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      • Peer assessment can encompass both oral and written language skills and can be done individually, in pairs, or in groups. It can be conducted on a variety of tasks such as writing assignments, portfolios, projects, oral presentations, quizzes, and tests. The outcome of a peer assessment task can be feedback, grading, or both.
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  2. Over the past decades, peer assessment has been increasingly used as an important strategy and approach for collaborative learning, and is a major assessment activity in writing classrooms in a variety of school and university settings.

  3. What is self and peer assessment? Self-assessment enables students to take ownership of their learning by judging the extent of their knowledge and understanding. It provides a structure for them to reflect on their work, what they have learned and how to improve.

  4. Student peer assessments are structured opportunities for students to provide and receive meaningful feedback on their work from their classmates. Engaging in peer assessment (also called peer review) fosters important skills for both the student doing the review and the one receiving the review.

    • Why Use Peer Assessment?
    • Considerations For Using Peer Assessment
    • Getting Started with Peer Assessment

    Peer assessment can: 1. Empower students to take responsibility for and manage their own learning. 2. Enable students to learn to assess and give others constructive feedback to develop lifelong assessment skills. 3. Enhance students' learning through knowledge diffusion and exchange of ideas. 4. Motivate students to engage with course material mor...

    Let students know the rationale for doing peer review. Explain the expectations and benefits of engaging in a peer review process.
    Consider having students evaluate anonymous assignments for more objective feedback.
    Be prepared to give feedback on students’ feedback to each other. Display some examples of feedback of varying quality and discuss which kind of feedback is useful and why.
    Give clear directions and time limits for in-class peer review sessions and set defined deadlines for out-of-class peer review assignments.
    Identify assignments or activities for which students might benefit from peer feedback.
    Consider breaking a larger assignment into smaller pieces and incorporating peer assessment opportunities at each stage. For example, assignment outline, first draft, second draft, etc.
    Design guidelines or  rubrics with clearly defined tasks for the reviewer.
    Introduce rubrics through learning exercises to ensure students have the ability to apply the rubric effectively.
  5. Dec 10, 2019 · Here, we present a meta-analysis (54 studies, k = 141) of experimental and quasi-experimental studies that evaluated the effect of peer assessment on academic performance in primary, secondary, or tertiary students across subjects and domains.

    • Kit S. Double, Joshua A. McGrane, Therese N. Hopfenbeck
    • 2020
  6. Peer assessment involves the review of a learners work by a fellow learner or group of learners.

  7. Peer-assessment works well when students are asked to apply learned content in a creative and constructive manner, such as an essay or a performance. Formative peer assessment can also be used to better prepare students for quizzes and exams as it incentivizes students to know the content well.