In this lesson we explore the question:

How will I know my students have learned the skills and developed the understanding this project intended?

You have been in a position to design your assessment tools as soon as you wrote your project learning goals in Lesson 2. However, project design is cyclic in nature and you are always going back to earlier ideas and improving on them as the whole project becomes clearer in your mind. You will definitely want to assess the learners’ grasp of the curriculum objectives associated with this project. If you have designed your project well you will be able to see evidence of that understanding from the products of their work.

You have just completed writing the Process section of your WebQuest and this means you now have a much clearer idea about what kind of skills the learners will be using and what new skills they will be developing. The new skills provide an opportunity to design formative assessment tools so the learners can have clear feedback on how their skills development is progressing.

Learning Objectives:

Once you successfully complete the lesson you will be able to:

• Plan a curriculum-aligned assessment strategy for a project;
• Select appropriate digital resources which are useful for teachers preparing and learners working on projects.