Inquiry in Room5: Introducing SOLO Taxonomy

Assessing children using SOLO is proving to be a challenge.  Sharing an understanding of the stages, as regards questioning, with the children was interesting.  Most of the children are working at the pre or uni structural level.  Even the ones who were able to use a question starter were often not asking the question about the topic being covered but just asking a random question.  My goal will be to teach children how to ask questions that will help us to discover the answers to our inquiry.

I think it will be more straightforward assessing children's understanding against SOLO and have shared the criteria for this with the children.  At this early stage I realise I am providing the children with an introduction to the whole focus of SOLO being the assessment tool for our inquiry.  Hopefully, the symbols relating to SOLO will have some meaning for the children.