Assessment for improving collaborative learning

Tratto da Anna La Montagna, Italy

I like this video, Its a very innovative assessment method!
The questions she asked her pupils help to a good self-assessment.
I think careful observation/investigation of the teamwork

 is useful for the assessment  of collaborative learning.
Q 3.5 Another experience of assessing collaborative learning
"Prior to the implementation of the project, we developed a checklist with several
rubrics for assessing students about these items of our project: creativity, autonomy,
cooperation, quality of work and presentation of the project. These items were
presented to students at the beginning of the project."
Antonio, compliments for your video. Very intersting!
We share the Seven benefits associated with assessing cooperative learning but it's not easy especially when you are alone to work in this way.In the 21st century school digital tools are
indispensable to a good learning of students and for effective assessment.Through this course we would like to improve the way we teach and assess.
Q 3.6 Collaborative learning and student peer reviews
"My questions to our experts and my peers on the course are the following:
Students as well as their parents usually take summative assessment more seriously than
formative assessment. How can we teachers persuade students that assessing for learning can
be more relevant than assessment of learning? How can we plan assessment for learning as an
ongoing process without stopping the spontaneous flowing of ideas and creativity while
students are collaborating?"
Dear Anna you're a wonderful teacher.
We fully agree on the importance of renewing of teaching and assessing which aims an educational learning and a formative assessment. Our biggest difficulty is to haven't digital tools in the classroom...so our work with students is very very limited!
Q 3.7 What to assess and how?

"This rubric features criteria for assessment, including the
performance of various team member roles such as the team leader, the team organizer, the team
reporter and the team researcher. It also includes quality descriptors for each criteria according to a
4-point scale."
The rubrics and checklists are not part of our teaching and assessment. Unfortunately in our school it's used only summative assessment. But  the examples given in the Co-Lab Assessment guidelines will help us to renew our  methods..and we will use it as soon in possible.
Q 3.8  Luis Valente: Answers on assessing collaborative learning
Diagnostic assessment : use a rubric covering the following four dimensions: - factual (facts, events), - conceptual (concepts, ideas), - procedural (how to do), - meta-cognitive (explanations). 
Very interesting.
We belive that self and peer assessment  helps students to be leaders  and responsible of their Knowledge. In our collaborative learning experience and self- peer assestment we have seen that the less motivated students were able to express themselves with greater creativity and objectivity. We agree   to assigning a percentage weight to individual assessment as part of the summative assessment related to collaborative work.

Thank's for this opportunity. We would ask if is possible to have ( for students 14-19 years): 1. a Rubric (example) for self-assessment 2. a rubric (example) for peer-assessment 3. a rubric (example) for group assessment. Thank's for your availability. Q 4.2 A How can teacher collaboration facilitate collaborative learning? Thanks Valentina for your experience! We share the importance of collaborating beetween teachers for our professional Growing and also to support us. It's true! It's difficult to collaborate with the collegues..but we Started to exchange experiences, to share difficulties and new teaching practices ...also sharing the CO-LAB experience. q 4.3 An experience of teacher collaboration Digital tools and social networks help a lot in the collaboration and sharing innovative experiences. I used Edmodo platform to realize an activity in collaboration with a colleague from my school. But we must do more to improve collaboration among teachers! Q 4.4 The benefits and challenges of teacher collaboration It's very interesting to collaborate between teachers because it helps to collaborate beetween pupils. But unfortunately there is still a lot to do....we need a cultural change as well as digital tools available in our school! Q 4.5 Skills and conditions needed for teacher collaboration We totally agree with training teacher. We must change our mindset. Unfortunately, students are not used to work together because teachers work individually and so don't have a collaborative model. My colleague Maria and I are trying to work collaboratively also in CO-LAB. 
4.6 How technology can facilitate teacher collaboration In our school we use technologies to sending and displaying but not to collaborate. We use also FB, the school website, e-mails. Thanks to this course we are discovered new collaborative technologies. 
4.7 teacher collaboration It's very important collaboration between teachers of different disciplines. Indeed we collaborate (Science and Religion), and we have a mutual, individual and professional enrichment.
4.8  Lesson plan on the Learning Designer