Sara E. Thomas
Assessing a work of art is very difficult. There are some students which art comes naturally to, while others put in three times the amount of work with half of the outcome. Due to this fracture in ability I rely heavily on rubrics for assessment. I also base a large portion of the students' grades on effort, this way they are forced to push themselves to their own personal limit every day. This effort grade is almost half of their grade.
Each project is graded using the rubric referenced earlier, which students also complete as a self-evaluation. The rest of each student's grade will be comprised of quizzes about the information learned. Their final project will also have more weight than the others, since it will be the synthesis of the entire unit.