Harry Tuttle has come-up with an intriguing way to evaluate student projects using Web 2.0 application.
I’d encourage you to read his post (and the comments section where he answers a question I left for him).
He basically assigns each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy a number — the higher the level, the higher the number. He identifies the level the student achieved in his/her project, and then multiplies it by the number of days they worked on it.
It seems to me that this could be a useful formula. I’m going to add his post to The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom.
What do you think of it?
July 29, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I recently discovered using Bloom’s in the actual assessment system, and I find it has really helped my kids. I use it to asses different parts of assignments (so a single assignment might get a few different grades depending on the level of Bloom’s used).
I use Bloom’s to weight my entire course. Generally, the first three levels are 80% of the course (which match the state standards, which if they get, they should pass), the next two are 12 %, and synthesis is 8%. For my honors course, I weight the latter two more heavily. But the actual content of my course is given as 50/40/10 but graded as 80/12/8.
But I like this idea, it’s a good way to grade a project.