Reflections on peer assessment by Teacher Academy

Milena Ignjatova

mmiilleennaa — 2016-06-26 22:36:27 UTC

The formative assessment can be made with self-assessment and group assessment. Both of the ways are very productive since students can learn while assessing their own work and work of others. It is very similar with our P2P assessments.

Rosa Gaspar/Portugal

luisasgaspar67 — 2016-06-26 22:52:53 UTC

Peer assessent:
. It enables students to take responsibility for their learning and positions the assessment task as being for learning.

. It allows students to engage in critical self-reflection on their own learning, that is an essential aspect of their academic and personal development.
. It provides explicit opportunities for students to reflect on their presentations, essays and problem sets, and allows them to critically engage with their work, identifying strengths as well as areas for further development.

Valentina Petrova, Skopje

Nastavnickata — 2016-06-26 23:02:39 UTC

Peer assessment is very common in my classroom. I always emphasize that assessing peers is with the purpose of helping peers to work/create/achieve more and by asking questions we get ideas ourselves. I often make notes while students present their work, so I always advise my students to do so too, so that they don't forget some important remark. Other times I ask students to swap their notebooks and after reading their peer's work, they should write a comment regarding: Language, Structure, Character building, Setting, Plot, but they have to elaborate, the reviewed peer shouldn't accept 'good' as a comment/review.

And that's why I'm really annoyed I didn't get 2 reviews for all the P2P activities. (so far there were 4 activities and I only have 4 reviews).

António Faria, Portugal

a_nunofaria — 2016-06-26 23:28:59 UTC

This past year on my Biology and Geology class students worked on pairs to resolve past exams and peer assessed them working together to achieve the complete answers. This was a great way to improve student’s self-confidence but also to show them they could have success and improve grades.

Fernanda Vicente, Portugal

fernandavicente — 2016-06-26 23:38:17 UTC

Sometimes I ask my students to solve alone some exercices. Then when they have finished this task, I ask them to join some other students and discuss their solutions to improve each other work. I realize they improve their works...
So peer assessment can promote:
awareness of the strong and weak point of the wooks, improvement of each woork, empower students as learners.

Marija, Croatia

marija_fg — 2016-06-27 01:07:07 UTC

I sometimes use P2P activity in my class: students among eachother give their reviews and feedbacks on eachother work. It is a great method, and students appear to be very good at spotting strong/weak sides of their peer's task..

Olga Keramida/Greece

olkeramida — 2016-06-27 03:27:29 UTC

In kindergarten we use to make peer assessment by discussing with the team about their work. Questions such as:
what I liked most ,
what you consider important when you made it,
what procedure did you follow,
what would you change if you remake it.

Arvanitidou Marianthi - Greece

1canislupus22 — 2016-06-27 04:19:40 UTC

One-minute Papers

The teacher ends class a few minutes early and asks one or two questions that students answer, on index cards or notebook paper, and hand in. Questions often asked are, “What were the main points of today’s class?” or “What point or example in today’s lecture would you like to see reviewed or clarified?” Even in a large class, reading through student responses takes relatively little time. At the next class session, teachers can address questions or problems students have raised.
Studies of Time Spent Learning
This technique asks students to estimate, check, document, and reflect on how well they use study time. Using one assignment or activity, students estimate how much time it should take to finish the task and then monitor themselves as they complete the assignment

Martina Toso, Italy

tosomartina — 2016-06-27 05:04:20 UTC

This assessment requires great maturity of students who judge to help and improve and not to underestimate classmates. They have to be trained to do this. Sometimes they use their marks to establish a sort of "ranking" of the best. On the contrary this method would encourage real help and collaboration for everyone's good.

Pefkoula Stagia, Greece

pstagia — 2016-06-27 05:06:16 UTC

When students are engaged in peer assessment for the first time they feel quite insecure and uncomfortable. But in the procedure they feel very responsible and they are surprisingly passionate, creative and hardworking.

AnaŽČ

anaznidarec — 2016-06-27 05:29:56 UTC

Peer assessment have many benefits. It develops, engage, build and provides structure! That is my experience and I like to be involved in it ... and that is what I try to give to my students too!

Pavel, Lithuania

stefanovic_pavel — 2016-06-27 06:31:05 UTC

I am implementing the peer assessment in the end of some PBL. When a students have to present their own created presentation, the other classmates can ask the questions (the question should be clear and just about work). Also they can give some advices – to say good and a bad aspects of the work.

Florin Balotescu, OGIS, Romania, @FBalotescu

2016-06-27 06:50:04 UTC

The peer assessment is always useful, but it should be carefully conducted, as it may contain important subjectivity issues. If we use it and the peer reviewers are the students, then they should get specific criteria.

2016-06-27 07:37:32 UTC

Cinzia Italy
The formative assessment can be made with self-assessment and group assessment. Both of the ways are very productive since students can learn while assessing their own work and work of others.

Rosanna G - Italy

rosannagranata1978 — 2016-06-27 07:38:40 UTC

Peer requires maturity. The teacher's task must be to supervisor and should allow kids to express constructive opinions, in order to improve the performance of the assessed children but also those who carry out assessment. And 'an enriching work for all, it pushes you to consider situations and procedures that you had not thought of before.

Michela A. (Italy)

2016-06-27 07:52:50 UTC

Peer-assessment refers to student assessment of other studens. It requires maturity.To give effective, valid and reliable feedback to fellow learners, students need clear guidelines, training on assessment criteria and scoring rules, and practice with examples. I try to improve this form of assessnetee but sometimes students don't appreciate and prefer the traditional one.

Juhani Pölönen

juhani_polonen — 2016-06-27 08:04:03 UTC

Students first searches information independently and then present their findings to group. For students there is also reserved time to discuss and assess the issues raised by others.

Chantal, France

querrienc — 2016-06-27 08:11:46 UTC

The challenge in making students work with PBL is getting sure that they will be involved in the group work and not tempted to have fun and chat (that is the risk when they are left on their own, self-driven, even with guidelines, they tend not to respect the working rules). So, it is important to oblige them obtain a work result whatever the stage they really reach. This is why I would be tempted to use, in all stages of the project process, self assessment or peer assessment - what is better because there will be an external look at a student's work from his peer, a more sincere and trustful way of assessing and so no tendency to assess anyhow

Snezhana, Bulgaria

s_tzonkova — 2016-06-27 08:26:31 UTC

PeerAssessment is one more thing which should be "taught" - I mean that we, teachers, should build up a peer-assessment culture or skill as there are some "traps" which should be avoided: 1. Negative attitude - when students /adults work in groups, they tend to develop a competitive spirit which could go a bit too far and instead of having a peer review there could be a "peer sneer"; 2. Being nice whatever - instead of providing a constructive peer review, the reviewer just gives praise regardless of their personal opinion just because they are afraid how their advice would be accepted; 3. Say somethingand get over with it - a neutral review, given even without reading the other people'swork / I have experienced this in one of the online cources/.
We also have to teach our students , and even ourselves, how to accept peer reviews. The most dangerous trap is to take it as personal criticism.

Luisa

luisabosio — 2016-06-27 08:37:29 UTC

To express the assessment, the student must make sure to master the subject matter of the proceedings, collect the information needed to evaluate and reconstruct the mode of thought that may have led his companion to output processed or the procedure followed; the subsequent sharing of the results allows both (evaluator / s and evaluated) to rebuild the sense of proof, formalizing the topic and investigate the reasons of the evaluation judgment.
interesting variants are represented by the comparison of the evaluation of the self-assessment expressed by his colleague on themselves and on their performance or the teacher's evaluation, and any dall'argomentare scostament

Maria Nikolova

maria_n_ss — 2016-06-27 08:46:17 UTC

I take advantage of the peer assessment in the end of some PBL. When students present their works the other classmates ask the questions and give some advices. In another cases students make P2P inspection of their work. When they compete in teams teacher appoint jury from students.

Vasiliki Psaridou

psaridou — 2016-06-27 08:53:26 UTC

I think that one of my few peer assessment as someone participating in peer assessment type activities was done during the previous peer assessment here in PBL (3.4.). I had written something that wasn't written properly and one of my peer evaluators mentioned that . So I rewrite it in order to become more clear and I would like to thank him(or her, I am not sure) for that

Daniela Pagnini

daniela_pagnini — 2016-06-27 08:56:44 UTC

In my daily professional experience I try to apply the technic of peers’ assessment, but it is not easy to convince my students that it is not a learning activity directly followed by a final mark. In fact they often think that these process steps may penalize their summative assessment marks. I am sure that the contents and examples gave by the videos will help me enhance my students’ collaboration.

Akay YÜKSEL, TURKEY

2016-06-27 09:00:32 UTC

To test students critical thinking about these issues and to assist them in the subjects they learn. It's not only an evaluation peer evaluation format, at the same time, some behaviors and skills is a process that is applied to students. For this reason, peer evaluation and assessment phase can be perceived both as an element of the content of the educational process. Accordingly, the application for the purposes of peer assessment in the classroom, teachers are as follows:
Peer assessment provides an assessment of accurate and current although
reliability, equality, relationships, affects the quality of results. Because they are devoid of the ability to make objective assessments of students, especially in the beginning, the students may be more subjective opinions.

Eleftheria Karagiorgou, Greece

kareri — 2016-06-27 09:08:09 UTC

Very good material

Michelle, Ireland

2016-06-27 09:41:26 UTC

My experience with peer assessment has been a positive one so far. Students are more engaged and using their initiative when working with their peers.

Stavroula Lada, Greece

pde4424 — 2016-06-27 09:41:45 UTC

Peer assessment involves students taking responsibility for assessing the work of their peers against set criteria. They can be engaged in providing feedback to their peers, summative grades (moderated by the teacher), or a combination of the two. It's a powerful way for the students to act as the 'assessor' and to gain an opportunity to better understand assessment criteria. Students can be trusted in assessing their peers when they are engaged with assessment criteria. I have seen it in action with my 6th graders and in the beginning I was amazed by the accuracy of their notes and prompts to their classmates. They were polite but also true and genuine with the positive and negative aspects of their assessment. I was only monitoring and moderating the discussion. I hope I can do the same with my 1st graders this year :-)

Uğur TÜRK, TURKEY

ugurogretmen — 2016-06-27 09:44:29 UTC

Individual peer review by their colleagues the work they are doing is evaluated according to specific measures within the framework of their own perspective is a process.

Izaskun Salazar

2016-06-27 09:59:59 UTC

Peers assessment help students to respect others opinions and give their opinion in a positive way. It reinforces the students confidence to participate and listen others opinionsThat´s definitely going to work better than the teacher's assessment.

MARIA GIUSEPPA SALLEMI, ITALY

2016-06-27 10:01:16 UTC

Learning by learning, meta-cognitive process is very useful.
In fact the formative assessment when the kids complete the peer assessment process gives feedback useful at the kids they learn much power their learning when they revise their works. The feedback is useful to the teacher too, she can improve own approach when the children learn.She can monitors the progress an she receives useful feedback.

