Harkness Assessments

Assessments are designed to be used to  provide  feedback to students on  the mastery of knowledge and skills that are being measured. Harkness discussions can be assessed in a variety of ways, using traditional grades or the rubrics of proficiency-based learning.  On  this page there are links to a wide variety of assessments that may be helpful for you to  use  or  modify for your classroom. 


Analyze a Harkness Rubric - for students and teachers (Google Doc)
Annotating Text with Glows and Grows Assessment (Google Doc)
Articles on Assessment (Google Doc)
Assessing Harkness Discussions Rubric (Google Doc)
Assessment: Collaborating Effectively and Respectively (Google Doc)
Copy of Outsiders / Heroes HARKNESS Discussion/Assessment (Google Doc)
Detailed Harkness Participation Assessment Rubric (PDF)
Devil in the White City Harkness Reflection with Claim and Evidence (Google Doc)
Discussion Self Assessment and Reflection (Google Doc)
Formative Harkness Self Reflection and Assessment (Google Doc)
Glows and Grows Feedback Form (PDF)
Graded Discussion Rubric (Google Doc)
Harkness Assessment and Reflection Sheet (Google Doc)
Harkness Assessment for 9th Graders (Google Doc)
Harkness Assessment Rubric (Google Doc)
Harkness Assessment Rubric - Landscape Orientation (Google Doc)
Harkness Assessment Rubric - Portrait Orientation (Google Doc)
Harkness Assessment Tool with Traditional Grades (PDF)
Harkness Discussion Feedback Form from PEA (PDF)
Harkness Discussion Assessment (Google Doc)
Harkness Discussion Assessment with teacher notes (Google Doc)
Harkness Discussion Evaluation and Observations for Improvement (Google Doc)
Harkness Discussion Evaluation Circling Comments (PDF)
Harkness Exit Ticket and Reflection (Google Doc)
HARKNESS: IT 5.6 & C 1.7 (ANY TEXT) (Google Doc)
Harkness Participation Assessment Rubric (PDF)
Harkness Prep Questions and Assessment (Google Doc)
Harkness Prep Sheet, Reflection and Assessment (Google Doc)
Harkness Reflection - Full (Personal, Group, Content, Implications) (Google Doc)
Harkness Reflection with Claim & Evidence (Google Doc)
Harkness Self and Group Reflection (Google Doc)
Harkness Table Tracking by Students (.docx)
Listening Sheet & Self Eval Rubric (Google Doc)
McGowan - How Will Harkness Discussions Work In Our Course? (Google Doc)
Modest Proposal Harnkess Reflection with Claim and Evidence
Physics Pendulum Harkness Assessment (Google Doc)
Revised Harkness Rubrics for Beginning and More Advanced Students (Google Doc)
Rubric for Evaluating a Harkness Discussion 2020 (Google Doc)
Self-Direction - Engagement and Focus: Harkness Assessment (Google Doc)
Socratic Seminar Links to Common Core Standards (PDF)
Speaking:Listening Rubric For Harkness Discussions (PDF)
Students' Evaluation of Other Students (Google Doc)
Students' Evaluation of Other Students (.docx)
Summative Harkness Reflection (Google Doc)
Teacher Checklist for Harkness Evaluation (PDF)
Warm and Cool Feedback for Students (Google Doc)
Rules of Harkness that says “1) all voices matter; everyone contributes; be aware of your own participation. 2) Use sentence stems to keep discussion flowing. 3) Text references, summarize and use page number and paragraph. 4) Respectful body langua…