The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning.
The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning.
How much do students really love to learn, to persist, to passionately attach a problem or a task? ..to watch some of their prized ideas explode and to start anew? ...to go beyond being merely dutiful or long-winded? Let us assess such things. Series Editors' Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Why We Need Self-Directed Learners
2. The Intellectual Dispositions of Self-Directed Learners
3. Developing the Capacity for Self-Assessment
4. Assessing the Conditions for Self-Directed Learning
5. The Teacher's Role in Self-Directed Learning
6. Adapting the Assessment Strategies for Your School and Classroom
Afterword
Resource A: Some Quotes About Self-Direction
Resource B: Selected Resources to Support Self-Directed Learning
References
Index