A balanced assessment plan for a project will include a variety of assessments closely tied to the outcomes-the content standards, skills, and habits of mind-of the project. Most important, multiple indicators for performance give different kinds of students, each with different strengths, the opportunity to succeed.

A balanced assessment plan also includes methods you will use to gather the evidence of student performance, interpret that evidence, and make judgments about the evidence. The assessment plan should include both formative assessments-assessments that allow you to give feedback as the project progresses-and summative assessments-assessments that provide students with a culminating appraisal of their performance.