Assessment of the Essential Question

Assessment of the Essential Questions

Group: 31 ER

Students:

1. Sabina Balguzhina (Why creating illustrations help understand and remember meaning of English idioms?)

2. Saltanat Sarsenbina and Yuliya Zhuravskaya (Why creating a story shown on the layout helps to learn prepositions of place?)

Items for assessing:

1. Main characteristics of EQ

2. Students’ understanding of EQ

3. EQ levels

Main characteristics of Essential Question

Notes: both questions are open-ended, thought provoking and can be applied in any age-group. Topics chosen by girls (idioms and prepositions) always cause some problems to students, so they should be investigated with the help of PBL. However, they don’t connect with other disciplines, raise a limited number of choices, ideas, solutions. This fact can lead to low students’ interest and motivation.

Students’ understanding of Essential Question

1. Each student should be able to understand the EQ;

2. The language of the questions should be in broad terms;

3. There should be a logical sequence to a set of EQ

4. Essential questions should be posted in the classroom

Concerning this item of assessing, there is no doubt that both questions are easy for understanding. The language of the question is appropriate for school learners and people in general. Questions are logically and grammatically correct, pose many answers and can be easily presented in the classroom.

E ssential Question Levels

Overall grade:

1. Sabina Balguzhina – 93

2. Yuliya Zhuravskaya and Saltanat Sarsenbina – 94