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Student Self-Assessment: The Key to Stronger Student Motivation and Higher Achievement

McMillan & 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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Jacob Huckle An image of a white man in a suit with brown hair.

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Jacob teaches English to multilingual learners in an international school in Asia and is also completing a Doctorate in Education focused on multilingualism & intercultural understanding.

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Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.

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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

Shelley Buchanan

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Shelley is former ELL administrator, teacher, library media specialist, and school technology specialist. She has an avid interest in student agency, and the impact of politics on education.

The Myth of Diversity Hiring in Education

September 25, 2022

...if we make teaching a more attractive profession in which one can achieve a good standard of living and professional dignity, we will attract and keep minority teachers.

Grades as the Gatekeeper to Privilege in Schools

January 15, 2021

Despite the initial purpose of grades being an assessment of learning, schools often use grades as a sorting mechanism within the school’s social structure.

The Dark Underbelly of School Remediation

January 4, 2021

Too often, we hear calls for research-based remediation for struggling schools and students. And too often, these are the students and schools that are in low-income, struggling neighborhoods.

It's about mattering, feeling like you matter and also that what you're doing matters. I think it's important for me that I feel like I can bring my full self to something, heart and head, and that all of the various parts of me are alive and challenged and supported and so all of that kind of comes back to love, feeling loved, loving seems at the center of a good life to me.

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