Peer assessment helps students evaluate their own work or the work of classmates using standards set by a teacher. This lesson introduces the process and explores its educational, practical, and emotional effects.
Self-assessment is when students evaluate their own work. Peer assessment is when students assess work produced by classmates. In both cases, evaluation should be guided by the teacher’s benchmarks rather than personal preference. Teachers often provide rubrics to clarify expectations.
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Peer assessment
Students evaluate classmates’ work using shared criteria or teacher-provided benchmarks.
Self-assessment
A student evaluates their own work against established standards.
Metacognition
Thinking about and evaluating one’s own learning and thinking.
Rubric
A guide that describes assessment objectives and indicates how much each contributes to a grade.
Local bias in peer assessment
A rating tendency shaped by an assessor’s limited sample of submissions.
Quiz questions
What does a rubric help students understand when assessing open-ended work?Answer: The assessment objectives and how much each objective contributes to a grade.
In the comparison by Sadler and Good, how did self-graders and peer graders tend to differ from teachers?Answer: Self-graders tended to overgrade, while peer graders tended to undergrade.
Which set of qualities is commonly used to describe effective feedback?Answer: Specific, actionable, and justified.
In peer grading of group work, what is meant by creative accounting?Answer: Giving other members unusually low marks while assigning oneself unusually high marks.
Why can peer assessment at scale produce local bias?Answer: Assessors may use a rating scale differently based on their limited sample of work.
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