Resource Topic: Assessment

A ready-to-use Google Form template for peer evaluations in group projects, helping students reflect on their collaboration and hold each other accountable.

A set of research-based rubrics (e.g. collaboration, self-direction, complex communication, critical thinking) you can use to assess student performance in PBL.

A curated collection of tools, articles, and rubrics to help teachers improve assessment in project-based learning—especially around authentic assessment, creativity, and measuring what truly matters.

A simple rubric you can use (or adapt) to guide and assess student oral presentations in a PBL unit.

This article looks at what it takes to move student projects from “good enough” to truly excellent. It explores practices like using rubrics and exemplars, building in revision cycles, making student work authentic, and creating a classroom culture where quality is expected and celebrated.

This article shows how assessment in Project-Based Learning is woven into every stage of a unit—not something extra to tack on.

This article explains how assessment in Gold Standard Project Based Learning goes beyond grading, focusing instead on ongoing feedback, reflection, and student growth.