In the world of work, the ability to be able to evaluate one’s work and that of others against certain standards is a must-have skill. In the workplace, unlike the university context, people don’t get detailed feedback on their work or that of others on a regular and ongoing basis. By developing skills to assess peers and to self-assess, learners develop the “evaluative judgement” (Tai et al., 2018) skills essential to be successful in professional contexts and the digital world where much of the critical assessment of work needs to happen.
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So in the literature, there are a number of definitions for self and peer assessment. But here I use the term assessment in its broader sense, that encompasses the ideas of evaluation, review, critique, and judgement. In bringing together the literature we frame self and peer assessment in its most simplistic terms. Self-assessment is something that students judge and make decisions about their own work against a particular set of criteria. And peer assessment is something that students judge and make decisions about the work of their peers against particular set of criteria.
In this course, you will learn about self and peer assessment. Here, self-assessment is defined as the judgements and decisions students make about their own work against particular criteria. Peer assessment is defined as the judgements and decisions students make about the work of their peers against particular criteria (Adachi, Tai, & Dawson, 2017).
While self and peer assessment can come in many forms, there are typically two common scenarios:
- Peer review – a one-to-one feedback process where students look at and give feedback on peers’ work (i.e., assessment of the output).
- Teamwork evaluation – a one-to-many feedback process in group/team environments where students evaluate on the process of group/teamwork (assessment of the process).
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