Student-involved assessment: From KWL to KWHLAQ

• The ultimate goal of AfL is to get students to take ownership by playing an active role in the process of learning in school and beyond.

• The use of routines such as KWL and KWHLAQ elicits students' prior knowledge and interests, prompts them to ask questions about the desired learning outcomes from their point of view

• Read how Know-Want to Know-Learnt has been expanded to KWHLAQ to generate productive thinking and student questioning.