Seeing Progress

Evidence-based Strategies - Examples, Research and Tools

Strategy c: Help adults learn to identify signs of progress and strategies for monitoring their learning independently.

Examples

The ESL Classroom as Community: How Self-Assessment Can Work
Dulaney Alexander
After noticing a drop in retention between ESOL levels 2 and 3, this program developed self-assessment tools that would help student recognize evidence of their own learning and provide feedback to teachers.

The Learner’s Log: Evolution of an Assessment Tool
Caroline Gear
The learner’s log is a series of self-assessment tools that are filled out weekly to help ESOL students look at their learning and their progress over time. Several tools are described here.

Tools

Progress Checklists
Read/Write/Now
These reading and writing progress checklists are a sampling of the array of tools teachers and students use to chronicle and reflect on learning.

Reading Progress Checklist
Eileen Barry
This is a reading self-assessment tool that draws students’ attention to reading strategies.