Assessment
A transfer task is a way to see if students understood the big ideas in your unit. This concept comes from the work of Grant Wiggins and Jay McTigue in Understanding by Design. Students must create or complete an original task that has not been covered in class. In this way the task is more that just a test on some material for which they have studied. It is more than that because students must apply their newly gained knowledge and create something original with their new knowledge. It truly assesses a deeper level of understanding on the part of the student.
RAFTS
The final assessment, transfer task, for this unit is in the form of a RAFTS. The role, audience, format, topic and strong verbs are as follows: Role, a citizen of a developing country; Audience, a NGO, president of their country or of another developing or developed country, or general assembly of UN (allow some leeway here because the students may also determine an appropriate audience); Format, a persuasive speech; Topic, obtain help or support for your country; and Strong verbs, convince, plead, urge, encourage, beg, or woo.
Oral Presentation
The delivery of the speech is also part of the final assessment, transfer task, for this unit. Students will be assessed on how well they perform their speech according to a rubric on oral presentations.
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