Olgica, Serbia

olgicaspasojevic — 2016-06-27 10:10:28 UTC

Peer assesment activities on this course gave me many ideas how to integrate similar activities to my classes.

Luigi Grifone, Italy

2016-06-27 10:22:45 UTC

Peer assessment is a powerful way to progress in learning and in teaching. The experience with this course is new to me, but I really like the opportunity of assessing and being assessed by colleagues. I feel responsible for what I write and I think it's really helpful to better understand what I'm doing and how I'm working.

Josie, Scotland

2016-06-27 10:44:35 UTC

Participating in peer assessment exercises has helped me progress as a teacher and learn to take criticism and learn from others' techniques

Višnja vasiljević, Serbia

nastavnicavisnja — 2016-06-27 10:45:50 UTC

Just like Olgica, I really enjoyed giving and receiveing my peers reviews, but I`m sorry I wasn`t familiar with the leaders before. I will certainly try to include it in my plan for the next year.

Claudia, Rome

2016-06-27 10:48:29 UTC

it is not easy to peer assess somebody else's work. What are received was sometimes a bit hurried, but in general it was a positive impression to get them

Besbes zied

zbesbes — 2016-06-27 10:51:05 UTC

it is not easy to find the best practice to evaluate students... always they have to learn and give us what they have learned...without added idea so .. i will try to use peer assessment

ADINA , Arad, Romania

avacovici — 2016-06-27 10:57:59 UTC

Peer assessment leads to brainstorming and improvement. New ideas should be exploited further on.
It is a collaborative tool

Monica Chifor

2016-06-27 11:00:30 UTC

I don't do peer assessment in my classes but I am going to. Instead I do self assessment and I noticed that students in general tend to be quite objective about their work and see their strengths and weaknesses very easily.

Vicky Archondi, Greece

vicky_archondi — 2016-06-27 11:08:48 UTC

I use a variety of assessments methods to check my students' progress ,peer assessment being one of them. I usually employ it after a writing activity and a short quiz on either vocabulary or grammar. To be honest, it wasn't easy for me to convince my students to exercise it because they thought that evaluation was strictly my job . As the time passed by and they got more trained and accustomed in it,they are really looking forward to it because as they say....it makes them more responsible and more autonomous as learners.

Sonia Sáez, Spain

2016-06-27 11:21:28 UTC

peer assessment is necessary to improve our teacing-practice methodology which affects our students academic results

Rania, Greece

raniabek — 2016-06-27 11:25:17 UTC

Peer assessment can be a very important part of a lesson as well as improving learners' attitude towards the task and each other. It makes them more mature and responsible! Yet, that requires time and training as their first reactions are usually based on the relationships they have with specific learners!

Elisabetta Malgoni, Italy

2016-06-27 11:33:54 UTC

Children have to learn to assess their own work and the work of other classmates developping an appropriate language. It's not an easy process and it need the collaboration of teachers. The teacher infact has to encourage children's self reflection on their learning, guiding them to identify the next steps. For exemple in my Learning Design I can have peer assessment while chidren realize a bread recipe but also during the meeting with the baker. In this last case there is a double discussion: with teacher and with pupils. Peer assessment should be used every time it's necessary and at the end of the project as means of final selfassessment. In this case the teacher can develop a metacognitive attitude in his student giving them some exercise, for exemple "You have three minutes to identify two places where you think you have done this well and read then to your partner" or "You have five minutes to find one place where you could improve. Write your improvement at the bottom of your work". The habit of selfassessment and peer assessment is not very known or used. It's difficult too. Another useful exercise can be "Think, pair, share" that can be used in every phase of my PBL. In general cooperative working and cooperative learning allow student to have self and peer assessment. The experience of peer tutoring can be an experience of self and peer assessment at the beginning of your own carreer and at the beginning of a new job too. I believe in the importance of collaboration to improve. I'm aware of its difficulty too. In the video the teacher talks about the ladder of feedback. It's an interesting tool but I think that it's hard to use with very young children. It's a sort of challenge, that allow you to think of your job in a different way.

Vilija, Lithuania

2016-06-27 11:39:25 UTC

I use peer assessment after writing a story or an essay, after presentations of different projects or presenting a topic. Students have to evaluate each other according to the given criteria.

Alina Popa Romania

popalina21 — 2016-06-27 12:06:24 UTC

Just a few times I have used peer assesments in class. But after this course I cansay that is so constructive and usefull in evaluating yourself on a level between others, learning continuously, and riching other points of view,other perceptions and ideas. Also it alignes , clasifying, showing in what measure the students achieved to the standards objectives. Peer assesment (as in this course) were so usefull to consolidate the knowledge, skills and abilities by reviewing: what we have to do....where we achieved.

Olga Passalidou, Kozani, Greece

2016-06-27 12:08:43 UTC

I have participated in peer-assessed seminars before so peer assessment is nothing new to me. I quite enjoy it, but I do think you should have clear criteria of what to assess on and try to think of how to help the person being reviewed, not just to be nice. I do encourage my students to assess their peers, but it does require careful organisation and a firm grip, else it can end to unhelpful remarks and ridicule.

Marcela, Italy

2016-06-27 12:17:53 UTC

I use per assessment in my class and it is very useful for students to confront, to reflect and improve their competences.

Reda, Lithuania

redaklimanskiene — 2016-06-27 12:21:13 UTC

We sometimes have a chance to analyse our colleagues work especially when they are acquiring a higher qualification. Definitely, we criteria that help us to remain objective. We have a chance not only to assess others' works, but also to learn from them and improve in our work.

Saudade, Portugal

saudaderoxo — 2016-06-27 12:26:29 UTC

Peer assessment helps students to develop and realize their own learning.
On the other hand, help teachers to improve their monitoring in some areas where students have more questions or difficulties and improve their own way to assess.

Irina Vasilescu

2016-06-27 12:31:23 UTC

I have used peer assessment before with my students, especially during project work, and I definitely agree it benefits both the assessed and the assessor.

Cornelia Melcu

2016-06-27 12:43:39 UTC

Peer assessment is great for giving the students more confidence and motivate them I work with primary school students and I use it quite often even in the first classes (6-8 years old) it is a big challenge.

Anthi, Greece

2016-06-27 12:47:14 UTC

I used peer assessment while I was doing my post graduate diploma. In fact in this program we formed groups of 4 persons and each group had to assess the work of another group. In addition the member of each group had to access the other members of the group as to their contribution to the final product. In this way participation in the group work of all the group members was reassured.
I also used peer assessment as a teacher in my classroom. The theme was the construction of a blog in groups of 2-3 persons. Each group had to assess the blog of another group using a set of criteria. Students were asked in each case to justify their assessment. Ι think that justification of an opinion is the key for doing serious assessment.

Marilia, PT

2016-06-27 12:50:36 UTC

I think peer assessment is very effective, because students can learn a lot with each other. They use the same language, they are at the same level, thinking of maturity, and sometimes this makes them understand their mates better. Besides, they feel more comfortable talking with their peers about their questions.

Anne-Sophie Compiègne

annesophie_compiegne — 2016-06-27 13:14:12 UTC

I've already experienced peer assessment and I feared the students wouldn't be objective in their assessment. I'm working with teenagers and I have noticed that when they have been given or better when they have built an assessment grid, they are usually objective. The fact they have to assess helps them understand better what is expected from them.

Sabina, Italy

sabina_giolo — 2016-06-27 13:17:04 UTC

Peer assessment is a best experience to do. It devolops the learnig not only our students, but also of the teachers. Because in this process the children learn to think, to collaborate, to respect other people's opinion and they accept the mistake.
I think that the next year I'll start to use peer assessment with my very young students. ?

Ève, France

2016-06-27 13:18:30 UTC

I must admit I hardly ever implement peer assessment because most of the time people find it difficult to assess someone else's work because they don't want to hurt their friends'feelings. I think we need to rethink assessment for our students. My students have often suffered from negative assessments in the past and when they are criticized even if the critics are meant to improve themselves, they will tend to be discouraged. Besides they tend to accept critics from the teacher more than from their fellow students. It's a new approach to assessment really.

Zuzana, Slovakia

2016-06-27 13:20:34 UTC

At the beginning, peer assessment was for my students something strange :-) - they always thought it is just a kind of summative assessment leading to a particular mark. So I had to teach them how to use the peer assessment in order to improve their own skills and nowadays they enjoy it :-)

Asun Ara, Spain

2016-06-27 13:26:57 UTC

The best way to learn is peer assessment. When a person has the responsibility to assess the other's work, that reviewer should be effective and look for the information that he or she doesn't know. Moreover, peer assessment makes us learn new things. We always learn from good and from bad things, so this is a great way to learn. I have learned a lot while doing my colleagues' peer assessment because I have discover new ideas for both my learning design and my leaning diary.

Eleonora, Italy

eleonora_mauriello19 — 2016-06-27 13:37:41 UTC

I don't have much peer-assessment in my classes but, after watching the videos, I want to change this! I really like the Ladder of Feedback, as it helps assessing your peers without judging them, but being constructive.
I experienced peer assessment in one of my training courses: I think it's something useful, but only if both parts really want to improve... if you get a superficial feedback, lacking a constructive suggestion... things could be quite disappointing!

Irini Pougounia, Greece

pougounia — 2016-06-27 13:43:16 UTC

Following my experience on peer assessment of the learning design we have worked on, I realised that you may get a different perspective which you may have not even thought of. Your work is enriched and the outcome more impressive!

Maria Nica Italy

mariellanica — 2016-06-27 13:45:25 UTC

I practice peer assessment for 10 years following a my intuitive idea! I try it very efficacy because when students listen eachothers they can learn their difficulties and resolve them togethers.

Giedre, Lithuania

giespastas — 2016-06-27 13:45:51 UTC

I reflect with students mostly completed subject or during the repetition.

peggy stefanidou greece

pegstefan — 2016-06-27 13:58:25 UTC

Although i perfectly understand the value of peer assessment, unfortunately i don' t have much peer assessment in my classes. I work in an upper secondary school and my big fear is: will I be able to finish my vast syllabus which is very much exam-oriented) on time??? How can i manage to carry on with my very rigid and vast curriculum and at the same time be innovative and creative etc? I always try to do my best in order to combine everything....but i don' t manage to be a really good teacher...

Nikoudis Nikolaos Greece

2016-06-27 14:02:03 UTC

Excellent All.

Vasiliki Dogani, Greece I like peer assessment. It is true that I tried and student get excited.

