Self Assessment for Socializing

Socializing is an integral part of human relations and auger well for the human development. Defined as "the involvement of students in identifying standards and/or criteria to apply to their work and making judgments about the extent to which they have met these criteria and standards", self assessment by its nature teaches students how to socialize in appropriate ways within and without the classroom. High school teachers and students became partners in the process of assessment and self directed learning. The questions that teachers asked a class served as models for questions that learners asked themselves in self assessment. The implications for healthy social interactions are far reaching especially when there is so much turmoil in today's family. As family members try to reach consensus they are better able to understand each other and appreciate and celebrate diversity and individual differences that redound to less internal stress and promote harmony.