Culture & Environment

5) Students reflect on evidence of thier current learning to identify next steps to support and/or adjust their learning strategies. 

Students have structured opportunities to learn about cognitive learning strategies.

• American Philosophical Association blog, Takeaways from Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learnings. Blog post summarizes myths and key findings re: cognitive research from the 2014 book Make It Stick.

• Use frequent, low-stakes questions, quizzes, and tasks, like clicker questions or ABCD cards to provide evidence and feedback on student understanding.

Students frequently engage with learning and assessment evidence of their current understanding of the learning targets and reflect on the efficacy of their current learning strategies. 

• Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity, Tanner (2013). Article from CBE Life Sciences Education with strategies for providing time and space for students to think; requiring all students to participate; building an inclusive environment for all students; cultivating divergent thinking; and teaching all students in your classroom. 

• Six strategies for effective learning Materials for teachers and students related to spaced practice, retrieval practice, elaboration, interleaving, concrete examples, and dual coding. 

• Share feedback/assessment data and ask students to write a couple sentences about learning strategies they plan to use to improve.

• Formative Assessment for Classroom Teachers website of the National Council on Measurement has resources in four categories: pre-assessment, self-assessment, peer feedback, and feedback breaks.

Students use evidence of their learning to adjust and revise products they create and how they will engage in further learning. 

• Formative Assessment Rubrics, Reflection, and Observation Tools to Support Professional Reflection on Practice, Wylie & Lyon (2016). Paper describes the formative assessment cycle, peer observations, rubrics for formative assessment strategies, and guidelines for use in self and peer assessment.