Student Reflection Question Prompts
Reflection in STEM is essential to both student understanding and teacher evaluation of students’ learning. Reflecting helps students make connections, understand their successes and failures, and become aware of their learning. Reflections help teachers identify where different students are in their learning process.
Student Self Evaluation
Student self-evaluation integrated into an activity, does not take a lot of time, does not disrupt the experience, and gives the educator a rough sense of whether most of the group has met the goal of the activity—to meet the criteria and constraints of the task—or needs more help.
Checklist for Observations
Checklists serve several purposes such as:
- Providing a clear outline of tasks that need completion.
- Creating objectives for students to achieve
- Increasing objectivity and consistency in grading and assessments
- Encouraging student accountability and responsibility
- Enhancing communication between educators and students
Single Point Rubrics
The simplicity of these rubrics — with just a single column of criteria, rather than a full menu of performance levels — offers a whole host of benefits