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LEARNING TO LEARN: BECOMING A SELF -GROWER 103
EXPERIENCE 4: S ELF-ASSESSMENT : THE ENGINE OF SELF -GROWTH
CHALLENGE
Our best intentions to assess are often overwhelmed by our tendencies to evaluate, especially when it
comes to ourselves. Your challenge is to begin to identify situations in which you engage in evaluative
behavior (judging) instead of assessment-based behavior.
There are 20 Evaluation to Assessment worksheets included with this experience. Over the next four
weeks, focus on situations where you evaluate (yourself or others) when assessment with the goal of
improvement would be a more appropriate choice. For each situation you select, you will describe the
situation, determine the main reason you chose to evaluate rather than assess, and recast the evaluative
feedback into assessment-based feedback.
Aminimum of 15 of your worksheets should focus on SELF-evaluation and SELF-assessment rather than
your evaluation of others.
TOOLS/WORKSHEETS
Evaluation to Assessment worksheets
Self-Growth Goals: My Progress
My Life Vision worksheet
PREPARATION
Remember the Self-Growth Goals you selected back in Experience 1? It is now time to perform an
assessment of your efforts toward meeting them. Review your goals (from the Self-Growth Goals
worksheet in Experience 1) and complete the assessment available on the Self-Growth Goals: My
Progress worksheet.
PROBLEMS TO S OLVE
From this point forward in the course, each Experience will end with a short Self-Assessment worksheet
(instead of the How I’m Doing worksheets that you’ve seen until now). You should use the Learning
Objectives and Performance Criteria from the Experience, as well as the Performance Levels for Self-
Growers (from Experience 1), as an aid to determining the criteria you should be meeting. Your SII Self-
Assessment will focus on your performance as a leaner and self-grower in completing the experience
itself.
A bit about action plans: In creating action plans during self-assessment, we want you to practice
creating two types: short-term and long-term action plans. The short-term action plan is what you can do
immediately to change behavior. An example of this for the following improvement area - “reduce the use
of judgmental language in doing self-assessment” could be to “recognize a set of judgmental words such
as can’t, failed, won’t, must, should, bad, wrong, etc., and strip them out.” This is something you can start
doing immediately.
A long-term action plan would be what you would do consistently over the next 90 days to produce the
level of growth desired. An example of this for the above improvement area would be to “get my self-
assessment assessed weekly by a mentor with a criteria of being non-judgmental.”