{"id":3592,"date":"2015-05-04T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T22:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2016-07-15T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:17:50","slug":"secret-agent-a-great-peer-assessment-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/secret-agent-a-great-peer-assessment-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Secret Agent&#8221; &#8211; a great peer-assessment strategy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/spy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3593 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/spy-161x300.jpg\" alt=\"spy\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/spy-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/spy-295x549.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/spy-202x376.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/spy.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a>I learned of this idea from Lottie in the English department at Bradford Grammar School a couple of weeks ago, where I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days working with their excellent humanities staff.<\/p>\n<p>The process is simple: prior to\u00a0the lesson, and unknown to the other students, quietly provide one student with a slip of paper which tells them their mission as a &#8220;Secret Agent&#8221;. Some examples might be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who was most attentive in today&#8217;s lesson?<\/li>\n<li>Who worked most effectively in the group task?<\/li>\n<li>Whose contribution to discussion was the most interesting?<\/li>\n<li>What was the most interesting question raised by a member of the class?<\/li>\n<li>What is the most interesting thing I learned in today&#8217;s lesson?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the end of the lesson, announce that this has been a lesson involving a &#8216;Secret Agent&#8217;. Ask the rest of the class to anticipate who they think it may have been. Then the &#8216;Secret Agent&#8217; reveals themselves, and tells the rest of the class what their &#8216;mission&#8217; was. Get the rest of the class to anticipate what they think the answer was before the &#8216;Secret Agent&#8217; gives their answer.<\/p>\n<p>Use the strategy regularly to keep students on their toes and encouraging them to reflect on the purpose and content of the lesson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned of this idea from Lottie in the English department at Bradford Grammar School a couple of weeks ago, where I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days working with their excellent humanities staff. The process is simple: prior to\u00a0the lesson, and unknown to the other students, quietly provide one student with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[464,467],"tags":[359,360,361,358,347],"class_list":["bg-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}