Helping Students Track Their Learning

By Bethany Petty
January 13, 2020

This article explores how to help students become “assessment capable” learners, monitoring their own content understanding. Assessment capable learners can assess both where they are and where they are going. This article outlines how one history teacher used a common technology tool, Google Docs, to improve formative assessment and build students’ ownership of their learning progress.

Any teacher can try out this easy-to-implement strategy right away. Teachers will find the included template especially helpful. Anyone interested in assessment capable learners should check out this Educational Leadership article to learn more.

Source Organization: Edutopia

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