  articles, opinions, and research about teaching and learning Assessment: Learner conferences and interviewsConferences and interviews with children can help them develop self-assessment skills, and can give you valuable information about how they perceive school and their own performance. Interviews can address the child's experience of a learning activity that has been just completed, or can address the child's overall experience of school and learning. To be effective, brief interviews must develop out of the teacher's observations and the child's self-assessment. Scheduling interviewsTeachers who build strong independent-learning and co-operative-learning skills in their classes will be able to conduct brief interviews at regular intervals. Such a teacher might, for example, schedule five-minute interviews, spread out over the course of a week, with each learner once every 12 weeks. Learning-assessment questionnaires, such as the one shown here, can be used to help focus the interview. (Older learners can complete the questionnaires in advance of the interview, to help guide discussion with the teacher.)
Name: ______________________________ Date: _________________ What do you think about school? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What is your favourite subject: Why? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What have you improved this term? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What do you need help with? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What are you best at? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ How would you rate your learning? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What can you do to improve your learning? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Other comments ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________
from J. Wilson & H. Fehring, Keying into Assessment, Oxford University Press, 1995. |
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