Vermont Alliance For The Social Studies

Project-Based
Learning

Introduction

Phases of Project
Development

Integrated Assessment
Using Multiple Sources
of Evidence

Introduction
The Scoring Guide
Using The Scoring Guide
Assigning the Overall Assessment

Recap and Summary

A scoring guide is a common assessment instrument that brings the different sources of evidence into a single focus. The guide shown here is adapted from History Day and includes only two of several scoring dimensions: historical quality and adherence to theme. The guide shows the criteria to be used while looking at the social studies project and reading the student's annotated bibliography.

This guide has three distinct components: a checklist of criteria, a space for comments, and an overall rating. Each serves a purpose in helping to make decisions that provide clear and detailed feedback to students about their performance.

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