text: Lastly, it's another way to assess growth. With teacher-designed projects, the projects would be similar to a post-test. They can judge if a student learn anything over the course of a school year. During the school year, teachers see all the mistakes and errors students make. By making these projects student-designed, there isn't a way to know if they student excelled or not. This also ties in helping teachers be prepared to go over the topics that students were struggling on so that they can finally pass that topic.