assessment of thinking skills involving pupils in their own assessment
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ASSESSMENT OF THINKING SKILLS
Involving pupils in their own assessment
Starting points
• HOW IS ”COGNITION” DEFINED?• WHAT ARE ”THINKING SKILLS”?
- Cognitive functions; metacognitive functions- Processing information- Remembering- Constructing: assimilation, accomodation
Conception of Learning
• Socio-constructivism, students’ active role
• Learning is situational - importance of school culture and learning environment
• Inclusive pedagogy • Balance between academic achievement
and student welfare
How to support children with special needs?
• Co-operation with parents• Assesment -Initial, continious, self- assesment, discussions• Support services - Health, physical, psychological and social
well- being -Multi- professional network
1. Background factors in learning
• Previous knowledge• Abilities• Intelligence• Personality; concept of self as a learner• Family background• Learning environment; curriculum, teaching
methods, subject, teacher, assessment methods
2. Learning process
• Strategies, learningstyles, ways of processing
• Metacognition, being aware of own learning
• Motivation, orientation
3. Results of learning
• Conception of the phenomena• Mental models• Skills• Achieving learner`s own goals• Working habits and working forms• Results of learning tasks• Grades, feedback
How does a child learn?
• A child assesses which are the most important knowledge and skills and sets goals for his/herself.
• A child learns by thinking, by experiencing, by investigating and by training
• A child is contructing new knowledge and skills for his self.• When a child is choosing different kinds of acting models in
different learning situations hi/ her learning can be called intentional and strategical
• Being aware of own learning
= metacognitive skills and knowledge
Consciousness of mental processes = 1. Metacognitive knowledge
• Personal knowledge of self and others as learners and information dealers
• Knowledge of different tasks and the effects of their features on performance and actions
• Knowledge of different strategies and how they effect on achieving goals in learning(what, how, when and why)
2. Metacognitive skills
• Planning skills- setting goals- assessing of requirements- choosing procedures and acting models
• Conducting skills- directing and regulating own actions
• Assessing skills- checking, testing- assessing
3. Metacognitive experiences
• Individual sense and knowledge of - own actions- own intellectual competence- own ways of thinking- own strategies- own feelings
LEARNING THE STRATEGIES :
INSTRUCTING THE CHILD FOLLOW UP HIS OWN WAY OF
• understanding,• remembering, • learning,• problem solving,• keeping up his motivation and • regulating of emotions.
Annevirta, T. & Iiskala, T. (2003). Annevirta, T. & Vauras, M. (2006)
”Miten tukea oppilaiden metakognitiota luokkatyöskentelyssä? ”
= ”How to support pupil`s metacognition in classroom?”(The Research Centre of Learning , University of Turku)