Group products can also be used for assessment and reporting. Students can assess themselves and their groupmates with checklists, tally sheets, rating scales, rubrics, or open-ended reflection sheets. Involve students, classmates, and parents, in reporting assessment results. Student-teacher conferences enable each student to discuss with the teacher individual progress in reaching learning goals, incorporating the student's, teacher's' and cooperative group members' assessments in the dialogue. Use cooperative learning groups to help individualize the educational goals, learning processes, assessment procedures, and reporting procedures for gifted and disabled students.
Individual assessment is more frequent than group assessment, but both are important.
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