having students work together is a good thing—but group grades are not.
Topics : Assessment
Table Of Content
Does Group Work Have to Mean Group Grades?
What’s Wrong with Group Grades?
Grading Cooperative Learning Versus Group Work
How Can I Assess Learning and Process Skills?
How Can I Assess and Grade Individual Students’ Achievement?
How Can I Adapt Group Projects to Enable Individual Grading?
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About the Author
About the Authors
Susan M. Brookhart:
Susan M. Brookhart, PhD, is an independent educational consultant based in Helena, Montana, and is Coordinator of Assessment and Evaluation for the School of Education at Duquesne University. She is the author or coauthor of
several books, including ASCD’s How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students, How to Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Your Classroom, Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom, and Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. She may be reached at [email protected].
ISBN: 9786038147528
Author: Brookhart, Susan
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2016
Size: 17*24cm
Pages number: 44
