Activity
Guidance and help, Ongoing engagement
Cognitive / Exam Wrappers for Metacognition
Maha Bali
Help students reflect on their exam/assessment performance in order to improve future performance in your course.
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Help students reflect on their exam/assessment performance in order to improve future performance in your course.
Prepare your list of questions to ask students. Get ideas from José Antonio Bowen, author of Teaching Naked.
Or adapt sample exam wrappers for different STEM disciplines here from Carnegie Mellon.
After a major assessment or exam, ask students to reflect on their performance based on particular prompts, e.g. ‘When they got something wrong?’, ‘Why did they get it wrong?’, ‘What were their challenges?’, etc. After this, students can try to make changes or seek help to help themselves perform better next time.
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This can be done synchronously in class or for students to do on their own time (preferable). It can be done privately, or shared with the teacher.
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