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For self-assessment to work, it helps to give pupils opportunities to reflect on the quality of their work against agreed standards  . (These might be ‘received’ national curriculum standards or they might be criteria that pupils negotiated themselves in the classroom). Pupils are likely to need support when admitting to difficulties, otherwise there is a risk that their self-esteem will be damaged. Pupils will find it helpful to be given time to work problem areas out as well as the encouragement and opportunity to consider a number of possible solutions before taking action.
Your evidence
You may like to experiment with different ways of helping your pupils identify their strengths and difficulties. For example, you could:
· ask a child to give you his/her opinion of a piece of work brought for marking verbally
· ask your pupils to fill in a comment form to indicate what they like least/most about a piece of their work, what they found easy/difficult about it, what they think they learned from it (content and skills), what they think they need to practise more or try harder at
· ask your pupils to keep a journal in which they can review their achievements on a regular basis.
Moving forward
Would using your pupils’ reflections help you to match future tasks to your pupils’ learning needs appropriately? Would you find keeping your own record of the achievements your pupils’ identify in their own work would help you to monitor the progress they are making?
Find out more
You can find out more about the importance of helping pupils to reflect on the quality of their own work on the TLRP Learning how to learn project at: http://www.tlrp.org/proj/phase11/phase2f.html
You can find out more about consulting pupils about their learning on the GTC’s Research of the Month website at: http://www.gtce.org.uk/policyandresearch/research/ROMtopics/pupilvoice/
You can find out more about the potential of AfL to develop and improve pupil learning on the GTC’s Research of the Month website at: http://www.gtce.org.uk/research/romtopics/rom_teachingandlearning/raising/
You can find more further reading suggestions on the theme of assessment for learning at: http://www.rtweb.info/ch14/nfr14.html
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