Fostering Students’ Capacity to Reflect Through Formative Assessment Strategies

ABSTRACT: This action-research aimed at fostering students’ capacity to reflect on their learning process through Formative Assessment Strategies (FAS). It was conducted in a public school in Rionegro-Antioquia with 33-eighth graders during approximately one year. Action strategies included two stag...

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Autores:
Orrego Restrepo, Lizeth Elena
Tipo de recurso:
Trabajo de grado de pregrado
Fecha de publicación:
2019
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/16379
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10495/16379
Palabra clave:
Action research
Formative evaluation
Learning processes
Teaching methods
Evaluación formativa
Método de enseñanza
Proceso de aprendizaje
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000722
http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept1514
http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept83
http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept10504
Rights
openAccess
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Summary:ABSTRACT: This action-research aimed at fostering students’ capacity to reflect on their learning process through Formative Assessment Strategies (FAS). It was conducted in a public school in Rionegro-Antioquia with 33-eighth graders during approximately one year. Action strategies included two stages. The first one involved familiarization of students with FAS such as self and peer assessment, rubrics and feedback by means of guiding questions, discussions and formats. The second stage put into practice FAS seeking to promote students’ reflection on their own learning process. Data gathering instruments included teacher’s journal, focus group, and students’ artefacts. Findings revealed that students’ capacity to reflect allowed them to take actions to benefit their learning process and support students’ reflection towards task development and assessment. Some implications for this project included: (a) intentionally conducting activities to familiarize students with the FAS and (b) time investment at the beginning of the process while students get familiarized with the strategies.