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Themes > Assessment
Self and Peer Assessment
Contributor(s): Ms. Jandia
Poon and Dr. Raija Kuisma
What are peer and self-assessment?
Self-assessment (SA) is a learning process where students observe, analyze,
and judge their own work/performance based on the assessment criteria.
According to Boud (1989), self-assessment involved two different stages:
- Developing assessment criteria for the subject matters, with details
of grading and marking.
- Making judgement whether students have met these criteria or standards
Peer-assessment (PA) involves students to assess or critique other people’s
work that may be practical work, presentation or assignment. For example,
they may be the students of the same year group to assess each other,
they may be senior students to assess the junior students or vice versa.
SA and PA can both formative and summative
Formative
- To serve as a part of learning process for students
- To encourage students to reflect on their own work
- To motivate students to learn during the course
- To help form certain standards where students can make judgement
on their own.
Summative
- To evaluate students learning outcomes
- To provide a mark which contributes to the final grade for students
Why do SA and PA?
Peer assessment may:
- teach students how to assess or critique other people’s work
- help students to have a better understanding of the subject matter
through self-reflection/private discussion or receiving feedback from
peers
- improve students’ ethical behavior as they learn to assess
other people’s work, not the person.
Self-assessment may
- help students to examine their own work by taking the role as a marker
- improve students’ own work otherwise they thought it is already
complete
- observe and make judgements for students’ work based on the
pre-set criteria
- lighten the burden of the teaching staff
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