One of my students asked me last week if the material from the team presentations was going to be on the final. The answer is yes as I think these team topics are important and I believe that accountability helps the students be more attentive to each other's presentations. The difficulty though is deciding what questions to ask.
Thus, I've decided to let the teams design their own questions for assessment. Each team has been told to develop 10 questions to assess their classmates' understanding of their topic. The questions can be multiple choice, true/false, matching, or a combination. As I told the students, this will be beneficial in several ways: it will force the teams to think about how to present their material in a way so that knowledge CAN be tested; it will show them how difficult it can be to come up with good assessment questions; and it will help focus studying for all the students (although they will not know which questions I will choose).
I would be interested in hearing from other faculty as to whether they test student learning on class presentations...
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