EDS300H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Formative Assessment
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Formative assessment and self-regulated learning: a model & 7 principles of good feedback practice. Research on formative assessment and feedback practice within a model of self- regulated learning. Formative assessment refers to assessment and feedback that should be used to empower. Self-regulation is manifested in the active monitoring and regulation of a number of different learning processes. Requires that the student has in mind some goals to be achieved against which performances can be compared and assessed- exemplars help define goals. Feedback is information about how students" present state of learning and performance relates to the goals and standards. If formative assessment is exclusively in the hands of teachers, it"s difficult to see how students can become empowered. If students can easily decode feedback and translate into action- this is an assumption. Viewing feedback as a cognitive process involving only transfer of information ignores the way feedback interacts with motivation and beliefs.
