Reflection
How pupils reflect on their Learning
Peer Assessment and Self Assessment
Before pupils can conduct peer or self-assessment, they must understand what is meant by assessment. You must also help them to understand the difference between assessment and correction.
Peer and self-assessment are about more than correction. They are about:
- Getting pupils actively involved in the work;
- Providing them with information about what they need to learn and how they will know if they have been successful
- Helping them to advise each other on how to improve, not just what they got correct.
You can also prepare your pupils by:
- Sharing the lesson’s learning intentions and success criteria;
- Modelling the assessment and feedback processes
- Building the right climate
Peer Assessment strategies
Tickled Pink and Green for Go
Self-assessment Strategies
Traffic Lights (Whole Class Display)
Traffic Lights (Handheld Display)
Thumbs up
Thinking prompts
Two stars and a wish
Numerical scale to show understanding (1-5)
Additional Strategies to Make Reflection Work
To realise the benefits, you must not only prepare the pupils for how to assess and evaluate properly, and give them opportunities to put what they’ve observed into practice, but you should also do the following:
- Make it routine;
- Give learners the information they need;
- Keep it varied;
- Build it in;
- Focus on strengths;
- Make it lead somewhere; and
- Explain it to parents.