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Assessment - What is the Student's Role?

 Students should be continually self-assessing throughout instruction. This can be accomplished through sharing rubrics, SWBATs, and examples of work from different units. As a language arts teacher, I was constantly teaching self-assessment through the writing, revising, and editing process. Students were given checklists to use to self-assess their writing and look for improvements. These checklists are essential tools for accomplishing self-assessment, as students must be guided through the process (Tavsanli and Kara, 2021). 




Students can certainly have a role in developing assessments. One of the most effective ways of implementing student feedback into assessment is through a rubric unpacking activity. By closely examining the rubric used for an assessment, students can put the criteria into their own words and use examples for better understanding. When I taught the International Baccalaureate curriculum, we used task-specific criteria to help students comprehend the expectations for each assessment and make notes of them to further guide their work. 


Reference


Tavsanli, Ö. F., & Kara, Ü. E. (2021). The effect of a peer and self-assessment-based editorial study on students’ ability to follow spelling rules and use punctuation marks correctly. Participatory Educational Research, 8(3), 268–284.

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