Professor John Hattie coined the term 'Visible Learning’, which highlights the importance of making the learning process transparent to students, so that they are more able to become successful self-regulated learners. This helps them to develop the skills that they need to become independent and life long learners. 

 

An important part of visible learning is to make sure students are aware of what they are learning (learning intentions), and how to know when they have learnt it (success criteria). Together, learning intentions and success criteria provide a road map to students so that they can navigate the learning process. Providing students with these at the beginning of a unit or topic, and then constantly referring to them throughout, means that students can self-evaluate and track their progress as they go, and also use them as a study guide when preparing for formal assessments. They can also use them to conduct peer evaluation. 

 

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