Project Management

5.2 Assessment

Summative Project Assessment Guide

Summative Assessment Opportunities / Assessment Methods / What needs changing?
Product
Process
Examples of Project Summary Assessment Sheets

Evaluation of the Product By Community Partner, Students, and Educators

QualityExcellentGoodAcceptable Not Acceptable

Meets Partner NeedsYesNo

Meets School NeedsYesNo

On TimeYesNo

ProfessionalYesNo

Evaluation of Project

Did it meet the goals of instruction?

List original goals of instruction and indicate the ones that were met.

Analyze reasons the goals were or were not met. Provide evidence that they were met.

Feedback from participants to improve the project: What do you need to find out from students, community partner, educators, and parents?

How and when will the responses to these questions be gathered?


Project Assessment: Formative and Summative

Community Needs

Excellent / Adequate / Needs Work
Collaboration / Extensive and regular / Regular / Little or no
Need Defined / Clearly and understandingly for students, community members, and schools / Understood between teacher and community partner / Not defined
Need Addressed / Beyond expectations for community and schools / Satisfactorily for community and schools / Not addressed
Shared Experiences / Many opportunities throughout the project / Occasional but regular opportunities throughout the project / Few or no shared experiences
Useful Product / Product went above needs of community partner and school / Product met needs of community partner and school / Product inappropriate

Connections and Continuity

Excellent / Adequate / Needs Work
Working Together / Students and a wide variety of community members work on project / Students and some community members work on project / Few community members
Little student group work
Understanding Systems / Students are able to identify, understand, value, and enhance human and natural systems / Students are able to identify, and understand human and natural systems / Students gain little ability to understand systems
Understanding Connections / Project participants are woven together through the project and to the social, economic, educational, and ecological threads of the community. / Project participants are working together on the project / No to few connections are made
Outcomes of
Investigations / Investigations create greater understanding, relevant curricula and useful products / Investigations create understanding, new curricula and products / Little understanding, poor or no curricula and un-useful products are outcomes.

Place-based Learning

Excellent / Adequate / Needs Work / Attach Curricula
Integrated, multidisciplinary learning / Students were involved in activities that met academic standards in at least 3 areas. / Students were involved in activities that met academic standards in at least 2 areas. / Students were involved in activities that met academic standards in only 1 area.
Inquiry-based Learning / Project was carried out with most of the activities being student organized and carried out. / Project was carried out with some of the activities being student organized and carried out. / Project was carried out with few or none of the activities being student organized and carried out.
Place-based learning / Students gain broad understanding of the fabric of where they live and how to act powerfully in their community. / Students gain an understanding of the fabric of where they live and how to act in their community. / Students gain little or no understanding of the fabric of where they live nor how to act powerfully in their community.
Support of
learning / Educators and community mentors guide and support the students as active learners addressing real issues. / Educators and community mentors guide and direct the students as learners addressing real issues. / Educators and community mentors control and direct the students as learners.

Visualization and Technology

Excellent / Adequate / Needs Work / Attach list of technology used
Communication / Use of technology enhanced communication / Technology used for communication / Technology not used or detracted from communication
Learning / Use of technology enhanced learning / Technology used for learning / Technology not used or detracted from learning.
Informed Decision-making / Use of technology enhanced decision-making / Technology used for decision-making / Technology not used or detracted from decision-making
Visualization / Use of technology enhanced visual representation of the project / Technology used for visual representation of the project / Technology not used or detracted from visual representation of the project / Attach examples
Information Management / Use of technology enhanced information management / Technology used for information management / Technology not used or detracted from information management / List technology used

Sharing Results

Excellent / Adequate / Needs Work / Documentation
Project Value / Enhanced the value of the projects / No difference to the value of the projects / Detracted the value of the projects
Student Confidence / Increased / No change in student confidence / Impaired student
confidence
Civic Participation / Promoted civic participation / No change in civic participation / Lessened civic
participation
Community-school Relationships / Fostered stronger community-school relationships. / No change in community-school relationships. / Weakened community-school relationships.
Facilitating Project Replicability / Provided full curriculum, documentation, and assessments / Provided partial curriculum, documentation, and assessments / Provided little or no
curriculum, documentation, or
assessments

Reflection and Assessment

Excellent / Adequate / Needs Work / Documentation
Project / Thorough assessment and list of changes for next project / Some project assessment and a list of changes for next project / Little or no project assessment and no list of changes for next project
CMaP’s part in the project / Thorough assessment and list of suggestions / Some assessment and list of suggestions for next project / Little or no assessment and no list of changes for next project

Comments:

Create an Action Plan for Next Project

List Strengths of the project:

  1. ______
  2. ______
  3. ______

List Areas for Improvement:

  1. ______
  2. ______
  3. ______

Steps to Improve the CMaP project:

Action Priority 1.

What?______

Who?______

When?______

Action Priority 2

What?______

Who?______

When?______

List any resources needed to improve project.

How will you get them or provide for them?

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