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The scores based on the rubrics will show the teachers if they did an adequate job of communicating what their expectations were, but the observations will do more in terms of showing evidence of student understanding and growth. Students’ final grades should be determined through a post-project collaboration between all instructors involved in the different steps of the process.
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 * For the technical aspects of the PowerPoint slides, the grading will adhere strictly to the previously distributed rubrics. The overall grade, however, will be determined in part by observations made by the classroom teachers and the media specialist. **
 * The third graders’ rubric, for example, contains the category “Level of Independence”. This will obviously be a judgment call based on what the teachers and/or media specialist observe or experience during the work sessions. On a deeper level than that though, will be the assessment of other aspects of the inquiry instruction process. **For example, if the media specialist teaches a lesson on keyword searches, are the students showing that they understand how to search using appropriate keywords? If a lesson is taught on citing sources, are students citing their sources correctly?