REAL Learning
Involving Students in the Assessment Process:
Building a Culture of Accountability and Self Efficacy embraces productive discomfort and administrative accountability.
The focus of MAST Module 2 is to build a culture of student achievement and self-efficacy.
Teachers
learn how to effectively implement assessments as motivations for
student achievement, as well as develop opportunities for all students
to demonstrate comprehension and retention of essential content over
time. Students become active participants in the assessment process.
In order to build this culture, teachers create an environment where
learning is seen as an individual progression where risk-taking is
valued and encouraged. A major component of developing this
environment involves students in the assessment process through a
guided, individualized, process of gathering and using evidence about
their achievement to make data-driven decisions about future learning.
In analyzing the data, students make decisions in a process of guided
self-reflection in which they think critically about their learning and
make a plan for growth. As students make decisions about their
learning, they compare their learning outcomes to clear expectations of
mastery for the content provided by the teacher. In comparing mastery
to current performance students utilize failure within the context of
the learning process and engage in a process of error analysis to
deconstruct prior shortcomings and devise a plan of action that will
move learning forward; thereby overcoming failure.