A gallery walk is where students display their completed work and have an opportunity to see what their classmates have done on their projects. They can view the websites, see the Innovation of Evolution artifacts and play the quiz apps. Students gain ideas and learn from each other. This can be an informal event or the teacher can supply feedback forms so that students are giving and receiving productive feedback from their peers. CAPACiTY for APCSP includes a gallery walk at the end of each unit and it is suggested to host a bigger gallery walk at the end of the semester or year and invite parents, teachers and administrators. Gallery walks are great opportunities to showcase computer science and drive interest in the program.
Teachers should implement a variety of formative and summative assessments that meet the criteria of their school and district.
One option for a summative assessment is to grade the ARC projects and incorporate an individual written assessment for each student. The rubric can be found here. The website and the app count for 40 points each. The remaining 20 points will be earned by written responses from each student. These written responses should be completed in the classroom without using any outside resources. Students are not simply copying information from their websites. They should recall the terminology and apply it to their selected innovation.
Team websites and apps can be scored by the teacher during the gallery walk or or the teacher can have teams formally present their projects and grade them during the presentations. The teacher should keep a list of all team websites. One recommendation is to make a folder in your browser bookmarks and save all URLs in this folder.