2016-06-27 14:02:35 UTC

Massimo Soranzio, Italy

massimosoranzio — 2016-06-27 14:13:46 UTC

Peer assessment is something I must admit I have only used sporadically in class so far, but it has always proved valid, and even motivating for students. I am glad of this opportunity to learn and reflect more about it on this occasion, because I am planning to make it systematic as of the next school year. Personally, I have had some experience of peer reviewing participating in MOOCs before this one, especially on Coursera - there it is not always constructive, as some peers diabolically enjoy destroying other people's works with incredibly harsh reviews... I have been collaborating as a Community TA on one of these courses for a few years, and my colleagues and I have often had to intervene to reassure students and to invite reviewers to follow the rubric and to try and be more constructive... Relating this experience to using peer review in class, I can say it can be extremely useful to teach students how they can have a constructive approach, outlining what is good and what can be improved, not what is bad -- which is an ability that may come in really handy in real life!

Ingrida

2016-06-27 14:31:01 UTC

Peer assessment isn't used as much as self-assessment in my class, but still I try to do it as I see the necessity of it. Mainly I use it for reflecting on peer's task, giving some feedback. Sometimes it is oral but mainly it is written.

Barbara Licciulli

barbarali — 2016-06-27 14:37:11 UTC

The peer review was in this course something nice and enriching. The same is true for students, because in this way they do not feel judged in a query. Sometimes the teacher's judgment is heavier than that of peers. Maybe you get the same result, but the valuation of peers is always seen more as something that can serve to improvements to their operations and not just a positive or negative vote

Dianne, netherlands

essersdianne — 2016-06-27 14:43:32 UTC

I have experienced peer assessment in this course as an enrichment as well, i think i don't use this enough in class, i tried to let the children asses each others work with the same criteria not to tell whats wrong but give a positive feedback and i would like to implement this more also among the the students. It serves to improve your work

Grazia Paladino, Italy

graziampl — 2016-06-27 14:54:20 UTC

The peer review is a powerful way to reflection on their work. It allows (as it has been for us participating teachers to this MOOC) to improve from mistakes and to recognize in it a means to improve in the future

Patrizia Brion, Italy

patrizia_brion — 2016-06-27 14:59:34 UTC

I have experienced peer assessment in this course as an enrichment as well.

Peer assessment is a best experience to do because in this process the children learn to think, to collaborate, to respect other people's opinion and they accept the mistake.

Juanlusz

juanlusz — 2016-06-27 15:06:03 UTC

Engagement, patience, time, full attention and interest in assessing your peer is key.

Natalia, Greece

natdrak — 2016-06-27 15:14:26 UTC

peer assesment can prove to be extremely helpful, however it requires that all peers are committed and responsible, otherwise it could let people down

Ispir Iuliana, Romania

ispiriuliana — 2016-06-27 15:20:29 UTC

Children are the best assessment tool. We, teachers, develop an assessment at this age, always positive. Where intervene wrong with encouragement - could be better; If you use another color a drawing was most successful, or should not be upset that you did wrong today, together we'll learn and respond better tomorrow. When assessing comes from colleagues do not mind. And it is right for them. I see them constantly as they play give the teacher when the child makes a mistake, it corrects the teacher-child less bland than us and colleague does not mind. I find the best way to use Peer.

Floripes Almeida, Portugal

floripes_almeida — 2016-06-27 15:29:36 UTC

When students know what peer assessment is and how to do it, then it may be a powerful tool to guarantee an effective learning process.

I loved to participate in peer assessment on this course. It was very good to read what other teachers had to say about my learning designer and, later, to improve my work, based on my peer’s evaluation. I think this is a very good way to be evaluated.

When I organize peer assessment activities with my students, they are usually excited with this kind of activity. They see themselves as the teacher! They always try to give their best, although some students still don’t understand what this assessment means. Some of them still look at this activity as a funny moment. But, generally speaking, most students can assess their friends. I usually use assessment grids, with the items they must assess and they just have to choose the best option and put a cross (X).

Nadya, Bulgaria

innovator68 — 2016-06-27 15:39:55 UTC

In my daily work I try to implement the technic of peers’ assessment and usually I emphasize the assessing peers as a purpose of helping peers to create, improve and achieve more skills.

When the students present their own presentation, the others can ask the questions, give the ideas and discuss them.

I have practised peer assessment recently following some certain rules. For example, the students have to be positive, more constructive - what they can improve. ..

Sara Carli

2016-06-27 16:08:23 UTC

I always ask my collegues to collaborate and peer review each other's work. With my students I sometimes propose to study together in class, dividing the text and finding the key words and building a map and also to repeat together. I will surely implement the use of peer assessment in my classroom, absolutely using the ladder of feedback.

Maria A., Greece

2016-06-27 16:08:42 UTC

Thanks for all the useful information about peer assessment! Next school year I 'll try to implement what I 've learnt on this course.

Isabel Graça - Portugal

isamg — 2016-06-27 16:12:58 UTC

As I was reviewing my colleagues in P2P in this PBL Course, I realized how easy it seemed to be making suggestions to do better, regarding the goal. However, I also realized that having the same goals for me, I sometimes didn’t look at my work with the “same” eyes; after I received some P2P from my reviewers I thought “Why didn’t I saw this”? In another and, as a teacher, I need to take some more steps ahead; with all this precious help I will certainly succeed.

Maria Jacinto

luisad741 — 2016-06-27 16:33:12 UTC

I usually use peer assessement when there is an oral presentation of a book and students usually like to do that.
I found out that here in this course I enjoyed a lot my colleages ideas about my work. Next I will try to use it more often.

Roberta, Italy

r_gramenzi — 2016-06-27 17:15:50 UTC

I usually use peer assessment and self-assessment in my classes. Students provide feedback to each other, focusing on what worked and what didn't work, the strong and weak point, what could be done better and so on. I think that students are more willing to change and to revise their own work when that receive a feedback from classmates. Self-assessment is very useful to develop metacognition, which is the base of a meaningful and deep learning.

Matthias, Switzerland

mattgig — 2016-06-27 17:16:24 UTC

In peer assessment it is vital that you as a teacher know exactly what you want to be assessed and it is also important that students understand, what you want them to do. A good way is to give students an opportunity to train their assessment skills by letting them assess a piece of work you as a teacher have already assessed. When students compare their results to your result or the ones of their peers they better understand where differences in assessment occurred and where further clarification is needed.

Triantafyllia/Greece

sivakatr — 2016-06-27 17:18:57 UTC

In peer assessment we know others people opinion and we become better.

Francesca Lovece, Italy

flovece — 2016-06-27 17:25:29 UTC

I confess: this course is my first experience of peer assessment. I promise to try immediately, on my reparatory courses.

Carmelo S. Benfante Picogna, Italy

salben — 2016-06-27 17:39:17 UTC

I have already participated in a large number of online and in presence training courses in which peer assessment was part of the process. I find this activity very interesting and practical training and myself have inserted itas part of training courses in which I played the role of trainer and also with my students as part of cooperative and collaborative learning.

Assessment of students

maria_n_ss — 2016-06-27 18:01:59 UTC

Soon I was lead "World café" in our school - Discussion "We and the School". One of questions was: What we want to be our teachers?
Students answers was very useful for me, for our Head master and for our English teacher who joined us.
Students defined those wishes for their relations with teachers:
friendship
informal relations
using IT
using illustrate lessons
lessons outside of classroom
lead extracurricular activities (drama, dances, photography, sports)
younger
gives knowledges for life
consults and individual work
to be good people
not screaming
assistance in resolving conflicts
exacting
protection
laughing
I haven't more coments.This means that something is missing...
Maria Nikolova, Bulgaria

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2016-06-27 18:06:14 UTC

Peer assessment involves observation and it is a way of self-development and reflection. Students improve critical thinking and are able to make suggestions.

BrunoFerreira20

here3030 — 2016-06-27 18:10:06 UTC

My experience its a bit like the one we are doing in this course. We share works made by students and analyse them, and then we do some discussion/reflection about the results and ways to improve them.

Valentina, Bulgaria

valia_tr — 2016-06-27 18:16:04 UTC

I have already participated in few online courses and eTwinning project ( MeTr) in which peer assessment was part of the process. I find this activity very interesting and give helpful feedback.

Rosaria Calabria

2016-06-27 18:26:54 UTC

I like using peer assessment in my class. I think it's very important that children learnt how to evaluate themselves and their classmates. This bring children to be more conscoius of their potentialities and their difficulties.

Andreas, Germany

MrRosst — 2016-06-27 18:48:48 UTC

Besides self-assessment I have also used group assessment: I gave them a number of points based on my observation during the working process (e.g. 5 students - 40 points out of total of 50 possible points). Then they had to agree in the group how to distribute the points among themselves based on their individual participation and engagement. This acted out well although I also thought about fights within the group beforehand. So I have to say that the students acted in a very social way.

Saskia Michielsen, Belgium

saskiamichielsen — 2016-06-27 18:55:10 UTC

I think peer assessment is a powerful tool but you cannot use it in each class. I noticed in this PBL course that I was disappointed when feedback was only 'congrats, you did a good job'. I wanted to know what I did well and how I could improve it.

Anne Marie Ireland

annemarie6 — 2016-06-27 18:56:35 UTC

Peer assessment is great but it is important to have criteria for assessment so pupils know 'What a good one like WAGOL'.

Vania (Italy)

2016-06-27 19:08:25 UTC

I think peers assessment is a good tool that encourages student involvement and responsibility. At the same time, it encourages students to reflect on their role and contribution to the process of the group work. However, there are also some disadvantages that teachers have to monitor: students may be reluctant to make judgements regarding their peers and generally they have a tendency to award everyone the same mark.

Christothea/Greece

2016-06-27 19:11:23 UTC

As a participant in the peer assessment in this course I received warm and reassuring comments on my work by which I realised I was on the right path. When reviewing my peers on the same tasks I had the chance to see aspects that I hadn’t thought about and get new ideas. Involving students in peer assessment will make them more mature, responsible, independent and motivated. My students have been involved in peer assessment by giving feedback to their peers work. They loved that. I have to say, though, that students have to be trained to do this because they can get really tough sometimes as Professor Dylan Williams mentioned in the video.

Lorenza, Italy

pini — 2016-06-27 19:28:58 UTC

Peer assessment is more then the assessment of students' work by other students of equal status: peer assessment is a powerful meta-cognitive tool.

Emiliana Rufo, Italy

emiliana_rufo — 2016-06-27 19:33:16 UTC

I use peer assessment with my students. I think in peer assessment students can reflect on their work and can do better. They generate kind, faithful and effective feedback by helping each others. It gives students much power as learners. Students feel part of the learning process.

Rosa Crispino, Italy

2016-06-27 19:37:31 UTC

This is the first time I partecipate to this type of course and it's also the first time to be involved in a peer assessment activities. The comments I have received, have given me lots to think and I have reflected on my way to teach. In my school we speak a lot about assessment, but the children don't take part of this process, Instead they are very important in the learning process because they are more involved in it. In the next school year I'll text this new experience

Filomena Montella, Italy

2016-06-27 19:47:16 UTC

I use peer assessment with my adult students. I think that this methodology is very usefull to reflect on my "modus operandi".

