This week’s paper is designed to help you identify assessment for instructional best practices widely acknowledged to produce learning gains. First, choose one of these instructional best practices:

This week’s paper is designed to help you identify assessment for instructional best practices widely acknowledged to produce learning gains.  First, choose one of these instructional best practices:

1.  Portfolio assessment

2.  Project-based learning

3.  Cooperative learning

If there is a particular instructional best practice you would like to learn more about that is not on this list, you can propose that to the professor (do not get started without approval, though).

Next write a paper that summarizes some of the scholarly research available about the method and explains what kind of assessment is necessary to ensure that the method indeed promotes mastery of intended student learning outcomes.  Scholarly publishing about the chosen instructional method may or may not include insights about assessment.  If it does not, you should offer your opinion, based on readings throughout the course so far, on what kind of assessment is best suited to this instructional practice.

This 3-5 page paper also has an APA formatted title page with both running heads (see Start Here/Course Resources for the start of your paper, the title page example), introduction, body, conclusion, and reference page.  The title page and reference page is not part of the 3-5 page count.  Please use level-1 content headings above each section.  See page 62 of the APA manual to show how to format level-1 (and other) headings.  If other sub-levels are needed, follow the same page 62 of the APA manual for their proper formatting and placement.  You need a minimum of 2 sources: your state's education website, KU online library, and/or the textbook.