Self assessment is core to self learning or open learning. Children at aarohi unschool in India use self assessment as part of their learning process on a daily basis and usage of tools helps them look back at their day / work in many diff ways and hence enhancing learning.

1. 10
Self
Assessment
Tools
1. Rating - Ladder / volume knob
2. Collecting - Crown / Jar
3. Random question - Dice / fortune teller
4. Tracking - Graph / Time Plot
5. Organiser - Train
6. Review - Like-Dislike (traffic signal)
7. Continuum - Rope and knots
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2. Rating
Key Q?: How well did I do it?
TYPE: Quantitative
USAGE: Anywhere, Any aspect
EXAMPLE: Movie Ratings
VARIANTS: 5 point scale, Grades,
Stars, etc
VALUE ADDs: Describe each rung
with text.
Bar from giving middle ratings (say no
4, 5 or 6)
Ladder
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3. Collecting
Key Q?: How many times did I use it?
TYPE: Quantitative
USAGE: Suitable for specific skills /
abilities / HOM used
EXAMPLE: Score Card
VARIANTS: Freq charts, Any kinds of
marking or tokens collection.
VALUE ADDs: Describe each
collection (eg responsibility jar
- write on a chit and
make a ball and put it in the jar)
Diff colour for diff kinds of usages -
red for judgemental, blue for non
judgemental responses
Crown
respon
sible
attenti
ve
caring
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4. Questions
Key Q?: Have I thought about it
in this way?
TYPE: Perspective
USAGE: Suitable for expanding /
widening the reflection
EXAMPLE: Reflective Qs
VARIANTS: Pre written questions
randomised by any medium.
VALUE ADDs: For each question -
think of two opposite answers
For each question - add one more
question of mine
Dice
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5. Tracking
Key Q?: How did I do over time?
TYPE: Quantitative
USAGE: Track one aspect over a
period of time
EXAMPLE: Performance over time
VARIANTS: Plots, line charts, time
lines, etc
VALUE ADDs: Label each point on the
time line qualitatively.
Plot
H O U R S
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6. Organiser
Key Q?: In each category (sub
category) - what I did?
TYPE: Qualitative
USAGE: Suitable for covering all / diff
aspects of any doing / day. Useful for
planning and then evaluating
EXAMPLE: A form
VARIANTS: Mind-Maps, Quadrant
charts (SWOT), etc
VALUE ADDs: Create own organiser
in advance and fill it up at the end.
Train
WHAT
WE DID
WHO ALL
DID WHAT
STRENGTHS
USED
RESULTS
ACHIEVED
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7. Review
Key Q?: Did I like it?
TYPE: Qualitative
USAGE: Suitable for quick overall
review (used as a survey).
Specially of end result.
EXAMPLE: Facebook
VARIANTS: Thumbs up / down, etc
VALUE ADDs: Give reason with
review.
Talk what would have caused the
review to change (either ways).
Traffic signal
LIKE
INTERESTING
DISLIKE
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8. Continuum
Key Q?: Where in between two
extremes was I?
TYPE: Qualitative
USAGE: Suitable when we fluctuate
between two equally acceptable
opposites (Busy- Resting, Adjusting -
Challenging).
EXAMPLE: Paradoxes
VARIANTS: Slider, etc
VALUE ADDs: Give reason for the
placement of the knot.
Talk what would have moved towards
any one extreme.
Rope & Knots
TRYING MANY THINGS
FOCUSSED ON ONE
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9. Choosing
Key Q?: Which out of the options was
applicable for me?
TYPE: Qualitative
USAGE: Suitable to identify what was
I going through or using
EXAMPLE: Multiple Options Quizzes
VARIANTS: Charts,
Drop down lists, etc
VALUE ADDs: Mix up some
interesting, offbeat or
even crazy choices.
Give one example why you have
chosen this.
Emoticons
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10. Filtering
Key Q?: Which out of my list
- are most important?
TYPE: Qualitative
USAGE: Write all possible events,
achievements, strengths used etc and
then one by one I throw away the not
imp ones - till I am left with 1-3 toppers
EXAMPLE: Prioritisation
VARIANTS: Funnels, Ranking lists,
strike throughs, Order-the-Tower etc
VALUE ADDs: Track over a period of
time - observe what I dispose and what
I value. Do I see a pattern?
TrashBin
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11. Impact
Key Q?: How significant is my impact?
TYPE: Quantitative
USAGE: This is measurement of extent
/ impact / results.
EXAMPLE: Percentage
VARIANTS: Impact pies etc
VALUE ADDs: Describe what all was
achieved and what all was left?
How will I achieve what is left?
Cup
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12. Metaphor
Key Q?: How can i relate my
experience to (any) object.?
TYPE: Qualitative
USAGE: Connect specific features of
any object with our experience - helps
in pulling out key characteristics.
EXAMPLE: Symbols
VARIANTS: Making a logo, connecting
to a story or character etc
VALUE ADDs: Draw, make using clay,
sand, paper etc.
Visuals
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BONUS
TOOL

13. USING TOOLS
● While I use it on self, I can invite
peers, observers, facilitators to
use the same tool on me.
● I can note observations which
arise out of the usage of the tool
in words or as drawings in my
notebook and use this notebook
as a journal of observing self
over time.
● What I assess myself about is
perhaps more important than
how I assess - hence I plan my
assessment.
What
to
assess
How to
assess
How
assessment
helped
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