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Student Self-Assessment: The Key to Stronger Student Motivation and Higher AchievementMcMillan & Hearn
2008
A summary overview of self-assessment and its usage in the classroom, including tendencies toward mastery and reflective thinking. Provides multiple stages of implementation, a lengthy amount of research studies, and highlights the benefits of its usage. Noted are the benefits to intrinsic motivation as a result of taking control of one’s learning.
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Trevor Aleo
Trevor teaches high school English, designs professional learning experiences for teachers, and researches the intersection of disciplinary literacies and multimodality. He is a co-author of Learning That Transfers: Designing Curriculum for a Changing World and a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne.
