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Tag: assessment for learning strategies
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Sprinkle a pinch of surprise onto your peer-assessments with two strategies that ask learners to think again about what they thought they knew
Self-Peer Comparison This activity is a good way to get learners thinking about perspectives and interpretations. It works as follows: Ask learners to produce a self-assessment of their work but…
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Squeeze even more from your peer-assessments than you are already getting by calling on the twin turbos of randomness and repetition
Multiple Peer-Assessments Having the same piece of work peer-assessed a number of times can be of major benefit to learners. There are two main reasons for this. First, it results…
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Understand the deep, underlying truth of how we make judgements and what this means for how you use self-assessment in your classroom
How do we make judgements? All judgement takes place in relation to some set of criteria. We compare what we see, hear, taste, touch or feel, with things we know.…
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Instantly simplify self-assessment for every learner you teach, so they can look at what they’ve done and accurately assess how they need to improve
Learners can find self-assessment complex. This is partly down to perception, where learners see self-assessment as more challenging than it actually is. And it is partly down to uncertainty, with…
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Pass ownership of how to make judgements to your learners and watch as they start seeing self-assessment as more powerful and more meaningful than ever before
Creating Success Criteria With Your Learners If learners understand what their work is being judged against, they can target their efforts more effectively. This is because they know what they…
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Train your learners to improve their work before you even get anywhere near to marking it
Redo, Redraft, Rewrite It’s so often beneficial to ask learners to look back over their work and improve it before it gets to you for marking. Not that they always…
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Take a break from the short-term and focus on the long-run instead with two self-assessment techniques that get learners thinking about the bigger picture
Visualise Progress with a Learning Journal Learning journals visualise progress over time. They are a place where learners can capture their self-assessments. As the journal gets filled up, learners can…
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Give your learners the tools they need to quickly and accurately identify strengths in any piece of work they produce
Identifying Strengths I have found it to be the case in teaching, and in life in general, that many people struggle to identify their own strengths. If learners are to…
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If you make judgements, you need to understand criteria, the secret keys that can instantly unlock the true nature of assessment for any teacher
How do we make judgements? Assessment takes place in reference to some set of criteria. It’s an act of comparison. You cannot make a judgement without criteria. The process involves…
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Five straightforward ways you can help your learners set themselves meaningful, relevant targets, every time self-assessment is on the agenda
Self-assessment opens up success criteria. It helps learners better understand what their work is being judged against. What good looks like. Opening up success criteria is one of the three…