Peer assessment, also called self-assessment when students grade their own work, is a process in which students or their peers grade assignments or tests against a teacher's benchmarks. The practice is used both to save teachers time and to improve students' own understanding of course material as well as their metacognitive skills, and rubrics are often used alongside self- and peer-assessment to guide the grading.
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Core ClaimThe core claim behind peer assessment is metacognitive: grading a peer's work, or one's own, surfaces mistakes in a student's own thinking that the student can then correct in future assignments. 1 FAQs
What do students gain from grading their own work or a peer's?
Students see mistakes in their own thinking and can correct them later.
Through self-assessment and peer assessment, students are able to see mistakes in their thinking and can correct any problems in future assignments. This metacognitive benefit is one reason teachers use the practice, alongside the time it can save them.
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1. Wikipedia: Peer assessment
Wikimedia FoundationAdvantages section, Metacognitive subsection, first sentence
Through self- and peer-assessment students are able to see mistakes in their thinking and can correct any problems in future assignments.
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Peer assessment, or self-assessment, is a process whereby students or their peers grade assignments or tests based on a teacher's benchmarks.
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