Assessment of Learners

I have learned that when designing a project I should keep in mind the standard that I need the learners to achieve and what they should know. This assessment should be a continuous process just to ensure that the learners are getting the content knowledge as well as the skills that they very much need in order to complete project.

There are two types of assessments that the teacher can do; Formative and Summative assessment. Formative assessment gives meaningful  feedback to students and specifies ways to improve. Formative assessment is practice while Summative is perfomance. A summative assessment is not necessary at this moment since most of what is supposed to be learnt has been learnt and nothing has been left out.
The demands of the project  should be assessed properly and to do so there is need to align them to the standards expected. Assessment helps the teacher to know whether the learners have mastered the given standards. Not all standard can be met in a single project but the assessment should target the most important goals at the time and target their indepth in order to ensure deep learning for  the learners. When designing a project, you as a teacher , have a mission. There are certain goals you want your learners to attain. And that is why you carry out an assessment in order to ensure the learners have met those standards.  There must be clear intent of what is truly to be assessed.
The teacher should also ensure that there are 21st century skills to be assessed and graded. Skills such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, technology literacy and maybe presentation.