Assessment capable learners set goals, use rubrics, create portfolios, and lead conferences.

Educators who help their students become assessment capable learners have students who: know the learning target for a lesson, can describe where they are in relation to the criteria, and use that information to select learning strategies to improve their work.

Lesson Outcomes

This online learning package was developed for classroom teachers. Inside, you will discover:

The benefits of developing assessment capable learners.
How to implement teaching strategies designed to develop assessment capable learners.

Reflective Questions

In this video, 3 teachers talk about their roles in helping students to become assessment capable learners. As you listen to these teachers, think about how your role as a teacher is similar or different and in what ways. If teaching students to become assessment capable learners is a new approach for you, what do you anticipate will be easy for you to put in place and what will be challenging?