This is a quick feedback tool to help students assess their own learning during a session. As a group, you chose three or five quantitative levels of assessment, which the tutor uses to monitor progress. By naming these levels as a group, you are helping to give ownership of the learning.
Explain the idea of having a simple, quantitative measure to assess where you are at with your learning.
Chose how many levels to have (three is ideal, five may be preferable for more nuanced situations).
As a group, name these levels (e.g. 1 – Can Do, 2 – Can’t Do, 3 – Help?! or 1 – I know it, 2 – I can work it out, 3 – No idea).
These levels can now be used in sessions by asking students to hold up fingers relating to their level.
The session proceeds according to the responses.
With a repeated activity (such as practising a bass riff each week, or a subject you return to) as students to monitor their responses to assess their progress.
This can work particularly well with large groups.
Online students can raise a finger if all students fit into one page in Zoom or they write their number in the chat.
Students are self-assessing learning and asking for help where needed.
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