Consensus Building + Jigsaw
It is a group activity through which members reach common understanding. Each student first construct the list of their understanding of a topic. The next level is for them to discuss about their findings and reach consensus in brief summary. As a modified consensus building exercise, teachers can add the element of jigsaw activity as an extra layer to students' understanding by demanding an individual student to become an expert on a concept through this activity. |
Journal
Individual students can demonstrate their progressive learning by keeping their science journals. This journal book can contain quizzes, explanation in visual and/or verbal representation, mind map, etc, which will allow students to assess themselves as teachers can keep track on students' development of four categories of achievement chart. |
KWL chart
It allows students to self-assess and teachers to collect data to improve the quality of lesson as well. |
Scavenger hunt + Anticipation guide
Students first work individually and collect more information from circulating in class interacting with classmates to enhance their quality of work. As a variation, these two strategies can be combined to encourage students' group discussion by using anticipation guide as a format but getting students to move around as a scavenger hunt activity. |
Think-pair-share
This strategy allows teachers to assess students' communication skills. |
Effective at any stage of learning progress
Example |
Check list as a rubric
This could be applied to various assessments as self-diagnostic method or assessment as. Instead of organizing rubric according to levels, students can evaluate their own work before submitting it to the teacher and valuable learning occurrs during their self-assessment |
Modified rubrics Example (Leonard, 2012) |