Margaret Heritage

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Peer Self-Assessment
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Two Sources of Feedback

• Self-assessment
• Metacognition
• Self-regulation

• Teacher
• Peers

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Critical Questions for Students

• Where am I going?
• Where am I now?
• Where to next?
• How do I get there?

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• In peer- and self-assessment, students take
  more responsibility for their learning, become
  more self-directed, and engage in collaborative
  processes.
• (Heritage, 2010)

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Benefits

• Research shows that the people providing the
  feedback benefit just as much as the recipient,
  because they are forced to internalize the
  learning intentions and success criteria in the
  context of someone elses work, which is less
  emotionally charged than ones own
• (Wiliam, 2006, p. 6)

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Sentence Starters

• It was really clear when you said
• I didnt understand the part about
• I wasnt sure why..
• You made me think about
• Could you explain more about

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Feedback and Success Criteria

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• Introduce your topic in a way that engages your
  audience
• Make an impact on your audience with your ending
• Peer feedback 
• Starting your speech with a question was a good
  way of getting your audience's attention. I think
  you could make a bigger impact at the end of your
  speech if you go back to your question and finish
  with a sentence that shows how you answered the
  question.

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Metacognition

• Metacognition is crucial to effective thinking
  and competent performance
• (NRC, 2001, p. 78)

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Teacher Role

• The role of the teacher in modeling the
  metacognitive process is central in asking
  questions that encourage children to consider
  how, for example, they solve problems why they
  accept or reject particular ideas or why,
  perhaps, they would undertake the process
  differently another time
• (Jones, 2007, p. 572)
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Questions for Team Discussion

• How do the ideas presented here fit with what we
  know about descriptive feedback?
• How are the examples shared in this webinar
  different from students simply checking their own
  and each others work?
• What sort of classroom climate/culture would need
  to be in place for this sort of peer and
  self-assessment to occur effectively?
• Describe one way you can use ideas from the
  webinar with your own students.

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Created for the Iowa Assessment for Learning
Project, 2009-10 in partnership with CRESST,
AACC, and NCCC

• Supported by the U.S. Department of Education
  Award S283B050057