After our Parent meeting last week we had some questions about SOLO. Here is some information about SOLO Taxonomy and how we use it at Oaklands School.

SOLO is a model or taxonomy of learning. The SOLO model classifies students’ learning outcomes from any activity, unit or classroom programme. Teachers and students can use it to easily sort learning outcomes into three levels of knowledge: surface knowledge, deep knowledge  or conceptual (or constructed) knowledge. 

There are 5 SOLO levels of understanding (The symbols above relate to these):

Prestructural level - The student has not yet grasped the idea and/or needs help to start.

Unistructural level - The student has one relevant idea.

Multistructural level - The student has several relevant ideas.

Relational level - The student has related (or linked or integrated) the ideas.

Extended abstract level - The student has taken the related ideas and extended them

For example - during our values lessons we have a SOLO rubric - displayed below. This shows different levels of understanding for the CARE values. The children self assess where they think they are on the SOLO rubric and are able to set goals to improve.

We also use it to assess understanding in our Integrated Topic units. 

For further information about this, check out the website: http://pamhook.com/