How Formative and Summative Work Can Be Tagged
LiFT helps shift the focus and feedback from task completion to skill development. Evidence assignments within projects are opportunities for the learner to develop and demonstrate a particular skill or set of skills. Your Evidence assignments may range from practice or formative assignments to summative assignments that showcase skills. Accordingly, you may choose to tag and assess skills differently for different kinds of assignments.
Here are three scenarios that may be useful to consider when tagging target skills:
This is a practice assignment but I want learners to know the skill they are working on. I’ll give them feedback about the skill but I won’t ‘grade’ the work on the rubric.
This is a formative task related to a skill, and I plan to ‘grade’ the work using the rubric for formative feedback. Once completed and graded, I may or may not push this work to the portfolio to be included in the class portfolio grade and class grade calculations.
What to do: | Tag your target skills Check the "Enable rubric rating" and/or "Enable numeric scoring" option Assign a ‘weight’ from 0 to 20 depending on how much impact the assignment will have on the portfolio grade calculation. Assigning a weight of 0 means that even though the evidence gets pushed to the skill portfolio, its rating will not be included in the suggested class portfolio grade.
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This is a performance assessment and I plan to grade the work and definitely push it to the portfolio. In the portfolio, it will be included in the class portfolio grade.
What to do: | Tag your target skills Check the "Enable rubric rating" and/or "Enable numeric scoring" option Assign a ‘weight’ from 1 to 20 depending on how much impact the assignment will have on the portfolio grade calculation. Generally, culminating tasks and assessments will carry enough weight to outweigh whatever other work has been pushed to the portfolio.
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A note about weighting:
Using consistent weighting protocols across classes, whenever possible, will be helpful in the quest to create consistency and clear expectations.
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