Assessing+Group+Work

**How do you assess group work?**
All group members should not be given the same mark. Group members should be assessed individually for specific skills outline in a rubric.
 * **Task** || **Strategy** ||  || **Assessment** ||
 * **Monitoring Progress** ||  ||
 * Project Journal || Student’s personal record of frequently written reflective responses to group project progress, research, readings, discussions

Uses: Track progress provide written feedback, student’s reflection ||  || AfL AaL ||
 * Observation || Viewing and recording student’s behaviour. Can take place at anytime, in any setting.

Uses: Teacher can provide oral feedback and monitor progress ||  || AfL ||
 * Checklist || List of actions, skills, processes that the student/teacher checks off as he/she observes/performs them.

Uses: Teacher checklist used during work periods to gauge student’s progress. Student checklist can be used as a self-assessment tool to gauge student’s own learning, can be collect to track student’s progress. ||  || AfL AaL ||
 * Mini-Report || One group member will generate a report (oral or written) to the teacher on the group’s progress. Each group member will provide an individual report throughout the project.

Uses: Tracking group and individual’s progress ||  || AfL ||
 * **Final Assessment** ||  ||
 * Classroom Presentation || Requires to students to verbalize their knowledge, select and present samples of finished work and organize their thoughts in order to present a summary of learning about a topic.

Uses: Can incorporate other activities such as debates, jigsaw, reciprocal teaching, etc. ||  || AoL ||
 * Group Report || Writing sample used to assess student’s understanding and/or ability to analyze and synthesize information.

Uses: Could be individual reports or a group report. ||  || AoL ||
 * **Reflection** ||  ||
 * Self-assessment || Student gathers information about and reflects on his or her own learning. Student’s own assessment of personal progress in knowledge, skills, processes, or attributes.

Uses: Can be compared to teacher’s or group evaluation, means to measure personal growth. ||  || AaL AfL ||
 * Peer-assessment || Student gathers information and reflects on his or her own learning and contributions to the group project.

Uses: Can be compared to teacher’s or individual evaluation, can be performed as a group or individually, written or orally and anonymously. ||  || AaL AfL || Adapted from [|OCUP Assessment Companion] AfL = Assessment for learning (Formative assessment) AaL = Assessment as learning (Meta cognition) AoL = Assessment of Learning (Summative assessment)
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[|Example Rubrics 1] [|Example Rubric 2]