Over the last couple of weeks, I've seen several examples of effective peer assessment. The ability to self-assess and peer-assess are required for improvement. By studying their own work and the work of others, student learning accelerates and learning is much more efficient and effective than teacher-provided feedback.
Peer Assessment Technique 1
- Students complete an assignment or problem individually.
- Students then get into random or flexible groups of 3-4.
- Each student pass their work to the left and they take notes (either on the paper or itself, a sticky note or their own piece of paper. This could also be done digitally.)
- After everyone has reviewed each partner's work, they discuss differences.
- Mark-up stage: This can be done in a variety of ways: They can mark up their own. they can mark up the last one they were passed, they can work collaboratively to mark up one or they can recreate a master one.
- After completing the mark-up stage, encourage students to reflect on their learning by asking them questions like What were some decisions that were hard to make? What were some common errors that were made? What were things everyone did well? Were there some areas where you couldn't agree? How did you come to your decisions?
Peer Assessment Technique 2
- Students complete an assignment. This could be a worksheet, a writing sample, etc.
- The assignments are handed in and redistributed to students. Students do NOT know who is marking their work. If you are concerned about confidentiality: do not have students put their names on their original papers and instead use a code or some other secret word.
- Students then mark their peers' work using a key or teacher-modeled answers. Again, posting this online is a good option.
- Collect all the work and then hand it back to the original student.
- Provide students with an opportunity to check the checker's work and, more importantly, to see where they made their mistakes.
- After reviewing their original work, ask questions like those listed above in #6.
Using peer-assessment techniques like these benefits both the original doer and the assessor. It teaches students how to avoid mistakes, how to correct errors, and that improvement is always possible, building metacognitive skills and a growth mindset as well as teaching academic tasks.
What are some peer assessment strategies you use?
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