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Why do it?
Why do it?
The strategy can build student agency as students are required to self-assess their understanding in a topic and select appropriate activities to progress their learning.
How to do it?
How to do it?
Have students complete a formative task and self- correct their work.
Based on their results, students self-select one a task from three of differing difficulty.
Use a cognitive taxonomy as a guide to create the tasks (e.g. Blooms/ Solo/ Krathwhol)
Still learning: Usually a task from the remember or understand level.
Consolidating: Usually a task from the analyse or apply level
Extending: Usually a task from the evaluate or create level
Who can you ask?
Who can you ask?
Lorena Pellone-Gismondi
Example
Example
Students complete a formative assessment:
Question:
Explain what is happening to particles in sweat when it evaporates from your body. Remember to describe changes in particle:
energy
Speed
distance from each other
(3 marks)
Student self-correct using a marking guide:
Particles in sweat evaporate when they gain heat energy. (1 mark)
The increase in energy causes the particles to speed up. (1 mark)
Eventually, the fast and random movement is too strong for the attraction between particles to keep them together. The particles spread apart from each other and mix with the particles in air. They have turned from a liquid to a gaseous state. (1 mark)
Students select a task appropriate to their level:
Still learning: At the board for explicit teaching and then answer the following question: Explain what is happening to particles in water vapour when it becomes liquid on the side of a boiling kettle. Submit to google classroom.
Consolidating: Complete a three-way venn diagram comparing boiling, freezing and melting. Submit to google classroom
Extending: Come up with an analogy to explain particle behaviour when water evaporates from a puddle and forms a cloud and then rain.
Students select an EP task appropriate to their level:
Still learning: Particle model
Consolidating: Changing states
Extending: Chemical versus physical changes
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