Assessment for Learning
Evaluation tracks the progress in learning; however, too much focus on giving quantitative grades will tolerate carrot-and-stick motivation: students will just aim for good report cards by rote memorization. To facilitate healthy peer-to-peer feedback, co-designing a rubric to assess learning projects could be an alternative.
Co-Rubrics is one of the digital tools that can be used by the teachers to co-design a reform-based learning development system. It is an add-on in Google Sheets for students’ evaluation and results’ analysis. Basically, a rubric is disseminated to the entire class by the teacher; each student can give marks to his/her peers.
Currently, as a teacher assistant, I am not responsible to give formal marks to students; however, in the document below, I have thought of formative, informal, and summative assessments for a fifth-grade class that uses Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Other than Co-rubrics, it is also possible to use Educational Technology apps like Kahoot to evaluate the individual performance of the students, as it still generates an Evaluation Report. In this manner, there is no intimidation among the kids when their level of understanding is being measured.