Dilek Erdağ Bek

erdag1 — 2016-06-27 19:56:21 UTC

As a participant in this course, I like being assessed. This is my first international online course. I really believe that I'm learning, sharing and searching. I think reviews can improve our works. By this way we preoccupy on how to do, what to do. Only statements like this "It's good, interesting, etc." don't work. Everything should be clear and based on criteria. As my classes are a bit crowded, peer assessment mostly works than the others. First of all, criteria on how to assess should be clear. Students should understand what is expected, in what way they can assess during the process. Not being graded is an element which relieves them. They like it.

Luljeta Koçi (Albania)

2016-06-27 20:05:12 UTC

In my routine teaching I often use the peer assessment, improving critical thinking and honest evaluation, in my students.

Filomena Montella, Italy.

2016-06-27 20:11:02 UTC

I always use the peer assessment

Neus, Mallorca

nmajoral — 2016-06-27 20:14:26 UTC

I must admit that I do not always use peer assessment, but I do it as much as I can. They love it. Sometimes we use rubrics but others we don't.

Maria Cristina Rocha, Portugal

mcrisroch — 2016-06-27 20:19:39 UTC

I worked together with several colleagues from etwinning labs and we did peer assessment through the formation time.
At school I don't do it as often as I would like to. In pass, while I worked with special needed students and as a libraian teacher I did P2P assessments during some projects of recording readings. Students used to sit 3 in a laptop and while one was reading loud, the second one was the "radio technician, using audacity) and the third was listening and giving the feedback for improvments. Peer assessment allowed children to get better following the suggestions from their colleagues. I hope I can apply several suggestions I just learn here at the course as soon as possible.

Cecilia Cantizano

maricecicanti — 2016-06-27 20:42:56 UTC

With small children I find it hard to use peer assessment as they are still very sensible to negative feedback. I try to help them learn to b positive when giving opinions about other´s work. I like using this video as example of positive feedback.

Maria Libera Di Florio, Italy

mliberadfl — 2016-06-27 20:47:13 UTC

In PBL course experience I'm appreciating a lot peer assessments for the opportunity of comparing several way of teaching. It's a costructive interaction between teachers from different countries useful to improve our own teaching method and different points of view. Rarely I use peer assessment with my students, but I'll try to introduce it in daily lesson in next future

TIZIANA ANGIOLINI ITALY

Tizianateacher — 2016-06-27 20:51:29 UTC

I have experienced peer assessment in many Moocs and I must confess that with courses like this one it has been positive while with other Moocs I was not given positive support or people did not always follow the grid... a lot of people complained in the past.
As a teacher I have used peer assessment in group presentations and I must say that I made a mistake as I did not agree on the way the students were assessed. They did not work well and if we had built the grids they would have understood how grids work. Now I present grids before they start assessing other people's tasks and I explain why I chose some items. Usually my students provide positive feedback while and after doing a task. Peer assessment must be taught and shared but it can change the learning situation. Some years ago I was in Ireland and I was working with other teachers and most of
the feedback was based on peer evaluation. It worked well.

ANNA BORMIDA, GENOVA, ITALY

annabormida — 2016-06-27 20:53:19 UTC

I appreciate the work in PBL course because I can improve with peer assessment . When I assess I reflect on my peer project and also on mine .
When I read the assessment I can have feedback about my work and I can go on in a better way !
At school, I 've started to increase peer assessment and I realize that my students are very good to understand how they can help each other without negative feelings.
I learn a lot from my students assessment!

Litsa Glarou, Greece

seagullitsa — 2016-06-27 21:26:30 UTC

I like very much participating in peer assessment type activities like on this course or on the EUN Academy. It is an excellent and constructive feedback which lets me know what my peers’ opinion about my assignment is and gives me the opportunity to express my opinion on my peers’ tasks. With my students I use self assignment and peer assignment in projects. I agree with the teacher’s opinion on the video that peer assignment gives power to the students as learners.

Anna Chiarenza - Italy

annachiarenza — 2016-06-27 21:35:29 UTC

I like the way this course is organized as peer assessment is helping me a lot, also because the colleagues are very competent. It is really stimulating to be assessed by your peers. I used peer assessment a lot in my previous school ( a language school, asking students to assess their paragraphs or compositions, or oral presentations using grids). In the school I teach now it is quite hard as the students are very weak and they tend to over-evaluate their classmates in order to get a good grade when is their turn.

Serenella Silenzi Italy

2016-06-27 21:41:06 UTC

In my school we have got an interesting extra-curriculum project of peer education which is developed in the afternoon. Every year the staff selects a panel of pupils with excellent school results, the ones who decide to volunteer will support low achievers' recovery of some subjects. During their 'lessons' peer assessment is continuous and this process greatly helps both tutors and tutees. The school results of tutees usually improve, while tutors enhance their knowledge, as well as their soft skills. I also adopt peer assessment in PBL when my students first revise their products in group work. or after the finalshow.

Madalena Quental, Portugal

madalena_quental — 2016-06-27 21:42:54 UTC

I liked the experience of assessment my peers which allowed me to meet the diversity of the work performed by teachers in several countries and the exchange of ideas on teaching and the teaching. It also allowed me to make a reflection about the work I have done in this course and, most off all, allowed me to learn and experience what PBL is. For sure I will apply this method of work in class with my students.

Casoria Maria Anna

goli291174 — 2016-06-27 21:44:22 UTC

A peer assessment activity that I organize with my students is the correction of a dictation. I dictate a text to all the class, then the students exchange their worksheet with their neighbour and correct each other texts.

Maria Veropalumbo Italy

2016-06-27 21:49:50 UTC

In peer assessment students are involved looking at each other’s work and assessing it against pre-agreed criteria. They then give each other feedback on the work. As will be detailed further on this page there are many methods of peer assessment but these can be categorised as written or verbal and can be in pairs or groups.

Often it is used formatively, to provide support and feedback that enables the student to produce better work when it comes to summative assessment.

2016-06-27 21:54:50 UTC

Ilaria /Italy
Peer assessment is rarely used in my school. I find the ladder of feedback a very useful scheme to clarify what peer assessment is.

Ljubica Ruzhinska, Macedonia

rljubica_78 — 2016-06-27 22:09:39 UTC

I have used P2P in my teaching before with my students, either in everyday lessons or during and at the end of projects. The starting point for introducing peer assessment is for teachers to model the process (i.e. acting as a role model, and explaining and demonstrating how it should be done). For example, showing how to give constructive feedback (detailed comments, objective focus, etc.). A good way of doing this is to use examples of work from anonymous pupils (e.g. from a previous year), modelling the type of constructive feedback that might be given or providing a list of questions that pupils might ask. This allows pupils to become accustomed to the process before they are asked to evaluate and comment on the work of their classmates. Pupils need to be supported in giving effective feedback, helping them to understand the different types of feedback that can be given and how each type can help others to improve their work.

Here are some rules about P2P I have used in the past with my students:

Respect the work of others;
Identify successful features;
Think about the learning objective and the success criteria when suggesting improvements;
Word suggestions positively.

Doina Andrei, Romania

2016-06-27 22:26:22 UTC

Because life outside the classroom usually requires working with others, peer assessment is a viable option to measure student growth because provides a powerful avenue for students to receive feedback on their learning. Providing students with an evaluation rubric often helps guide the peer evaluation process. This process also emphasizes the cooperative nature of the PBL environment. ssessment+activities+with+your+students.&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Tanja / Germany

2016-06-28 06:20:44 UTC

It is useful to make students think of clear criteria to evaluate the work of their peers otherwise feedback tends to be shallow and not really helpful.

Emanuela Boffa Italy

2016-06-28 06:56:54 UTC

I have never used peer assessment in my classroom , and I have never seen the ladder of feedback . Anyway I think I have to work a lot to arrive at this point with my students .

Alice Cabrelle /Italy

alice_cabrelle — 2016-06-28 07:00:19 UTC

I've never used peer assessment in my classes, only self assessment. I experimented peer assessment during this PBL course and I think that it can be very useful if well done. Writing upon other works made me reflecting on my work and focusing in strenght and weakness. Moreover, I tried to be as clear as possible in my project since I knew that someone else was going to read it and assess it.

IDA/ITALY

idadinatale — 2016-06-28 07:24:56 UTC

I think peer assessment is a powerful tool for improving learning. In this way we can see our work in a different point of view, understand better the topic but overall extend our mind asset.
In the past I tried peer assessment but I didn’t a well structurated activity. Now I looked for ladder of feedback and find this interesting image

Vilija,Lithuania

2016-06-28 07:48:31 UTC

usually use peer assessment on writing tasks. We do writing for someone, we imagine a person reading our writing. Usually I tel my students that the first reader of their works won't be me but their friends. We discuss what makes their writing excellent. We call that criteria list. Peers just mark pluses or question marks or minuses at the criteria and then discuss.

Claudia de Crescenzo

maestradisogni — 2016-06-28 08:02:42 UTC

This year I have taken many courses online and I have had P2P assessment for the first time in my professional life. I find it very useful because a colleague can give many important suggests in terms of a self-education relationship. I have tried to introduce this way in my classrooms but I'll surely refine it in the future, starting from next school year.

Jasna Šojer, Croatia

jasna_sojer — 2016-06-28 08:12:17 UTC

Last few years as I am folowing ESA I am pretty much used on peer assesment and I like it a lot but I think that there is still lot to work tom prepare proper peer assesment and learn criterias for assesing, like we do it now.

Katerina Kostaki, Greece

2016-06-28 08:18:45 UTC

I usually use peer assessment in my group projects in the form of a list of criteria that I have formerly agreed with my students. The students give a mark from 1-4 to each criterion. the marks refer to the group work and not to individual partners.The teacher announces the results and then a class discussion follows. Then, the groups improve their work, if needed.

Helena Paixão

helenagpaixao — 2016-06-28 08:48:55 UTC

I use peer assessement when my students present their project to the class. I now realize that it could be use more often along the way. It´s a way to students improve their work, using the coments of their peer. I think it´s importante to have a list of criteria, defined with the students.

Sónia, Portugal

sonia_barbosa — 2016-06-28 08:56:08 UTC

I've used the "Jigsaw technique". This technique consists in a given moment of the development of activities, some team members pass by the other teams, to give and receive ideas, then returned to their initial groups. It is a collaborative learning technique that promotes the ability of all students to contribute to the learning process, increasing the levels of participation and co-responsibility.

Raffaella,Italy

rafmag16 — 2016-06-28 09:02:27 UTC

Peer assessment is an important tool for teachers and students because feedback from peers can be delivered with more immediacy than teacher feedback.
I use peer assessment with my pupils in this way.
-I determine the criteria on which the assignment will be assessed
-I group pupils into small peer feedback groups
-I take an assignment
-I give them a checklist that reminds them how to deliver effective peer feedback
-I clarify the assignment
-I monitor the progress and the quality of their feedback
-I provide feedback to pupils on the effectiveness of their peer assessment.
At the end I use pupils' peer feedback for revisions of works-in-progress.

