will tell much more about their cutting skills than asking them if they know how to use scissors.
next, don’t assume that the person who wrote the instructions for a project took a student’s point of view. a very basic example is a project that instructed the first grade students to cut out multiple pieces, then color the individual pieces and glue them. for first graders, this was the more difficult sequence. what happens when you cut before coloring? lots of pieces of paper need to be tracked and tend to go everywhere. for this particular project, it was much less work to color, then cut and glue, and this simple 