I believe self-assessments are useful for students. Once the assessment is complete students have the opportunity to see where they "rank". Often these magic scores at the end of a self-assessment help the student realize their individual knowledge or position. Often students are surprised with their results and this opens the door for continued learning and self-discovery.
Self-Assesment help the instructor to assess the level of expertise the student comes in to that particular class.
HI Hugo - Thanks for your post to the forum. Yes, students do really enjoy relating the concepts they are learning to the personal experiences that they have had. I am always looking for ways to incorporate these opportunities into my teaching. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Most of the students do use personal or that of real life sessions in a self-assessment area.
Student self-assessments can be useful to students as both cognitive and metacognitive harbors. Depending on how the self-assessment is constructed, students remain personally aware of strengths and weaknesses, preferred topics and challenges, and are able to direct their attention to areas that may need new strategies or directions. Too, students realize affirmations that build growing confidences in areas and overcome instances of learned helplessness.
Self-assessments helps student to reflect on experience and see what they have learned by having the experience.
I think it lets the student gauge what they have learned and apply value to the things that were learned. I also think that it will provide confidence which in turn, will allow the student to participate more in class.
I think with student self-assessments the students are held accountable for their learning. It allows the student to reflect on their goals, achievements and ability to retain information.
In our area of study the student must self assess to achieve a certain level of skill
Some of the time it helps to remind the younger ones of why they are here and it reminds them of their goals the they start the self assesing
to have a starting point to educate
I agree tha students get involved and do a reflection about themselves
I think they should help students complete their assignments more professionally. But, I must me doing something very wrong as I have trouble makeing this work. I provide a rubric for every type of assignment. I walk the student through examples of good and bad work and show how to apply the rubric. I ask them to do the same to their own work before they turn in their assignments. But, I seldom see evidence that they have done this. I also have many assignments where I ask them to critically evaluate the work of other students. Again, the replies are usually very superficial and show little cirtical thinking.
Self-assessments allow the individual student to reflect upon their own work within a set of standards that may have been neglected when having worked on the assignment orginially.
Assessing themselves gives them the chance to truthfully look at their progress and understanding level. It can "open" their eyes to how much they need to put into the class or when to get help.
It can help the students evaluate themselves and help them realize what they should be doing to improve their skills.
By having the student learn a certain amount of material and then practice the part they learned. This way they are not taking in a large amount of information they will be tested on perhaps days later. As they practice the learning, they compare what they did to the teaching and arer able to see where they were correct and hopefully where they need help.
It helps the students in developing their communication skills. That way they can get along with their peers, instructor and prepare for career success.
Hi Robert- Thanks for your post to the forum. I agree that it is essential to review assessments to determine whether they need to be revised. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I have seen instructors evaluate how they are delivering the course criteria based on the tests and quizes. The instructors will keep track of the questions missed and how many missed the questions to see if it was a individual or a majority of the class to determine if they need to spend more time on the material or find a new way to deliver it.