Enrica Maragliano - Italy

2016-06-28 09:14:26 UTC

I personally took part in some courses where peer assessment was used, so last year I decided to use it with my students. My personal experience was very good in adults assessment, while for students peer assessment I had some doubts as someone didn't like to be criticized by peers (even the reviewer was polite and the revision constructive). No big problems but I have to learn how I could do it better. I think the ladder can be a good solution.. Another thing is that I had very little time, so I gave students my personal assessment rubric and asked them to evaluate using that. Probably, as suggested in the video, it is better don't mix teacher's assessment and peer's one (of course I had already decided my marks even if students didn't know them) and postpone teacher's evaluation allowing students to use their mates' feedback.

Martha Karvounidou/Greece

2016-06-28 09:48:00 UTC

I organized self assessment activities but no peer assessment. It's time for it

Sara Dias, Portugal

saramonicac — 2016-06-28 09:56:25 UTC

Peer assessment is very useful once you guide students to do it in a productive way. You need to be careful about the ways students change their ideas. It's very important we determine the goals and the criteria for peer assessment.

Renato Sousa, Portugal

renatosousamail — 2016-06-28 10:05:37 UTC

Feedback between peers is very important.
I frequently use peer assessment in the classroom.
I usually pre-etermine the criteria for the assessement of the project in a form a check-list. In groups, students may exchange projects and assess the work.
During the project I guide the students as far as assessement is concerned.

Monica Morana, Italy

moimorana — 2016-06-28 10:17:48 UTC

I use peer assestment in the collaborative work and usually the self-assestment

Andrea Marri, Italy

noxruit — 2016-06-28 10:19:22 UTC

I have used peer assessment using built-in feature of Moodle Workshop activity. However a reference protocol used to structure and guide feedback as the one shown in the video is valuable otherwise students could be a bit ambiguous and unfocused in their opinions.
A risk is also that students assess on personal and friendship bases, they could be biased.

Anne Fischer, Berli

techieteach3r — 2016-06-28 10:19:38 UTC

I use peer assessment often in my classroom, especially when students have finished giving presentations. It is a great tool for those presenting as well as for those who are giving the feedback because then they all know what they need to work on next time. Feedback in my classroom must be constructive and give concrete examples- I don't just allow them to say that something was 'good' or 'bad'.

Tânia Coelho - Portugal

tcoelho76 — 2016-06-28 10:32:03 UTC

I try whenever possible to peer review , it is important for them to establish that the assessment can be a time where they are analyzed strengths and weaknesses of individual or group work . I use this type of evaluation only in project work group / individual or communications.

Željka Gospočić, Croatia

2016-06-28 10:42:31 UTC

I usually ask my colleagues what they think about my ideas and work. And also reflect their work too. So why not teach our students to do the same. I've done some peer assessment with my students, but I see now I can and will do it regularly and give them precise instructions.

Maria João Carvalho

carvalho1968 — 2016-06-28 10:48:26 UTC

I've been following a task-based approach. At the end of each unit students have to perform a task, usually make a final product: a flyer, a poster, an infographic, a presentation, a video ...
Once they've finished I ask them to focus on peer review. I usually make a quiz that will lead students to analyze their classmates' work according to certain criteria, make comments and suggestions for improvement. Here is an example. Students had to create a flyer on the benefits of going on an exchange programme.

Amelia De Chiara

amelia_dechiara — 2016-06-28 12:11:35 UTC

I rarely use peer assessment because it requires great matury: some younger students of mine use it to establish who’s the best or can’t give effective and valid feedback. Moreover, sometimes students prefer traditional assessment. After watching these videos, I want to use self and peer assessment in my daily teaching pratice...I’ll surely do next year. Thanks to what I’m learning in this course, to other colleagues’ experiences and suggestions, and now that I know about the Ladder of Feedback, I feel more confident in using peer assessment with my students.

This course is my first experience of a MOOC and it’s the first time I’m involved in peer assessment with other colleagues.The reviews I’ve written and the ones I’ve received make me think about a lot of different aspects of my teaching practise. I really appreciate the kind and constructive reviews I received, they make me reflect on my work and improve it. It’s been great to have different points of view from other teachers, also from different countries.

Jelena Alekniene, Lithuania

jelenapro — 2016-06-28 12:12:46 UTC

At the end of each project students have make a final product: a blog, a poster, an infographic, a presentation or video. Once they've finished, I ask them to make a peer review according to the given criteria.

Michela Furia

mickymicky — 2016-06-28 12:48:56 UTC

I rarely use peer assesment in my classrooms. Primary school students tend to express a ositive assesment of their best friends and a negative of the less popular student. I'll try next year, thanks to all your ideas.

Mara Pinto, Pt BG

marasofia84 — 2016-06-28 12:54:24 UTC

Usually I use peer assessment in my work with my colleagues. In this way I'm always learning more. In the beginning I used to be the youngest so all my colleagues helped me a lot and in exchange I bring some innovation to their classrooms. I steel use a lot of strategies and things they teach me. Also with the students usually they give feedback in the end of most of the tasks.

Rasa, Lithuania

rasasad — 2016-06-28 13:00:43 UTC

I use peer assessment in writing tasks, spelling tests and presentations. My students know criteria and help to their friends to do their best. It is not new for my students.

Ausenda, Portugal

conceicao1964 — 2016-06-28 13:03:14 UTC

I sometimes use this kind of assesment with my students. Some students dont acept the peer assesment, they have 6 to 10 years, but I explain the budget e after a few times they begin to get in the mood. I think it is a very good skill to when they group up and accept oders opinion. They acheve also what they need to improve and their weakness. In my personell and profissional life I have made some assesments and I felt that I needed to be assertive and kind with others because we all fail and the learning began's with that

Cecilia (Italia)

2016-06-28 13:12:28 UTC

I have never used peer assessment in my class. But after this great experience I think I will experiment this tool, maybe this can increase motivation in studying among my students.

Annalisa Tosi,

19annalisa_tosi82 — 2016-06-28 13:18:05 UTC

I sometimes use peer assessment in my classes, creating different rubrics accordingto the activity performed. I find this kind of assessment very useful because students receive and apply their peers' feedback much better than when it is me to "officially" assess their works, so improving their learning and feeling much more relaxed towards the various activities

Bice, Italy

ecib — 2016-06-28 13:24:18 UTC

I sometimes use peer assessment with my pupils. It encourages the students to reflect on their role and contribution to the group.

Egle Sala, Italy

sala_egle — 2016-06-28 13:31:15 UTC

I sometimes give my pupils the opportunity to assess the work of another one, but not always all of them accept the feedback, because they don't feel themselves

Spiros Spiris, Gree

spirisspiros — 2016-06-28 13:36:22 UTC

I have never really tried formative peer assessment before. Whenever I asked my students to peer review each other’s work, it aimed at summative peer assessment. After experiencing formative peer assessment on this course I realized its benefits on both the reviewee and reviewer. I even got the chance to realize things I messed seeing when I completed my tasks. Formative peer assessment is something I will definitely try with my students.

Chiara Marchesi-Italy

pippicalzelunghe91 — 2016-06-28 13:45:03 UTC

I think peer assessment could be a great tool if well structured. I never used peer assessement in my classroom because students are not ccomfortable underlinig someone else's mistakes that's why i think that a structure that include kindness and something good to say about the work is perfect.

Pedro Costa, Portugal

pedro_mmco — 2016-06-28 14:00:54 UTC

Self evaluation is important but the peer review is also very important. It allows you to review the strategies, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a particular methodology or activity, to further improve and innovate. I use several times this type of evaluation with my students, where they can also reflect on my work and can give your opie think that could have been done differently.
Another way is the opinion of colleagues working in pairs or in collaboration with us that we can also help to reflect on our strategies. This type of dialogue and evaluation is important to our teaching practice.

Alessandro Ruffino / Italy

2016-06-28 14:01:28 UTC

I don't use peer assessment in my class as structured form of evaluation, because my students haven't practice to do it! In fact when I proposed them to do it they weren't honest with their peer or they took it as a game. Maybe it can be my lacking because I don't know how to involve them. I hope this course give me inspiring to know how!

AD/PT

teacheralex_dua — 2016-06-28 14:19:31 UTC

I first came across peer assessment in MOOCs, namely by the European Schoolnet Academy. It was /is challenging, but sometimes disappointing, too, as not all colleagues take it as seriously as they should - just like our sts, really... Anyway, I loved the experience and since then I've sometimes used peer assessment. I don't use it as often as I would like due to some misconceptions by sts, parents and even colleagues, but the truth is that every time I use it the results are encouraging with clear improvements not only for the reviewee but also for the reviewer - just like our own scaffolded peer review from week 1 onwards making us reflect on our weaknesses and strengths, on what we can improve whenever feedback is really constructive.

mariagraziasassu — 2016-06-28 14:27:32 UTC

Carmelina Italy

carmelina_enrico — 2016-06-28 14:28:34 UTC

I believe that peer review is very effective, because students can learn a lot with each other and enrich each other, it is a powerful means of making progress in teaching and learning and to acquire knowledge and critical thinking. In this process, children learn to think, to work, to respect the opinion of others and to accept the error.

Strengths

-The Peer assessment helps to improve their work, based on recommendations and suggestions made by peers, by friends

-The Peer assessment helps to improve the work of others, you become more responsible, you have to learn how to motivate their opinion and also acquire the skills to communicate it to others in the right way: By evaluating you learn from others ideas and different work styles. Peer makes us learn new things: in fact, when a person has the responsibility to evaluate the work of others, must be effective and look for information that does not know.

Risks to be avoided
1. Negative attitude - competitive "I'm glad that you were wrong, so I can prove I'm better than you 2. Evaluate all right whatever - instead of providing a constructive peer review, the reviewer gives nothing but praise for fear of how it would be taking a critical;

3. Say something uncritically because he did not even read the work of others carefully

To maximize the strengths and reduce to a minimum the problems, the teacher should encourage the children's personal reflection on their learning, and guide them, step by step, towards an ever greater ability to evaluate their own and others' work. As?

The teacher should make to acquire the responsibility to evaluate the work of their peers on the basis of clear and precise criteria, predetermined and known to all. Should be invited to give effective feedback, good and reliable. Students need clear guidelines, training in assessment criteria, scoring rules and practice with examples

I really like the scale of feedback, as it helps to evaluate peers without judging them, but critically and at the same time, constructively.

During this course I enjoyed the peer review, among colleagues and learned a lot from it: I discovered new ideas, I noticed, revised and corrected some parts of my work, I have perfected other in the light of advice and information and I rejoiced for different appreciation received for my project with Learning Designers.

