Assess youth learning through journals, observation, discussion, and applied reflection products¶

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Description¶

The guide recommends multiple formative assessment and reflection channels rather than tests. "The Zone Notes questions and Zone Notebooks can be used as tools for assessing youth performance. Observing youth as they work and listening to youth responses in discussion serve as additional assessment opportunities." Learners may also demonstrate learning through posters, videos or skits, speeches to community groups, newspaper articles, project reports, or presentations, optionally in interdisciplinary collaboration with art, English, computer, and math teachers.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Leaders guide youth through processes of inquiry, analysis, interpretation, and demonstration so knowledge becomes usable

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• youth in grades 5-8 in formal or nonformal settings

Target Learning Goals¶

• demonstrating and applying learned content in meaningful ways
• communicating results to authentic audiences

Related Strategies¶

• Use open-ended reflection questions as self-assessment in place of end-of-unit tests

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Reilly, K., Wooster, B., Andrews, E., Bourdeau, V., Conley, R., & Thompson, M. (2008). Holding onto the GREEN Zone Leader Guide: A Youth Program for the Study and Stewardship of Community Riparian Areas. Bureau of Land Management. https://www.blm.gov/education