This student self-assessment sheet is meant for students to use as a tool to better understand and monitor their own academic discussions with respect to grammar, vocabulary, preparation, supporting details, tone/diction, and consideration for audience.
This student self-assessment sheet is especially helpful as students learn to engage in and sustain meaningful round-table discussions in response to an assigned reading, video segment, or other prompt. It is effective with whole-class discussions as well.
The key to the effectiveness of this self-assessment is the recalibration that naturally occurs when the student compares his or her self-assessed score with that given by the teacher afterward.
I have students fill out the self-assessment sheet on Fridays. Students receive back their sheets on Mondays, and they compare their self-assessment with my assessment of their discussion skills. Students then use their returned sheets as guides during the second week, and so on.
I have used this student self-assessment sheet for about 12 years, and each year the improvement in students' discussion skills was so dramatic and internalized that it improved their writing skills, too!
always looking for ways to increase reflection about performance for students.
July 23, 2009
User friendly - can be used for a variety of lessons. Thanks!
April 1, 2009
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Ann: 25 years and counting as a teacher of ESL within a large urban high school; 4 years as a private teacher of adult English Language Learners. Jeff: Five years in the high school classroom, teaching mainstream English courses with a heavy emphasis on writing and Journalism. Now teaching basic reading and writing courses as an adjunct at a community college. He also taught summer school at a high school for four years, the last of them as director of the summer school program. Prior to entering education he spent 25 years in Journalism, starting as a news reporter at the Lowell, MA, Sun and finishing up as Night Sports Editor of the Boston Herald.
