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- Self-Evaluation In order to become lifelong learners, students need to learn the importance of self-evaluation. They can do this by filling out self-evaluation forms, journalizing, taking tests, writing revisions of work, asking questions, and through discussions. When students evaluate themselves, they are assessing what they know, do not know, and what they would like to know. They begin to recognize their own strengths and weaknesses. They become more familiar with their own beliefs, and possibly their misconceptions. After they self-evaluate they will be able to set goals that they feel they can attain with the new knowledge they have about themselves. Teachers should encourage self-evaluation because self-assessment makes the students active participants in their education (Sloan, 1996). There are a variety of ways for teachers to provide the students with self-assessments. Research suggests that the simplest tools to encourage student self-assessment are evaluative questions that force students to think about their work (Hart, 1999). Some examples of these questions include the following:
It is important for teachers to model self-assessment
too. Teachers need to show their students that it is important for
everybody to self-evaluate by doing their own self-evaluations.
One thing teachers can do is to ask their students for feedback
on how the class is going and what the teacher is doing well and
not so well. In this way the teacher is showing that they want to
make improvements where needed. Teachers could put up a suggestion
box, and they can hand out evaluation forms at different times of
the year. This shows the students that continuous improvement is
important.
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