Answer to Question #280860 in Python for solokin

Question

Describe your experience so far with peer assessment of Programming Assignments.

• How do you feel about the aspect assessments and feedback you have received from your peers?
• How do you think your peers feel about the aspect assessments and feedback you provided them?

Answer 1

Self and peer assessment are important aspects of ‘assessment for learning’ practice. Assessing their own work or that of others can help students to develop their understanding of the Intended Learning Outcomes and the Assessment Criteria. Research has shown that learners make more progress when they are actively involved in their own learning and assessment.

Self and Peer Assessment will:

• Enhance students’ active engagement with their studies

• Increase the amount of feedback students receive

• Augment learning as peer feedback invariably requires explanation and justification

• Help students understand what is considered good work and why, thereby increasing their ability to achieve

Self-assessment “is the involvement of students in identifying standards and/ or criteria to apply to their work, and making judgments about the extent to which they have met these criteria and standards…..[it] means more than students grading their own work; it means involving them in the process of determining what is ‘good work’.” ¹ 

Peer Assessment is where “students use criteria and apply standards to the work of their peers in order to judge that work. Both self and peer assessment are “formative, in that it has beneficial effects on learning, but may also be summative, either in the sense of learners deciding that they have learned as much as they wished to do in a given area, or....it may contribute to the grades awarded to the students”