Bobby's Post 1:evaluation and assesment
I am going to be grading each of the student’s essays on the content, not so much on the grammar. I don’t want them to be caught up on making their sentences perfectly, because I am not an English teacher. I want them to be able to pass on their content effectively and concentrate on the reliability of their content. However, if the grammar is really bad I will advise the student to correct it and then resubmit it. I will be giving each student their own personal extensive feedback. I believe that in order for students to learn, they have to know what they are doing wrong. So I want to give them enough feedback for them to take some additional information from the project. The essay portion of this project will be worth a total of 100 points; 75 percent on content, 10 percent on grammar, and 15 percent on reliability of information.
The second part of this project is a presentation. The presentation will be done on PowerPoint or any other means the student wishes to convey his message. The presentation will be worth a total of 65 points. I will be looking for the effectiveness of the presentation, the content being passed on, and the overall presentation. I will be taking notes on each student’s presentation and be formulating a quiz from that. I will use this quiz to see if the students were learning about the different culture their classmates are presenting. It will be a multiple choice quiz with one or two short answer essays. The quiz will be worth 35 points and will be added on to the presentations to form a total of 100.
After the essay, presentation and quiz, i will have my students write a reflection or a reaction paper on the overall project. I really like the idea of hearing about the students feeling on the assignments they are doing. I will use their feedback to create a better assignment for future classes.
posted by bobby @ 3/29/2006 12:38:00 PM
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Bobby.
I think it is important that you specified how you will be dealing with grammar in your essay. May I suggest that you have a specfic checklist for your grammar rubric? When I assign thesis writing to kids, I must set up a strict list of which conventions I would be marking off for... (bad sentence, I know)... That isn't so much for the student's benefit, but for mine. Otherwise, I will be going crazy with the purple pen...
Here is my checklist:
I will be looking at
1. subject/verb agreement (issues with prepositions)
2. correct pronoun usage
3. inappropriate fragments and run-ons
4. your/you're
5. its/it's
6. their/they're/there
That is it. If I have done specific instruction on a convention, that will be included on the list. Next year, when I fine tune the ninth and tenth curricula for Lehigh Senior HS, will will be notifying other departments of the convention instruction and the checklist...
jbconely,
Thank you for your complimants. I am not sure on what to expect for my students. I don't expect nothing spectacular, just if a student has some other way of presenting his culture than he can have the oppurtunity to do so. I think they need to come to me for approval, i wouldnt want them just to wing the whole thing, that can get a little stressful. Once again thank you for all the help this semester.
-bobby
Ms. I,
That is a really good suggestion, i might change it to that when i do my final draft. i dont want to grade my students to harshly on their grammer, that is what the english teachers are for. I just hope they learn the history and critical thinking skills, but also use good english. Thank you for the suggestions.
-bobby
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