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Using the Agency Survey to Track Shift

What led to this learning?
My Numeracy group took the Agency Survey at the beginning of the year. When I reviewed the results I noticed the group was lowest in the area of assessment capability.
Summary of learning design:
I decided to focus on using the Learning Process to build my learners' ability to use feed back and take action. Some ways of implementation were as follows: ~ SchoolTalk Checkout before leaving workshops or Numeracy for the day. ~ Using teacher created and learner created Success Criteria ~ Shoulder tap and choice workshops through whole hub Numeracy ~ Choice grouping when working on independent learning tasks ~ SchoolTalk Thursdays ~ Students paired up by teachers to receive feedback on what they are uploading onto SchoolTalk
Reflection on Learning Design
My initial assumptions were inaccurate and somewhat incomplete. I should have looked deeper in to the survey, as well as at more students, possibly even waited a bit longer to get to know my student better. By the end I was able to see shift in all of my student in most areas which was nice. The agency survey was very useful for tracking shift in my students' learning and what they feel about their learning. I will most likely do a bit more set up and teaching around what each of the topics are before giving it next year as I believe the initial survey results were a little misleading due to lack of understanding by the learners.
Curriculum Links
Numeracy
Agentic Capabilities
Take Action, Assessment Capable

Link to Evidence

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