13)+Claymation,+Assessment

Assessment of Claymations will correspond with the stages of storyline, production and editing. Assessment can be completed after each stage to keep an up to date clear track on the student’s progress. Although Claymations are set to be a challenge for students thinking levels the assessment will incorporate how they have progressed with the challenge. Have they taken on the challenge enthusiastically or lost interest completely? Suggested by Airasian and Russell (2008) is to use portfolios as an effective tool for documenting student’s learning progress. Portfolio’s can then be evaluated at the end of the Claymation period to see the student’s outcome on the task. The practice of using portfolios is drawn from traditional practices of assessment. However in the use of new technologies portfolios can now be documented on computers instead of traditional methods of books.