The document discusses project work as a method of assessment for learning, highlighting its types, uses, and the teacher's role in facilitating and evaluating projects. Project work enables students to develop critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and creativity by engaging in planned, hands-on tasks that connect classroom learning to real-life issues. While it promotes deep learning and collaboration, it also faces challenges such as time consumption and the necessity for teachers to be well-informed on its implementation.

1. ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING-II
TOPIC:
PROJECT WORK
ADITYA ARYA
B.SC.B.ED {CBZ} 5 SEMESTER

2. CONTENTS:
❖WHAT IS PROJECT
❖TYPES OF PROJECT
❖USES OF PROJECT
❖HOW WOULD WE ASSESS IT
❖RUBRIC FOR THE
ASSESSMENT OF PROJECT
❖ROLE OF THE TEACHER
❖MERITS OF PROJECT METHOD
❖DEMERITS OF PROJECT
METHOD
❖CONCLUSION

3. A project work is a planned
and definitely formulated
piece of study involving a
task or problem taken up by
the learner, either
individually or in a group, to
supplement and apply
classroom and laboratory
learning.
WHAT IS PROJECT……

4. ❖ Project reflects about the
knowledge and
understanding of
students reached on one
or the other concepts
and principles of other
curricular arears.
Project work
attempts to promote
problem solving,
creativity and spirit of
enquiry in the
content.
❖ Project is the modern
method in which
students shows his
creativity in designing the
content of the studies.
❖ It follows the
approach of
Learning by Doing
and Learning by
Living.
WHAT IS PROJECT……

5. - in which the
emphasis is given
on actual
construction of
material such as
model making.
Practical tasks
- in this type direct
or vicarious
experiences, such as
reading or listening
stories etc. are
involved.
Appreciation
- in which the
purpose is to solve a
problem involving
the intellectual
processes.
- in which the
emphasis is aimed to
attain a certain degree
of skill such as
laboratory
demonstrations
directly from either
the textbooks or
laboratory manuals.
Problem-solving
Master of a skill,
knowledge
TYPES OF PROJECT….
Project work is a more or less open-ended activity and
depends on the nature of the task.
The nature of a project work may be cateogarized on the
basis of tasks involved;

6. USES OF PROJECT….
❖Project work allows students to think beyond the limits of classroom and
develop among them various skills, behaviours, inquisitiveness and
confidence.
❖The project work aims to apply students’ knowledge and understanding daily
life problems, promotes habit of critical thinking and helps the students to
adopt the scientific method of working.
❖Providing learning environments that allows students to question, analyze,
evaluate leads them to higher-order thinking.
❖The learning that occurs during the process of project work assesses the
skills of collaboration, problem-solving, decision making, and communication.
❖Students also learn to plan and execute their ideas within a given timeframe.

7. How would we assess it……
It is linked with all the three aspects namely :
The content
The process
The product
Assessment doesn’t happen at the end of the task or unit.
We should give multiple opportunities to students to
reflect on their learning.
We should not forget that assessing the project is equally
important that of assessing student’s achievements.
For assessing a project, we may develop a rubric.

9. ROLE OF THE TEACHER…..
✓ As a teacher, we have to assess work quality and understanding of students throughout the
project-building process.
✓ In project based evaluation method, we as a teacher should also play the role of a guide, a
mentor, so that students will not deviate from the topic.
✓ We have to encourage the students to work cooperatively and alert them to avoid the
mistakes.
✓ If the students face failure during the execution of some steps of the project, we must
suggest them better methods and approaches to get success.
✓ We as a teacher, should have a thorough knowledge of individual children so as to allot
them work accordingly. Students should take initiative, tact and zest for learning through
projects.
✓ We have to be active and alert to maintain a healthy competitive atmosphere in the
classroom.

10. Students get proper freedom to execute the
project in accordance with their interest and
abilities.
Habit of critical thinking gets developed among
the students through this method.
It helps in growing knowledge very effectively as a
results of their close cooperation on social
participation in the spirit of democracy.
With this method, students get ample chances
through which they can develop co-ordination
among their body and mind.
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Merits of project method…..
Development of Long-Term Knowledge
Retention.
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11. This method takes a lot of time to plan and
execute a single project.
It is not possible to design different topics and
also not able to cover all topics in the content.
All the teachers do not posses lot of information
regarding the manner in which this method should be
used for assessment and they hesitate to use.
It is not economical from the point of
view of cost and time.
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Demerits of project method…..

12. Conclusion……
❖ Very essential
technique for the
assessment of
student’s learning in
one or other curricular
areas.
❖ Project based
assessments are an
opportunity to utilize
and measure the
higher order thinking
skills of students.
❖ This method will
apply multifaceted
skills to be
encompassed into a
cumulative project.
❖ It is a very dynamic
approach to teaching
in which students
explore social problems
and challenges,
simultaneously
developing cross
curriculum skills while
working in small
collaborative groups .
❖ The students get an
opportunity to learn several
skills such as observation,
reasoning, interpretation
and inference, reporting
etc.

13. • ADITYA ARYA
B.SC.B.ED {CBZ} 5 SEMESTER