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Since I am not teaching this year, I contacted on of my former peers to see where she was in this project. She had completed up to the Reptile section. I visited her classroom and took pictures of three of her student's Animal Notebooks. I graded the sections according to my new rubric. Here is the Rubric Categories, Descriptions and point values.

Here are her score sheets and my new grading rubric side by side,followed by a screencast of Student Animal Notebook.

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=Reflections= In analyzing this project and the assessment of it, I have come to a couple of conclusions that I wish to explain. The assessing of this project is time consuming. Having the weekly time lines helps both the students and myself manage the project. I have altered and changed the grading sheet over the years and am still seeing need for improvement in this area so that students get better feedback. The previous grading sheets do not allow for comments or notes of feedback. I have used sticky notes to the students in the past to provide specific feedback. I would in the future include a a space for notes for each section.

By including the rubric, I have given more specific requirements so that the students to follow. In the notebooks for last year the students did not include the grading sheet with the animal note book the day I photographed it. It was however, quite similar to the images of my teaching peer's grade sheet with the exception of our grading standards. I seem to assess the color pages more rigorously than she does. I also noticed that she gave full credit by the number of pictures per a section even if the picture was not in the correct category. I believe this could have been an oversight on her part, however it does not give accurate feedback. Therefore the inclusion of the rubric for the "Picture Examples" category is a definite improvement for this assessment. Likewise the rubric gives better definitions in the each of the graded sections which makes it a more objective assessment rather than borderline subjective grading this project has had a tenancy to be in the past.

I am struggling with how to format both the new rubric and new scoring sheet into one document. Another concern I have is for the point values themselves. I would like to figure out how to give extra credit for the adding of more pictures beyond the minimum requirement into the rubric. If you examine the Animal notebooks from last year they include a handwritten animal report from the student in the section and a print out of their PowerPoint slides from their presentation. I have graded the report and presentation with separate rubrics. In the future I would include all three grading rubrics into the final assessment.