Planning the Project - Assessment

The Stealth methodology recommends the use of assessment rubrics throughout the project. The following steps are intended to help teachers decide when to use a rubric for assessing the project, group work, or any other task that does not have a clear right or wrong answer.

The rubric is tool that to can help teachers identify success criteria, communicate expectations, provide focused feedback, and grade the inquiry process and final product.  A good rubric needs to be designed with care and precision in order to truly help teachers distribute and receive the expected results.  It is for this reason that the STEALTH approach merely guides teachers in the creation of assessment rubrics and does not prescribe which rubrics should be used.  

Teachers should apply learning outcomes that are specific for their school, the students they teach and the availability of resources.  Furthermore, teachers should design their rubrics to focus on a small number of skills, knowledge and learning outcomes that they wish their students to develop.

An example of the assessment rubric below is attached to this unit.