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. 

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…