Description:

Relational-based assessment asks students to demonstrate their knowledge and learning as part of a group or cooperative effort.

Purpose:

The primary mode of this assessment is meaningful person-to-person relating and effective teamwork, including such things as reflective listening, trust of teammates, encouragement and support of others, division of labor, empathy, building consensus, and transcending self-interest for the sake of the team.

Group "jigsaws" - taking an examination as a team with each member doing a part of the test.

Explaining to or teaching another - telling another person the answer to a question on a test and convincing that the answer the

Think-pair-share - telling answers to another, who in turn tells another, and so on.

"Round robin" - doing part of the test, then passing it on for others to build on the work