Gianni Stival - Italy

2016-06-28 14:33:18 UTC

I haven’t yet used the peer assessment with my students, except for some class exercises that have not been further evaluated. Conversely I have always had to do with peer evaluations in all the moocs that I’ve been enrolled until now. But I am thinking about how to implement peer evaluation in my teaching routines.

Lucilla, Italy

2016-06-28 14:33:23 UTC

until now i used peer assessment in order to determinate grades, for example at the end of an oral exam, i asked students their opinion about colleague's performance and finally a grade that they considered right for this. it was interesting listen about students's reflections but now i think that my focus was too based on search the grade for the performance and not on a real peer assessment.i will try to provide ladder feedback or an other tool to my students because they need a guidance to learn how assess in a constructive way

GmedranoTIC

gmedranotic — 2016-06-28 14:35:51 UTC

I use peer assessment when the students present some work in the board. They tell the presenters what they have thought about their ideas and also they have an online rubric to control the mark of the group divided in diferent items. I think I will use more time doing these good advices from these videos!

Daniela Lanzo Italy

2016-06-28 14:40:16 UTC

I found peer assessment in this course relly iteresting and beneficial for my learning. It was the first I experienced peer assessment formally and it really helped me during the learning process. Thanks to my peers I learnt hoe to use the learning designer for a better outcom .
i'm sure I will implemet the use of thi kind of assessment in my teaching activity

Karolina,Croatia

2016-06-28 14:46:24 UTC

Peer assessment in this course is great idea, but some colleges do not give me any help with my LD. They just write : Nice work, keep going, and it is not so good that you can improve it. So I am worry that some pupils will do the same. Maybe to give them how many words they must have, and also to the next participants of this course.

Maria Rosaria Grasso-Italy

mrgrasso — 2016-06-28 14:52:44 UTC

I have experienced peer review for the first time in this course and I found it useful and an excellent system to improve. I will introduce it with my students.

Luisa e Rosa Italy

luisa_derosa13 — 2016-06-28 14:56:08 UTC

I believe that the peer assessment is an excellent evaluation system. It's very important to know the views of others to improve ours work

Maria Louvari, Greece

marialouvari — 2016-06-28 15:16:57 UTC

I don't use peer assessment in every lesson. I use it when students finish a project. After each group's presentation, the other groups say what they liked or not and we talk about what could be improved. I think it's time to use it more often.

Christos - Cyprus

p_christos — 2016-06-28 15:18:09 UTC

I do the same as Maria Louvari from Greece. I use peer assessment after students presentation in a subject. In this way students they hear the critique from their counter parts and they try to improve

Cristina, Italy

tata_pandina — 2016-06-28 15:33:23 UTC

In my lessons I often offer the possibility of comparison and peer tutoring amongst students of different levels. In this way students of higher levels could help students who are more in difficulty given them suggestions and further explanations; on the other hand the fact the a student has to explain something to a classmates is usefull for the student himself who will understand the arguemente better and better, according to Glasser. Moreover I have, also, faced a peer assessment activity similar to the one sugggested in this course during the course of abilitation for teachers which requires the assessment of other colleague's works connected to several arguements.

Maria Sourgiadaki, Greece

msourgiad — 2016-06-28 15:44:20 UTC

In order to make a peer assessment, you have to know. So, peer assessment becomes a learning tool. Valuable, in both ways!

Charikleia Thomaidou

haditoc — 2016-06-28 15:53:10 UTC

I use peer assessment when a student writes a sentence on board. The class aks him/her questions about grammar or syntax they have been taught, so that schoolmate gets the chance to correct wrong parts by himself.

Teodora Buica, Romania

2016-06-28 16:01:41 UTC

I use peer assessment when my students present their group projects. I like to involve my students in evaluation and auto-evaluation; that give them more confidence and objectivity in self assessment.
I feel more confident when I read the reviews made by my peers on this course. Thank you!

Lina (Italy)

2016-06-28 16:12:06 UTC

The formative assessment can be made with self-assessment and group assessment both of the ways are very productive since students can learn while assessing their own work and work of the others.

Ornella Lasaponara, Italy

2016-06-28 16:16:56 UTC

Peer to peer is the experience of the game. The same social dynamics of the game can also be poured in learning. Scientific research on mirror neurons is confirmation of the need to relate peer so that they can learn from positive role models and imitate them. The imposed from education can create inclusion problems, however peer growing sense of self assessment and recognition of the gains achieved in the group.

Ioanna/Greece

2016-06-28 16:20:18 UTC

When first applied the peer assessment might not succeed if we do not take seriously. But if we insist and develop such an assessment culture is very constructive finally.

Elena Pezzi / Italy

elenapezzi — 2016-06-28 16:29:39 UTC

I regularly use peer assessment in my PBL activities, both for assessing process and products.
What I find extremely useful for my students and me is that - as the teacher said in the second video - you are obliged to pay attention to your teaching / learning method and to the goals and objectives of your activity.
I think that peer assessment requires quite a long time to be implemented and you cannot do it alone. In my school not so many teachers use it regularly, so I have to work twice, both with my colleagues and with my students to help them to discover how useful is such kind of assessment.
I think that if you (teacher) experiment it as a learner (like in this course) it could be easier that you would adopt it in our teaching practice.

And yes, definitely, the ladder of feedback is really helpful!

Marilia Bação, Portugal

mariliabacao — 2016-06-28 16:36:02 UTC

I can use peer assessment in my PBL when students discuss about their own project/work. They do this sometimes. The problem is that they’re not used to do it and they ‘re always expecting the teacher and not the peers to do it.

Éva Pató Szebényi, Hungary

2016-06-28 16:57:39 UTC

I definetly will try peer assessment with my sts and I am sure that it won' t be easy for the first time, but it is worth for a try. I hope their assessment will be helpful and cunstructive and stress on positive feedback.

Vânia-Oporto, Portugal.

vania_correia — 2016-06-28 17:05:52 UTC

I can use peer assessment in my PBL activity when kids are about to decide how each food they are going to put into the wheel of the Mediterranean Diet.

Angelo, Rivoli, Italy

Angelo — 2016-06-28 17:12:44 UTC

I found out the peer assessment in 2012 by writing a chapter of these miscellaneous volumes. It was an experience that stimulated me a lot. I later experimented peer assessment in MOOCs by the European Schoolnet Academy, which has been a part no doubt significant, but not very useful, because this peer assessment was not structured.
I tried to extend this practice to my students, but perhaps with little conviction and in fact it did not produce great results.
The idea of the ladder seems good.

Ozgu Ozturk,Istanbul

ozguozturkk — 2016-06-28 17:13:11 UTC

Peer assessment is more important than the teachers one :)

SIlvia (SI)

laprofsilvia — 2016-06-28 17:18:20 UTC

to introduce a peer assessment in the classes in which I work, I always had to start thinking with my students on the concept of valuation. I think that evaluate is not assign a number to a student but instead it means "give value to his work". Often in Italy the evaluation is seen as "putting a stamp" on pupils. For this reason the approach of many students with the evaluation and the review of the work is very critical. it takes time and effort to help children approaching in a different wayto this important learning stage. But when students understand the purpose of the peer assessment .. their growth begins!

despoina, greece

2016-06-28 17:24:26 UTC

peer assessment motives you to get better, open your mind and connect you more with your team

Annalisa Di Pierro, Italy

adipierro — 2016-06-28 17:30:11 UTC

Peer assessment is the best way to evaluate, because students take a great consideration their classmates' judgement. when I have used it, I saw that students are more precise, equal and stricter than me in evaluation.
Obviously everything must be done under the teacher's supervision. Moreover this method makes students become responsible .

Daniela Barbieri, Italy

dani_barb — 2016-06-28 17:31:07 UTC

Valuation is not to assign a number but it's to give value to each work.It has to help students to be independent and critic.

Spasija Neshkoska Cuculeska, Macedonia

2016-06-28 17:36:35 UTC

I completely agree that peer assessment needs the Ladder of Feedback because from my experience if not facilitated, students could easily confuse assessment with grading. During the peer assessment in this course as an assessor I learn how to assess and use assessment in practice (include me so I can learn) always following the guidance provided by our moderators. (our ladder of feedback)

Ana, Portugal

2016-06-28 17:40:28 UTC

Peer Assessment can be realy interesting to implement in the classroom. Teachers need to be carefull about the way they do it. Sometimes, it depends on the kind of pupils we have. But if they understand they can learn a lot from it, it wont be any problem.

ELT Dragana, Serbia

2016-06-28 17:55:44 UTC

I think that I might use the Ladder of Feedback in the last stage of my Learning Design.

Achilleas, Greece

axilleask — 2016-06-28 17:59:10 UTC

Students listen to their peers more than they listen to the teacher, that's true.

Daniela Pagnini

daniela_pagnini — 2016-06-28 18:06:10 UTC

Diana, Italy

diana90 — 2016-06-28 18:29:55 UTC

I think that the work that I do in this course it's thanks to everyone who help me with our peer assessment, I hope to use it also in my school during lessons.

Loredana, Italy

loredanaconte14 — 2016-06-28 19:40:59 UTC

I think that peer assessement is important to improve our work. When I started this course I wasn't very sure about this but I learnt a lot from my peers who helped me in my activities.

Nicoletta, Italy

2016-06-28 20:50:15 UTC

I really like the peer assessement. It triggers a dialogue with colleagues and reciprocal teaching. Also, allows us to exchange knowledge about subjects' contents and teaching techniques.

LUIGI ALTERANI, ITALY

Italianteacher — 2016-06-28 20:53:29 UTC

I believe that peer assessment could help also to establish a good relationship between students and the teacher who is seen as the one who has to judge, using a number, if his students work is right or wrong. Students often don’t accept and do not share teacher's judgment, especially when this is not positive. .

Reneta/Bulgaria

2016-06-28 21:31:06 UTC

Peer assessment is great & useful for sts, & for teachers as well. We often practice it via writing & grammar activities. Children like checking up the works of their classmates. It's nice about teachers, too, 'cos they can see the motivation & pupils' results. Thank you! :)

Clara Abegão, Portugal

claraabegao — 2016-06-28 21:32:42 UTC

As a teacher, I´m used to peer assessment, because I do colaborative work all the time with my colleagues. In "my" classroom, I think I have to be very carefull about peer assessment because , sometimes, it´s not a good idea. It depends on the students behavior, because some students don´t accept negative opinions about what they are doing and don´t think about peer assessment as a building process. And It depends on the subject we are studying that day, too.

Silvana, Italy

silvana — 2016-06-28 21:42:52 UTC

My students use a Portfolio in which they collect examples of work linked to self /peer and teacher assessment grids

Ana, Portugal

2016-06-28 22:04:43 UTC

Peer assessment can help to establish a good relationship between teachers and students. I think peer assessment is very important to improve our work . For example, in this course, we can give opinion about different works done by our peers and they can give their ideas and help us with our task. They collaborate with our real work. Usin this kind of evaluation is very motivating and keep the students very interested and responsable

Margarida Sotana

2016-06-28 22:05:13 UTC

When I was studying, in the 4th year of University, we had Physics and Chemistry Didactics and prepared small classes to our colleagues. That was my first teaching experience and my first experience of peer assessment. It was a very important training for real classes. We gave tips to each other and that helped us improve our skills.

