The scores of a whole class on each dimension can be produced as pie charts (see right) The traffic light colours indicate the relative numbers of students who report themselves to have high levels of a dimension (green), low levels (red) and moderate levels (yellow).
What sort of a class does this profile suggest?
This class profile suggests a class with relatively low levels of strategic awareness and the active learning dimensions of Creativity, Curiosity, and Meaning Making. However, they are more likely to exhibit positive Learning Relationships, a sense of Changing and Learning, and Resilience. In fact, this sort of profile is typical of a class being prepared for external, summative assessments—they are willing to receive and remember what they need to know to pass the test, to work hard, but they generally lack the active learning strategies necessary to figure it out for themselves and, importantly, the awareness of their own learning practices.
This information has proved important pedagogically in focusing teaching strategies in ways which promote ownership and engagement, and in developing a language for learning which can be shared and deployed in the classroom.