A good assessment strategy is assigning a project. An interesting project I planned to do with my students is a stock market project where students learn about stocks and the stock market. I was using this project as an assessment of how students can apply what they have learned about percents and decimals to their lives and in real life situations. I have used this strategy and the students really enjoy it. They can be creative and descriptive in their writing on a particular topic.
Students can then share their writings with the class.
The project incorporated components from most of the ecological principles we discussed in class. In the end, students had to place all the individual assignments on a trifold project board and present their group work to the class in some creative way. The presentations were awesome and the displays were amazing. The students put forth much effort and the assignments reinforced the material extremely well. The projects are now on display in the media center.