Assessing+student+enquiries

=How can we prove that our enquiries are high quality learning experiences?=

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When crafting the enquiry - wether this be with the students or before the enquiry begins consider early on "What ** skills **  will the students have an opportunity to develop in this project/ enquiry?" . Limit this to only 1 or 2 and these will be the ones you will assess. Next write down in a list the way in which the enquiry or project will enable the students to develop the specified skills and share this with the students.

Generating Evidence of progression in skills

Students self assessment against a rubric Student's self reflection in a journal or project log Observations and comments made by teachers or peers

Some interesting ideas here from the recent K-12 conference on how we know that deep learning is taking place.

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Self Assessment
The excellent site - hooked on thinking provides many rubrics and guidance on the assessment of the skills and processes of enquiry. Among them is a very useful tool for self assessing where students are in their ability to carry out enquiries effectively and independently.

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The use of rubrics can be very helpful in creating a quality enquiry, enabling learners to understand the success criteria not just for products but how the process of working through an enquiry. Below is a link to a challenge set to a key stage 3 class on the topic of Slavery. This was an beginners attempt at creating rubrics - the focus being on high standards of **collaboration** and **resourcefulness**.

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