In my last year in the University I did a teaching practice. During a school year I was responsible for two classes. Normally each School received two people and there’s an advisor from the School and two from the University (one of Physics and one of Chemistry). Me and my colleague were best of friends and work a lot together. Whenever we have the chance we went to each other classes. That’s my main experience of peer assessment. We analysed our classes, the weaknesses and strong points and that was very important to our improvement.

In my classes I don’t use peer assessment in a formal way. Sometimes in the works’ presentation I ask the students’ opinion about the presentations, but some of the students aren’t impartial and gave opinions according personal likes and dislikes… I have to insist…

Elsa Pereira, PT

elsammhp — 2016-06-28 22:10:14 UTC

Peer assessment is a great way to evaluate, because students take a great consideration their classmates' judgement.
Obviously everything must be done under the teacher's supervision. Moreover this method makes students become responsible .

BrunoFerreira20, PT

here3030 — 2016-06-29 00:46:37 UTC

Me and my collegues we are used to do peer assessment to each other. I'm not used to do it with the students, but will try as soon as possible :)

Maria Gabriella from Italy

gabriellataurina — 2016-06-29 06:14:42 UTC

I think peer assessment is useful to create a collaborative working space both for students and teachers. I usually use peer assessment wiyh my students to share remarks and reflections to improve our purposes.

mbacita — 2016-06-29 06:46:20 UTC

I usually ask my students to correct each other during oral tests and to collaborate in finding the right answer when handing the written tests. I had the opportunity to be part of activities of peer learning and peer review and I can state that they helped me a lot.

Anamaria Golumbeanu, Romania

2016-06-29 07:11:12 UTC

I have some experiences with peer assessment as someone participating at the Europeanschoolnet Academy courses. But I have not experience with peer assessment in tiching students. I will try.

Carmen, Italy

cdellog — 2016-06-29 07:19:21 UTC

Peer assessment is really useful in the process of evaluation. I always employ
it in my teaching process in order to involve the students in their learning process and make them aware of the track of their learning target

Matina.Greece

skarathanasi — 2016-06-29 07:34:55 UTC

Peer assessment activates students even the weak ones to participate and have good feedback and also raises self- estame when involving.

Mariangela Bielli, Italy

2016-06-29 08:12:47 UTC

As it is pointed out in the video, peer assessment is not having kids mark each others' works but help them improve their work in response to feedback. Another key point highlighted in the videos is that after assessing someone else’s work you can better reflect on your own; this is true for our students and for us, too in this course. I use formative assessment esp for eTwinning projects – I think I must use rubrics shared with students on a regular basis. This course is helping me on this very important issue.

Alexandra Ferrão

xanaferrao — 2016-06-29 08:49:06 UTC

I teach math in a secondary school and students have to be prepare to a final exam. The program they must learn is too long and i don't have too much time by doing peer assessment. I haved applied some tests in pairs. I organized students in pairs and they helped each other by doing some assessement.

Jessica, Italy

bb_jess — 2016-06-29 09:03:28 UTC

As a teacher I tried something like peer assessment, letting students correct each other works. What I found great is that students learned more from it than from doing thier own work, because they were more concentrated and involved.
As a student in this course... the most assessments were incomplete, were only the second step of the ladder of assessment. And I'm sure my work isn't perfect at all.

Nathalie, Malta

nathaliescerri — 2016-06-29 09:12:40 UTC

Honestly I hardly ever use peer assessment in my everyday routine! I acknowledge it has several advantages both for the students and the teacher. For one, it would surely reduce my workload :) But considering the benefits it has on the students, I intend to use it during the next scholastic year. I have researched this topic and found the following to be interesting:

1. It ncreases the students' responsibility and autonomy;

2. It allows for a more advanced and deeper understanding of the subject matter, skills and processes;

3. It lifts the role and status of the student from passive learner to active leaner and assessor;

4. It involves students in critical reflection;

5. It develops in students a better understanding of their own subjectivity and judgement.

Emanuele Gardini Italy

2016-06-29 09:13:06 UTC

In my little teaching experience, to be honest, I've never used peer assessment, but It seems to be really useful. The ladder of feedback is an important instrument to build an effective peer assessment. Here in the padlet I can share my experience about peer assessment of this course. The feedback received from my collegues are useful and meaningful many times, but also when I do the assessment is a very important moment of learning because I see in the partner something that miss in my work and her/him work suggest me more working ideas for my PBL. Maybe It works the same for our students: the peer assessment is real important for the student who provides the feedback as far as for the one who received a feedback.

Nuno Gaspar, Portugal

nunogaspar — 2016-06-29 09:46:14 UTC

Self and Peer Assessment is interesting, but we have to take into account that we must work, the students, the ability to receive a negative review. That is, not all students are able to process a negative review of a colleague.

See my Learning Diary.

Osman Keskin. Turkey

lovelyosman — 2016-06-29 10:24:44 UTC

I regularly use peer assessment in my PBL activities, both for assessing process and products.

Ester Degennaro,Italy

esterdegennaro — 2016-06-29 11:11:30 UTC

4.3 REFLECTIONS ON PEER ASSESSMENT

It’s a very interesting ladder of peer assessment because it gives the students an immediate feedback , they can review, revise and reflect on their assignments in groups.

Daniela Leone, Italy

2016-06-29 11:13:27 UTC

I often use peer assessments in oral tests: when a student has to give an oral presentation, classmates ask questions, and they must pay attention to check answers and not repeat the same questions. In this way I get a peer assessment situation and less boring oral tests.

italy

rovels — 2016-06-29 11:18:23 UTC

I have only just started teaching experience in my pinion used peer assessment seems to be really useful. The ladder of feedback is an important instrument to build an effective peer assessment as long is proactive and constructive bearing in mind common objective The feedback received from my collegues are useful and meaningful many times, but also when I do the assessment is a very important moment of learning because I see what colleague might do better. the feedback as far as for the one who received a feedback.

Dani

danijela_takac — 2016-06-29 11:22:56 UTC

Pear assessment is crucial and important. But it mast be kept constructive and proactive.

Maria Gabriella from Italy

gabriellataurina — 2016-06-29 11:42:51 UTC

Susana Varela, Portugal

7suslucas — 2016-06-29 11:54:45 UTC

The process of peer assessment it is very important for the acquisition of actual knowledge.
The frequency of this course proved to me that.
Now just wait for September to implement this strategy in the classroom.

Evridiki Gkori, Greece

eurydicegkori — 2016-06-29 12:04:07 UTC

It is always motivating and refreshing to have your work appreciated and constructively evaluated. Peer assessment can do exactly that without the anxiety of grading

Monica Boccoli, Italy

mobocco — 2016-06-29 12:26:44 UTC

I attended some courses in European Schoolnet Academy, Coursera and Moodle where there was the peer assesment. It is very useful to create a collaborative group.

Piera Selva Italy

pieraccat — 2016-06-29 12:58:12 UTC

I tried peer assessment this year with 2 classes but I was lacking the ladder of feedback, now I feel more confident with this very useful tool!

Vasilica Gazdac,Romania

vasilicagazdac — 2016-06-29 13:10:57 UTC

Peer assessment is very important for us as teachers because of routine and because through constructive criticism and brainstorming we get to have a team and a project.

Iliyana, Bulgaria

2016-06-29 13:17:57 UTC

I think peer assessment in this course was and is very useful for me. There are always clear criteria from the course moderators, constructive feedback from my colleagues. I personally learn a lot and try to be close to this requirements when give my assessment. One of the suggestions given to my by a Spanish colleague was very interesting so I put it in lesson plan. I hope my suggestions in my peers’ reviews were also constructive.

Simona, Italia

2016-06-29 13:18:54 UTC

Peer assessment was a very interesting experience for me in this course. Especially because usually we consider assessment how the moment when we have to find mistakes. Instead in this course I've knew another point of view: first of all try the positivs elements and be constructive!
I'll speak about this method to my classroom next year and we'll applicate them.

José Ricardo Pinto, Portugal

josepint0 — 2016-06-29 13:21:07 UTC

I already used peer assessment. Each student make a questionnaire and, when finished, other student must correct the test for the other student. In this activity, the students must provide constructive feedback to the colleague.

Tânia Pires, Portugal

taniac_mpires — 2016-06-29 13:31:45 UTC

I tried peer assessment in my classroom. I let the students correct each other works and I found that students take a great consideration their classmate’s judgement. The students were more enthusiastic and focused when the peer review was performed.

Lúcia Tavares, Portugal

luciatavares6 — 2016-06-29 13:32:35 UTC

Peer assessment can be bad too to our students. In this course some peers made wrong comments because they didn’t understand well what was need to the task. Students can do the same. But students can do worst once they can be bad to each other on purpose… And sometimes students don’t react well to criticism.

Michaël / France

2016-06-29 13:38:24 UTC

I always use peer assessment when I give my pupils a Dictogloss (2 texts, one A and one B, different holes to fill with the missing words I hear when teacher reads).

Irene, Portugal

mariatiago — 2016-06-29 13:46:23 UTC

I think self assessment encourages students to become independent learners and can increase their motivation.
It enables students to better understand assessment expectations and work towards improving their own performance.When students assess each other and themselves, can encourage students to take greater responsibility for their learning, for example, by encouraging engagement with assessment criteria and reflection of their own performance and that of their peers.Students who are asked to reflect on their own performance learn to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses and are able to pinpoint where to focus their efforts to see the greatest results. Whenever I do oral presentations, portfolio and pair or group project presentation students do peer assessment. They use points, likes, stickers to become more confident once it’s really easy to weaken students’ confidence. Unfortunately I don’t do much peer review. But I’ll try to do it in the near future .

Maria Sorvillo

maria_sorvillo_rosaria — 2016-06-29 13:47:30 UTC

The process of peer assessment is very important in classroom practice, as it allows us to reflect on the work done, activity, observed elements, proven tools,benefits or any difficulties, confront and collaborate for any changes.

AnnaliFe/Italy

dseconda16 — 2016-06-29 14:19:01 UTC

I assign a subject related with the lessons that we are following. They seek the insights in class, and form couples. Each couple pair prepares a lesson for classmates and present. After the presentation, they are distributed quiz prepared by the boys. The couple who made the presentation collects the questions, corrects and tries to give an assessment. Then they return to his classmates the work delivered.

Sandra, Portugal

sandrafernandes22 — 2016-06-29 14:21:35 UTC

I've been using peer assessement in my classes but not always quite structured. For some years now I've been willing to change that and include more self-assessement and peer assessement along the teaching process. I've seen that it really helps students to learn from their mistakes and be motivated to do better. When this didn't happen it was mostly due to some conflits between peers outside the classroom that they brought into it. The vídeos in the module are so helpful to help me to create a more structured peer assessement and to prevent the possible things that can go wrong.

