Allow Learners to Reflect on Their Learning in Brightspace

Originally presented for CAT+FD on 9 February 2022 by Janice Florent

Learners come to their courses with varying levels of experience, skills, and understanding. Student self-assessment involves students in evaluating their own work and learning progress. Formative self-assessment enables students to thoughtfully reflect on the quality of their work-in-progress and their learning, and determine next steps. Through self-assessment, students can:

• Identify their own skill gaps, where their knowledge is weak
• See where to focus their attention in learning
• Set realistic goals
• Revise their work
• Track their own progress
• If online, decide when to move to the next level of the course

This process helps students stay involved and motivated and encourages self-reflection and responsibility for their learning.

This workshop, the tenth in our #LEX Advanced series, builds on the skills you learned in the #LearnEverywhereXULA course, and will explain why self-assessments are effective and will show you how you can use the Self-Assessment tool in Brightspace to provide feedback that motivates students to self-reflect in a formative format.

Resources

1. Workshop Slides
2. Student Self-Assessment: The Key to Stronger Student Motivation and Higher Achievement
3. Self-Assessment (Cornell University)
4. Exam Wrappers (Carnegie Mellon University)
5. Teaching Tips - Use Self Assessments as Study Aids - Instructor (video)
6. Self Assessment - Create a Self Assessment - Instructor (video)
7. Brightspace Tip #254: Tests and Quizzes
8. Deciding Between Using Quizzes, Surveys or Self-Assessments in Brightspace
9. About Question Library
10. The Quiz Question Converter (Brightspace Community)
11. Spanning the Memory Gap (CAT+FD workshop)
12. #LearnEverywhereXULA Advanced Certification
13. Subscribe to our blog, CAT FooD (for thought)