Category: Metacognition
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6 Ways Naiku supports AVID in schools
Read MoreAVID – Advancement Via Individual Determination – is a non-profit that helps thousands of schools shift to a more equitable and student-centered approach. Naiku is a student-centric assessment solution that helps turn assessment into a learning experience where students are more engaged and take more ownership over their own learning. This article highlights 6 ways […]
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Metacognition: The effect of self-assessment/self-grading on student performance
Read MoreSelf assessment and metacognition effect on accelerating student learning.
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The Teenage Mind and Naiku
Read MoreIn the October, 2011 issue of National Geographic, David Dobbs explains what’s happening in the brains of 12 – 25 year-olds. His observations are based on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) project that studied over a hundred young people as they grew up during the 1990s . The study provides some rationale for why teenagers act the […]
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Two Stages of Metacognition: Prediction and Reflection
Read MoreIn Naiku, metacognition is a big deal! I often wonder how metacognition came to play such an important role in the Naiku Assessment Platform. Is it because I spent roughly two years doing research on the feeling-of-knowing, an important metacognitive decision-making process (Nhouyvanisvong & Reder, 1998) as a psychology graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and have […]
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Reflection on the MASA Conference
Read MoreLast week, I attended the Minnesota Association of School Administrators (MASA) Fall Conference up in Duluth, Minnesota. The weather could not have been more perfect. We started the conference with a golf tournament to benefit the MASA Foundation. It was a great afternoon of golf to benefit a great foundation. One of the highlights of the […]
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Student Reflection: “It’s like a game”
Read MoreI’ve written about the importance and benefits of student reflection in the testing/learning process before. Reflection is a great way to engage students in metacognition. But basically, it’s a fun way for students to give feedback to their teachers. At least, that’s what third graders tell me. Recently, I had the opportunity to observe third graders […]
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The Importance of Student Reflection
Read MoreStudent Reflection When I do professional development for teachers and administrators on how to incorporate Naiku into their formative assessment practice, the part that gets them most excited is when I talk about student reflection. Merriam-Webster.com defines reflection as “a thought, idea, or opinion formed or a remark made as a result of meditation.” Here, […]
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Formative Assessment
Read MoreIn recent years, formative assessment has been the “it” topic in education. It is what everyone is talking about. It is what everyone is trying to implement. It is what many have hailed as the way to save our schools. Why is it so important? In the simplest of terms, it works! Students learn! The practice of formative assessment is shown to produce […]