Where is the Student Voice in Assessment?

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Here’s the advantage of students reflecting on their own work: When young learners look back even a couple of months at work they were doing then, they may well see a big change. Seeing this change can be an epiphany for an undergraduate student: “Wow, I can’t believe I wrote that!” one student told me at week 9 in a writing course.

Reflecting at the end of a course on a whole semester’s worth of reflections allows the student doing the meta-reflection to synthesize and interpret the meaning of her or his learning over the past term or semester. If this process is repeated over a whole degree program and is capstoned (synthesized in some fashion), we end up with a new evidence-feed to triangulate with the other traditional evidence about progress and learning for an individual student.

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