How can we better involve students in active reflection of their own learning?

One of the topics I have been thinking about a lot lately is how we can foster an environment that encourages students to be reflective about their own learning? When I was a classroom teacher, I tried various things to encourage my students to both set goals, and then monitor their own progress toward those goals. I did a lot of cooperative learning in my classroom, and also explored variations that encouraged teams to set and monitor group learning goals.

It seems that a lot of the focus on the analysis of assessment data has been focused on teachers and administrators. That’s appropriate, because those audiences obviously need to be able to make meaningful decisions based on the data at hand. Still, I wonder if there are things we could be doing to facilitate conversations between teachers and students, among families, and by students themselves, around a more active reflection of student learning?

I’d like to hear your ideas about what we might do within the current Edusoft or DataDirector systems to encourage this type of thinking on the part of our students. Thoughts?