Self-directed Learning

Making assessment criteria comprehensible to increase student agency

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Are our feedback comprehensible to students? Constructive and supportive feedback is an essential part of our personal growth. Feedback is only useful when receivers can understand the message and feel motivated to take actions to improve their performance. In my opinion, effective feedback should be an interactive process that involves “comprehensible input” in order for self-regulated learning […]

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Develop student assessment literacy

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Formative feedback  It all started when I attended Kim Edwards’s session, Changing the narrative about student expectations, formative evaluation and feedback, at the IB Conference in Yokohama in 2017. I was very inspired by how the school (Presbyterian Ladies College) has translated Hattie’s research and taken actions to examine the process of giving and receiving

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Customized Reflection sticky notes

6 Reflection sticky notes

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Reflection Strategies Are you looking for some ideas to help students reflect critically? This post is to share 6 reflection strategies on the customized sticky notes. Protocols included:  Connect – Extend -Challenge Triangle – Square – Circle  I used to think… Now I think… My thinking shifted because… Tweeter template  The most important idea for

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