Hello brilliant readers! In yesterday's newsletter, I let you know about an e-course I've designed to show parents, teachers, and school leaders how to implement affirmative testing: tests as occasions for student learning and growth.

The course includes more than 20 practical, research-based techniques that you can start using today (many include templates for exercises that you can print out and give directly to your student).  

I thought I'd share with you a sample lesson from the course that covers just such a practical exercise: the exam wrapper.

An exam wrapper is a simple, quick, but very effective written exercise that students complete after they've gotten their graded exam back. The exercise (which is printed on a piece of paper and "wrapped" around the graded test—hence its name) prompts students to reflect on how they prepared for the test, how well their strategies worked out, and what they might do differently next time.

The lesson on exam wrappers, like all the other lessons in the course, has five parts:

1) a research briefing, explaining the general gist of the evidence;
2)  three excerpts from the research literature;
3) an insight activity—an exercise designed to help you grasp the research in a direct, first-hand way;
4) a student activity guide—a set of practical instructions that you can read and refer to as you implement affirmative testing with your students;
5) discussion questions, as well as a lesson-specific discussion page, so that you can always find a place on the web where people are talking about what’s on your mind.

To try out the sample lesson on exam wrappers, click here.

You can read about the course as a whole by clicking here.

And please send questions and comments to me at annie@anniemurphypaul.com—I look forward to hearing from you!
 

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