Cobb Chapter 9 R.R

1. Description of a method of understanding prior-knowledge of students.

You can gain an understanding of a students’ prior-knowledge by talking to them, asking them what they know and observing them in conversations with one another

2. Discussion on the importance of establishing anchors for a project.

By establishing anchors you gain a sense of where students’ are starting and how far they are going as they work to meet learning goals.

3. Description of several ways to assess what students learned during the project.

By observing or watching and listening to the students, we are able to see and hear what the students have actually taken in.

Open discussion on a topic can show how well students understand a subject.

Have students write in a daily journal.

Students outcome of project can be assessed. How well did they do?

4. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

This chapter made me consider keeping the book for future use! I really enjoyed all of the advice. I plan on doing non-traditional assessment based on student work and this chapter gave me good ideas about how to go about doing so.