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.
Recording
Link to Workshop Recording (coming soon).
Resources
- Workshop Slides
- Student Self-Assessment: The Key to Stronger Student Motivation and Higher Achievement
- Self-Assessment (Cornell University)
- Exam Wrappers (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Teaching Tips - Use Self Assessments as Study Aids - Instructor (video)
- Self Assessment - Create a Self Assessment - Instructor (video)
- Brightspace Tip #254: Tests and Quizzes
- Deciding Between Using Quizzes, Surveys or Self-Assessments in Brightspace
- About Question Library
- The Quiz Question Converter (Brightspace Community)
- Spanning the Memory Gap (CAT+FD workshop)
- #LearnEverywhereXULA Advanced Certification
- Subscribe to our blog, CAT FooD (for thought)