Volume 1, Issue 24 – The Power of Student Self-Assessment

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing the power of student self-assessment.

It can be difficult for teachers to find the time to give detailed feedback to each of their many students. Thankfully, recent research has shown that having students conduct self-assessments can be a powerful tool even for young students. In an article for Johns Hopkins University’s Better: Evidence-Based Education magazine, University of Albany professor Heidi Andrade summarizes best practices for student self-assessment.

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