Albany Senior High School/Impact Projects/Assessment

How will I know how to make my project better?
The four principles of impact projects are a good way to help develop your ideas on what makes a quality project. Your mentor will have regular discussion and planning sessions with your and your group about developing next steps for your project to help you get the most learning possible (learning well beyond the classroom)

One tool that your mentor will use to help with these discussion and planning meetings is a rubric based on the four principles of impact projects.

The rubric is one tool that will help make these discussion more useful. It will aid you and your mentor to develop useful next steps for your project that will help make your product high quality, maximise learning, help you be further invested in your project and enable any stakeholders to participate deeply with your project.

The rubric is divided into the four main principles along the top and includes possible discussion starters to help you and your mentor consider each principle in relation to your project. Each principle then has a number of statements at each level of SOLO's taxonomy which will help you understand at which level your project is tracking: pre-structural, uni-structural, multi-structural (bronze), relational (silver) and extended abstract (gold). Extended abstract understanding will enabled you to use what you learn in your project in an infinite number of ways in different contexts after you've finished your project and even after you've finished school. This is what enables you to take your learning to the world.

What does the rubric look like?


The full rubric is here.

How is my final IP grade generated?
Depending on what your project is on, you can expect to be at different areas in different principles. For instance, you may be carrying out a project with a product that sits at bronze (multi-structural) while your achievement in the learning beyond the classroom principle is at gold level (extended abstract). Depending on your prior learning, you may also carry out a project that is at a higher level in one principle, while your next project ends up at a lower level in the same area.

Whatever happens in the course of your project, your mentor will help you to understand clearly where you are at and what you need to do to get to the next level. When you receive your final grades in each principle at the end of a semester it won't come as a surprise and will be a summary of the work you've done with your mentor, stakeholders and other group members.