Classroom in Woodson HS
Girma G. Tessema
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Involving students in the assessment process is an essential part of balanced assessment. When students become partners in the learning process, they gain a better sense of themselves as readers, writers and thinkers. As students reflect on what they have learned and on how they learn, they develop the tools to become more effective learners. How do students involve in self-assessment process? While I was a student teacher, I grouped students and randomly assgned them the worlds' biome so that they organize information on the characteristic of each biome. They had to search for information in the interent and be able to find the required data. Each group was allowed to presnt its' finding to the class. I have asked students to compare their findings as every other group presents the characteristics of a biome. A biome is characterized by its own: 1. Location on earth 2. Climatic conditions (temperature, rainfall and humidity level) 3. Vegetation type 4. Animals 5. Peculiar features (what makes a biome unique) 6. Its service to human beings 7. Method of presentation, in groups or a student in the group, oral or reading or powerpoint, As they compare their work they will realize how much they have done on their part, because each group will have its on way of data organzation and presentation. Each group will be able to answere the following questions:
As students partcipate in the self-assessment process they will have an opportunity how teachers are evaluating their work. If they get higher or lower scores in their work thay are liable to accept it without hesitation. It means especially it will avoid the misunderstanding that may occur when students get lower grades, because the students themselves are part of the evaluation process. Now that so much assessment is situated in the daily classroom life, there are numerous opportunities to engage students in the assessment process. They- 1. can compare their work overtime 2. create evaluation criteria for a project 3. work with peers to evaluate and revise piece of writing. 4. judge their reading preferences and habits by reviewing their reading journals When students are collaborators in assessment they develop the habit of self reflection. They learn the qualities of good work, how to judge their work against these qualities, how to step back from thier work to assess their own efforts and feelings of accomplishments and how to set personal goals. Generally, as teachers model, guide,
and provide practice in
self-assessment, students learn that assessment is not something apart
from
learning or something done to them, but a collaboration between
teachers and
students, and an integral part of how they learn and improve. 1. http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/litass/self.html 2. Reif 1990; Wolf, 1989 |