Project-based assessment is an innovative means of measuring student progress toward an academic goal because it uses real life assignments in place of arbitrary, memory-based questions.

The workplace these days is becoming increasingly disfranchised with academic achievement alone as a barometer for successful employment and is instead interested in tangible, real world accomplishments. This is exactly the sort of feedback project-based assessment was designed to fill.

Reference:

Halvorsen, A.-L. (2017, June 20). Project-Based Learning: Raising Student Achievement for All Learners. Edutopia. Retrieved September 20, 2022, from https://www.edutopia.org/video/project-based-learning-raising-student-achievement-all-learners

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