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Evaluations:

Opening Page

Using Evaluations as PLANNING tools

SUGGESTIONS:

Grammar Level Evaluation Strategies

Dialectic Level Evaluation Strategies

Rhetoric Level Evaluation Strategies

STOCK TOOLS FOR EVALUATION:

Portfolios

Projects

Oral Presentations

Learning Logs

Journals

Graphic Organizers

Published Tests: preparing for them and taking them.

Games!

Projects

Projects (graded or ungraded) make great tools for assessment. The key to using them this way is to make sure that the project is well defined BEFORE the student starts work. See the self-evaluation page for tips on how to introduce a project successfully.

As you know, Tapestry of Grace student pages give many ideas for projects. Using these projects for assessment enables you to:

Give credit for creativity, effort and ingenuity
Encourage your student to hone "life skills" like problem solving, integration of learning into real life situations, and perseverance in the face of failed vision (projects often look differently than we pictured they might, don't they?).
Encourage tactile learners to display what they've learned in a non-verbal, but very acceptable, way
Combine the honing of life skills with the academic, factual subject matter.
Helps the student "sum up," "overview," and "solidify" his course material.

More to come...