\nEven though we continue to generate “I can… ” statements as a class at the end of each unit, I decided in this unit, to collate the complete list before the assessment. Students were given a copy of the complete list as part of their review booklet. I smiled when one student exclaimed with excitement “Oh, she wrote them out for us in the unit!” – I’m taking this as a success in my books!<\/p>\n
Third step:<\/strong><\/span> The results of the electronic survey were a great highlight of student knowledge in each skill. The responses to the criteria reflections varied and here are some examples: The most valuable input were the answers to the last question. My next steps:<\/strong><\/span> Having just completed another unit in Calculus, I thought it would be appropriate to update the current step in my action plan. Continuing on the journey to have student self-reflect on their learning, I decided to do 3 new things in this unit. First step: Even though we continue to generate “I can… ” statements … Continue reading “Another unit completed, another chance to reflect”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan","category-classroom-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bitmoji](\"https:\/\/render.bitstrips.com\/v2\/cpanel\/6ed0a0da-32f3-4473-859a-27dc19fc58eb-1a8d5073-db05-422f-b1b7-62bfde333167-v1.png?transparent=1&palette=1\")
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\nAt the end of the review period, I distributed the same list of success criteria but added a rating scale to each. Students were then asked to assess themselves on their current knowledge of the skills where 1 was “I have no idea what this is about.” and 10 was “I’m ready to show my knowledge”. They then handed in their reflection and had a plan to guide their studying. Here is an example of one student’s reflection.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jengravel\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-09-at-9.32.21-PM.png\")
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\nI had asked students to rate themselves earlier in the course based on their ability to solve a particular question. This student would often rate themselves 1 or 2 on these previous ratings. It caught my attention that when the process was changed to rate on skills rather than specific questions, this student’s rated themselves above 5 in most criteria. To me, that was note-worthy.<\/p>\n
\nThis last step was generated after reading a comment on my last blog post from @mwilcox<\/a><\/span>. So following the pre-assessment reflection, I then asked students to self-reflect once more on this unit content once they had finished writing the unit test. Along with rating themselves using the same success criteria as the “I can…” list, I added one last question asking students for input on any area\/skill\/concept that they felt they didn’t have a chance to showcase on the test. A copy of the survey can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nThough the pre-assessment and post-assessment were done using different mediums (one on paper and one electronically), by intentionally not made the electronic survey anonymous, I have the opportunity to compare each student’s ratings. I can envision having conferences with each student to talk about their progress in the unit and helping the student create next steps in their learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"