Self-assessment

What is Self-Assessment?

Self-assessment is to provide students with skills that will help them evaluate their own performance, skills, ideas and to correct their weaknesses.

What is Self-Assessment?

Self-assessment gives the students opportunities to enhance their learning experiences.

It occurs when students judge their own work to improve performance as they identify discrepancies between current and desired performance.

The points of self-assessment are to judge yourself in what you did wrong and what you can do to correct it and reduce committing the same mistakes.

Advantages

• "Many empirical studies have demonstrated that students in K-12 can be taught skills of self-assessment, for example, explicit coaching in using a self-rating checklist or rubric and giving rewards for meeting challenging goals, contributed to accuracy (Brown and Harris 2013). " (Panadero, E., Brown, G. T. L., & Strijbos, J., 2016, p.815).
• Students will be able to do self-assessments in simple terms that are understandable to students, parents, and educators.
• Helps learners understand how they learn and identify learning strategies based on their learning styles since everyone learns in different capacities.
• Assessing strengths and areas in need of improvements.

Advantages

Disadvantages

• Self-assessments can be very difficult and complicated at times.
• When teachers have to provide a step by step break down so the students can learn how to evaluate their own learning styles, more time is consumed.
• "There are clear reasons for students not being fully honest when asked to self-assess (e.g., protecting their ego, avoiding the teacher’s disappointment, etc.) and so teachers themselves should be aware that, whether intentional or not, there is (a) error in student self-assessment and (b) various sources contribute to error in self-assessment (Brown et al. 2015;Raider-Roth 2005) " (Panadero, E., Brown, G. T. L., & Strijbos, J., 2016, pg.816).

Disadvantages

Teachers will benefit from self-assessment!

Teachers are also students that are self-aware and must be strategic in selecting the process and resources that enable them to reach their learning goals: resulting in student growth.

"As learners, teachers set professional goals, monitor their developing understandings about the teaching and learning process, engage in self-assessment, and adapt to different instructional demands because they have an array of learning strategies from which to operate."(Kelaher-Young, A., & Carver, C. L.,2013,p113).

Teachers will benefit from self-assessment!

Self-determined assessment:

Self-determined assessment

"Students decide what information they need to assess their work and how and whom to ask for feedback."

(Panadero, E., Brown, G. T. L., & Strijbos, J., 2016,p.807).

Self-assessment task

Self-assessment task:

When there is a specific task to get done, the students present their achievements alongside with their learning goals and feedback on what they feel they accomplished.

Self-assessment plays a significant role in developing self-perceptions that lead to greater motivations.

Self-assessment plays a significant ro...

Reflection will help students think about what they know or have learned while they identify areas of confusion, so they can create new goals. Therefore, evaluating what they learned, what they still need to work on, and how they can get there can support deeper understanding rather than superficial knowledge. Students will benefit from explaining their work and their own evaluation of quality through reflective activities such as conferences, written correspondence with parents or peers, and written self-reflection or checklists. Lastly, self-assessment can provide a teamwork collaboration between the student and the teacher.

Video

"Video featuring teacher Candy Olandt discussing how she incorporates self-assessment and self-reflection with her fourth-grade students. This video was developed for the Tennessee Department of Education" (AppalachiaRCC Published on Jun 21, 2017)

Self -

assessments

Can take the form of learner contracts, reflections, portfolio reviews, and recordings of oneself.

With the assistance of the assessment methods mentioned above, students are able to evaluate their own performance as well as that of their peers.

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