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Student Self-Assessment
Data Notebooks, Portfolios, and Other Tools to Advance Learning
Increase the achievement of every learner with Student Self-Assessment. In this practical guide, author Katie White outlines how to plan and implement various self-assessment strategies to ensure student growth at all grade levels. She covers every stage of the process—from setup to goal setting to celebrating.
Benefits
- Understand how self-assessment skills benefit students now and in the future.
- Learn how to set up a self-assessment process and document learning.
- Train students to analyze and reflect on their own performances.
- Set strong, achievable goals in order to motivate students to realize their potential.
- Celebrate successes and continue to engage students with self-assessment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Embracing Student Self-Assessment
Chapter 1: Making a Compelling Case for Self-Assessment
Chapter 2: Setting Up a Self-Assessment Process and Documenting Learning
Chapter 3: Engaging in Analysis and Reflection
Chapter 4: Imagining Possibilities and Setting Goals
Chapter 5: Celebrating Growth
Chapter 6: Examining Age, Security, Families, and Other Factors
Epilogue
Appendix: Example Self-Assessment Sequence
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.1: Sample Prompts for Each Cluster of Self-Assessment Subskills
- Table 2.1: Building a Shared Language
- Table 2.2: Features of Early Elementary, Upper Elementary and Middle School, and High School Data Notebooks and Portfolios
- All About Me: Early Elementary
- All About Me
- What Would You Like to Do?
- My Dreams and Ambitions
- My Learning Story Sample: Early Elementary
- My Learning Story Sample
- Sample Unit Tracker
- Monitoring My Learning
- Documenting and Reflecting on My Learning
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.3: Process Analysis for Elementary Students—My Strategies
- Figure 3.4: Process Analysis for Middle and High School Students—Planning a Review
- Figure 3.5: Tool for Comparing More Than One Artifact
- Margin Symbols
- Reflection on a Work Sample: Single-Point Rubric
- Tracking My Progress
- Growth Card
- Reflecting on Success Criteria
- Most Important Things
- My Action Plan
- Assess and Reflect on Reading Skills
Chapter 4
- Reflecting on Competencies
- Today’s Goal
- Short- and Long-Term Goals
- Reflecting and Goal Setting: English Language Arts
- Connecting Long-Term Goals to Short-Term Targets
- My Goals
- Goal Setting During Exploration
- Daily Goal Setting
- Reflecting and Goal Setting Prior to Sharing Learning With Others
- Daily Decision Making
- Reaching My Goal
- My Assessment Record
- It’s All Down to Decisions: Monitoring Goals
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
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