Peer Assessment
Overview
Includes a broad range of activities where students actively engage in evaluating and providing feedback to their peers. Formative peer assessment involves feedback on drafts of work before the final product is submitted. Summative peer assessment includes the use of a rubric to assign grades to peers.
Peer assessment activities can have many benefits for student learning. During peer assessment activities, students engage in a robust communication process with each other focusing on performance and standards of assignments. These activities lend themselves to become more active participants in their own learning and several other benefits. Some of these include:
- enhancing student learning and developing key skills (personal responsibility, knowledge construction through feedback)
- developing a deeper understanding of the subject matter
- developing and strengthening critical thinking and reflection skills (Wanner & Palmer, 2018).
The following articles provide greater depth about peer assessment.
Falchikov, N., & Goldfinch, J. (2000). Student peer assessment in higher education: A meta-analysis comparing peer and teacher marks. Review of
Educational Research, 70(3), 287-322.
(2020). The role of self and peer assessment in Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1783526
(2018). Formative self-and peer assessment for improved student learning: the crucial factors of design, teacher participation and feedback, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(7), 1032-1047, DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2018.1427698