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Facilitating student self-assessments

Facilitating student self-assessments

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Facilitating student self-assessments

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- How often as teachers do we give students opportunities to evaluate their own progress? Sure they can look at their scores on tests and projects, but if we want our students to become better learners and lifelong learners then we need to give them practice and self-assessment. We can promote awareness with quizzes and questionnaires, foster self-assessment with intelligent tutors, and integrate reflection and planning activities. Quizzes and questionnaires are easy ways to help students become aware of what they know or don't know. With a quick internet search, you can find online questionnaires to help students become aware of their mindset, their study habits, their readiness to take an online course, and more. If you assign students to take one of these questionnaires, ask them to save or print the results to use as a baseline. You might also ask them to reflect on how they feel about the results and to create a plan based on what they want to improve. It's one thing to be aware…

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