Often, groups who have worked together are assessed together. Students also learn to assess themselves as part of their role of self-regulation. Portfolios are used to collect students' work. They may include student projects, learning journals, a record of interviews with teachers, and student essays. Culminating projects, performances, and exhibits serve both learning and assessment functions.
Classroom based on situated cognition look different from traditional classrooms.
Students rarely compete with each other for grades. Collaboration in heterogeneous groups is the norm, although individual work is appropriate at times. These classrooms may also be noisy at times. Ability grouping is no longer necessary. In fact, it tends to deter the rich learning that is a goal of situated cognition.