Assessing and Teaching Primary Students About Self-Directed Learning

Abstract

Chapter 4 describes the development of the second part of the assessment that assesses primary students' SDL. Following this there is an outline of the way the assessment was administered in six schools before and after 150 students participated in an intervention study in which the author taught Year 5 classes about SDL in four lessons based on the framework for classroom development of SDL. The chapter ends with a summary of the analysis of the aggregated scores of 150 students across four assessments of their SDL knowledge.