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www.schoolofeducators.com What benefits can you see emerging from using Peer and Self Assessment? What do you see as the likely pitfalls of Peer and Self Assessment? Have you tried any Peer and Self Assessment? What was the outcome? www.schoolofeducators.com Why bother with Peer and Self-Assessment? Pupils are more likely to make progress if they can understand what they are aiming for – the success criteria. Peer and Self-Assessment will help students to develop a deeper understanding of what makes a good piece of work - so they will be more able to achieve that level of work. www.schoolofeducators.com Why bother with Peer and Self-Assessment? Peer Assessment will help students to work collaboratively and share ideas. These skills are valuable in their own right, but they also help students to develop a deeper understanding of a topic or concept. www.schoolofeducators.com Why bother with Peer and Self-Assessment? Self-Assessment will help students to develop a sense of independence and self-evaluation. Peer assessment allows students to talk on their own level and discuss work in a way that they understand. This type of feedback can be easier to grasp and act upon than advice offered by an adult. Peer assessment can save teacher time by lightening the assessment workload. www.schoolofeducators.com Laying the Foundations: Pupils do overnight. not become The development assessment takes patience. self-evaluative of peer and selftime, planning and To develop an effective scheme of peer and self- assessment the following need to be in place: www.schoolofeducators.com Laying the Foundations: Learning objectives and the success criteria must be made explicit and transparent to pupils. This will help to ensure that pupils are able to identify when they have met some or all of the success criteria. www.schoolofeducators.com Laying the Foundations: Sharing learning objectives and success criteria must be a regular feature of lessons and become an integral part of reviewing learning rather than a ‘bolt-on’ activity. www.schoolofeducators.com Laying the Foundations: Students need to be shown what good work looks like. They then need to be shown why it is good. Then they need to shown how to achieve a similar standard. www.schoolofeducators.com Laying the Foundations: Pupils need to be taught the skills of collaboration in peer assessment. Students will not simply collaborate and assess each other in a compassionate and constructive fashion. It is a skill to be developed and nurtured. www.schoolofeducators.com Laying the Foundations: In order to exemplify and explain the above, teachers have to be effective modellers who can show their students what good work looks like, how to produce such work and how to evaluate and feed back on pieces of work in an independent and effective fashion. www.schoolofeducators.com In short, to develop peer and self assessment in the classroom, teachers will need to: – plan peer and self assessment opportunities in lessons – train pupils over time to assess their own work and the work of others – explain the learning objectives and success criteria for each task – frequently and consistently encourage pupils’ selfreflection on their learning – guide pupils to identify their next steps. www.schoolofeducators.com A Suggested Teaching Sequence Set a Clear Success Criteria for a piece of work: e.g. the correct layout for an experiment write up in science. Teacher should explicitly model how to produce the work. Students produce the work. Either Peer or Self Assessment takes place against success criteria. www.schoolofeducators.com Success Ladders Response partners Using Markschemes Annotating work Using samples of student work Using “Time Out” During a Lesson. Block Reviews www.schoolofeducators.com Possible Next Steps: Make use of some of the suggestions given in this booklet Identify some opportunities for peer and self-assessment Make peer and self-assessment an item on a Faculty or Departmental Meeting Set peer and self-assessment as a PMR target Make peer and self-assessment a focus of a coaching cycle Arrange to observe a lesson with peer and selfassessment as a focus Arrange for some mentoring in peer and self-assessment www.schoolofeducators.com