Margarida Pato

margarida_pato — 2016-06-29 14:33:40 UTC

I think peer assessment is much more effective than teachers'. Students tend to listen more to each other, also as they experience similar difficulties, their feedback is sometimes more helpful. I use lots of peer assess in my classes, especially as interim assessment, to check how things are going.

Doriana, Italy

2016-06-29 15:01:21 UTC

I think that assessment occurs when observing how students' can show to their peers what they have learned. this would help to create a better learning environment and to built students' self-confidence, especially when they have to "produce" something.

Natalja, Lithuania

natalja_svaibovic — 2016-06-29 15:06:08 UTC

I am informatics technologies teacher, so in my case students have to create a various short PBL. Sometimes in the end of the PBL I am using a peer assessments. They have to say some comments or ask the presenter about his work. To give him a few positive and negative reviews. Sometimes I prepare assessment tables and they have to fill it for each person. It is very useful for them to understand how the assessments goes.

Arnaud Perrier, France

2016-06-29 15:20:15 UTC

Pupils are accustomed to make presentations. Classmates give their feedback at the end. Similarly, while a job is done, I often displayed them on the blackboard. The children then come to watch and give their opinions. They discuss, share what they think and why they've done it this way.

Aleksandar,Serbia

aleksandars018 — 2016-06-29 15:40:10 UTC

I use peer assessment in assessing practical work. Group work Each group estimates .This type of evaluation is very good because it gives an excellent impression.Students like to evaluate other for so acting their teachers and sometimes strictly to do.

cimy, Italy

2016-06-29 16:08:11 UTC

I found this document very interesting and inspiring and kept me focused on the real essence of Peer assessment. I've been using Peer Assessment for years and I am convinced that students most of the times are very honest and lucid when it comes to highlighting someone else's work strengths & weaknesses. I've never had problems in using this kind of assessment. I usually provide students with Rubrics and they discuss in groups. Then I give them my feed-back on their assessment and most of the times it's more positive than their own ;). Anyway, this LADDER OF FEEDBACK is awesome and had never considered its visual impact until now. Thanks again!

Caterina Fantini - Italy

cate_67 — 2016-06-29 16:19:24 UTC

Peer assessment was a very interesting experience in this course. I understood that isn't a moment where the teacher or the student correct mistakes, but a constructive moment where you help the others to reflect on their work and do it better. Students become teachers and learn not criticize the others' work, but find positive thing. I'll use it next school year.

Angela Gallo, Italy

2016-06-29 16:19:42 UTC

I found the videos really interesting, because they give us an occasion to reflect on the importance of peer evaluation. I usually use peer assessment and self-assessment in my classes. My students are used to making presentations. They show their group work to their mates who provide feedback. I want them to give constructive feedbacks so that they can help their mates to improve the work done.
What I don't do is the use of tools for peer assessment or rubrics. This is a new challenge for me.

Keratso Geogiadou, Greece

keratsog — 2016-06-29 16:21:52 UTC

When I was at primary school as a student our teacher used to give to the high mark level students to correct the papers of dictation we used to write each day. Everybody was trying to get good marks in order to take this responsibility. I believe this procedure of peer assessment give to the students the motivation and the responsibility to collaborate with their classmates. And I really think this the meaning of the whole story collaboration and improve and do it better through other's reflection.

Vittoria Volterrani

user_1412801285 — 2016-06-29 16:22:29 UTC

My pupils are accustomed to peer assessment, both for normal activities with a summative evaluation, and for projects or activities that require a formative evaluation.
They are accustomed to focus on the activities, giving constructive and critical feedbacks never related to the person, but always to the work done. This allows pupils to feel safe and therefore see fedbacks as an help, not a judgment

Edit Rathne Toth, Hungary

tothedit0610 — 2016-06-29 16:47:06 UTC

Students at my school are not used to peer assessment, because usually it's the teacher who assesses their work or they do self-assessment. Students might be afraid of peer assessment as it can open a forum for sarcasm and criticism. In fact, some students at my school cannot reflect criticism in an intelligent way. But if we do not give them the opportunity and show them the way how to give kind, thoughtful and effective feedbacks, they will never learn it. After watching the videos, and having been participated in it, I find this issue to be very important, especially in PBL.

Vali Pavel, Romania

2016-06-29 16:49:51 UTC

I use peer assessment when composing a text. The students follow criteria I've showed before working. So, after listening their colleagues, they analyse the work and speak their opinion. Peer assessment is a tool when working at the same theme on a project, when solving same problems. But I also think that it must exist a kind of a higher feedback, because kids must learn to use independence of thinking and acting.

Inès Rosado

2016-06-29 17:14:26 UTC

I have used the peer assessment many times among my students. This type of assessment makes my students feel comfortable and somethimes they learn better from their mistakes when a mate explains where the errors are.

Monika Nemeth /Hungary

2016-06-29 17:43:53 UTC

PEER FEEDBACK IS CHECKED FOR RELIABILITY.

The teacher may compare her feedback on an assignment with a student’s feedback to check for alignment and provide
further support and instruction if needed. I use peer assessment by project.

Maria Theodoridou/Greece

2016-06-29 18:08:40 UTC

I have used peer assessment when writing essays or in dictation. I usually ask my students to read and comment on one of their peer's work and he/she does all the editing. But seeing these videos I now know that peer assessment can expand to many more levels. I will definitely try the five steps ladder next school year. I am sure that at the end it will prove very rewarding for my students.

Aneta Popiołek, Poland

2016-06-29 18:10:16 UTC

My students assess the others each time while presenting work group. There are some criteria such as: accordance with the topic, usefulness the collected materials, ways of presenting , etc

Beate Vollmer, Germany

2016-06-29 19:15:44 UTC

Peer assessment I have applied in various ways in my classes. Often homework is checked by a peer before we discuss it in class. Group work is assessed by the other pupils, the 'Think - Pair - Share - Method' is another device I like to make pupils interact and 'correct' themselves. Obviously the video about the Feedback ladder suggests that you should also apply peer assessment throughout a longer work period. I may try out sending one pupil of each group to another group to give them feedback before they finish their learning activity.

Niki Greece

chrysuniki — 2016-06-29 19:20:36 UTC

I have assigned my students to assess the essay of a student of another class, providing them at the same time the criteria on which their evaluation should be established. I discovered that they were very strict and very accurate on their remarks.

Marisa Rocha, Portugal

2016-06-29 19:31:42 UTC

Formative Peer Assessment is extremely effective. In a way, it's what happens between friends in real life! If done well, it's something that can lead to mutual respect and pave the way to success. I try to instil it in my students and use it as often as possible, and I would love to see it being more used among teachers, too. Unfortunately, there's a tendency to take it as criticism, which is why it is vital to have an effective and objective rubric, preferably created by all the parts involved. It's important to make students see that peer assessment leads to improvement - for it to work properly, we have to fight the tendency to a certain "laziness" when looking at other people's work, and also make them realise that, by looking at another person's work you can actually improve your own.

Valeriu Iovan, România

IovanValeriu — 2016-06-29 19:42:25 UTC

I suggest to my students beginners to choose a target for the end of the school year (utility, game, web page interface for robots, posters, leaflets, tales ...). We look at what the product has had to learn (math, info, eco ...).

Virginia Alberti

2016-06-29 19:47:53 UTC

It's not easy to have a real peer review about a project by a group of students for the first time; I think it's useful to share guidelines for reviewing ( checklist to follow or a list of questions

Rita Fagiano, Italy

ritafagiano — 2016-06-29 19:48:11 UTC

I often use peer assessment after a writing activity avoiding students grade their peers ( but they woud like to!). I didn’t know a tool such THE LADDER OF FEEDBACK ; I think it’s a useful means to evaluate an activity, giving to the student the possibility of adjust or integrate it.

Antonia van Duijnhoven, Netherlands

chanja — 2016-06-29 19:50:30 UTC

Peer assessment is more powerful than only feedback from the teacher. Often students forget about what you have talked about. Advice and suggestions for improvement coming from peers are more powerful. I use it after presentations and for reviewing written tasks. Students review the work from other students according to the criteria given. I am often amazed at how strict the students are. I also found that mistakes corrected by fellow students are better remembered than when corrected by the teacher.

Giancarlo Ganapini Italy

2016-06-29 19:59:39 UTC

One of the breakthrough of peer assessment is that students with this repeated-in-time procedure get a clearer idea of what is really needed for a good outcome.

After a while even their vocabulary comes out more naturally and with their kind thoughtful and effective feedbacks they feel more involved into each other’s work.

Every time they receive a meaningful review of their work both the reviewer and the reviewee get a stronger feeling of ownership and satisfaction.

I sometimes make use of peer assessment and self-assessment among my students in my classes. What I feel more challenged about after this course is to make use of rubrics and other tools for peer assessment more frequently than before. I would like to implement this more in my teaching style.

Caterina Poiatti

2016-06-29 20:13:23 UTC

In collaborative activities that propose to my students, carried out by groups of 4 students each, after exposure and my assessment, each student currency and rate each group work, if it believes it can also provide detailed feedback to the benefit of all others .

Angelamaria Galderisi - Italy

2016-06-29 21:08:16 UTC

In each module of this course, I have been called to provide some feedback to my peers and my peers have been called to do the same with my works. This is the first time I have been involved in such kind of activity and I tried it simply smart! In fact, the process of peer assessment has been a powerful learning activity for the reviewer and the reviewee throughout this course. It was really formative to assess peers’ activity, because I reflected on my knowledge and better my competences while assessing and reviewing my peers’ products. Moreover the assessment received by my peers helped me to complete my PBL and reinforce it. So I realized that I have to introduce this kind of formative peer assessment in my classrooms. As far as my PBL is concerned, I think it’s a good idea to integrate peer assessment activities in each TLA I have designed. And this will be the final step of my PBL. ��g\�3�

Giovanna

juana_tanzi — 2016-06-29 21:12:24 UTC

I sometimes use peer assessment especially when students are asked to write a literary essay and I must say that it works very well. I am convinced that students are very honest when they have to highlight someone else's work. Every time I use this kind of assessment I’m satisfied and students are satisfied as well. I usually provide students with rubrics. I’ve never seen the ladder of feedback before and I find it is an important instrument to build an effective peer assessment. This course has been great in this because we have played both the role of the teacher and of the student. So as a student I was impatient to receive my assessment and sometimes I was disappointed but it helped me in revising and implementing my work according to the useful and meaningful review; as a teacher I learned much in doing my assessment because I see what a colleague might do better and at the same time his/her work is inspiring to do better on my own.

Donka Slavcheva, Bulgaria

2016-06-29 21:22:33 UTC

In our educational system has criteria for the number of assessments and percentage written or oral test. Since the introduction of new methods such as multimedia presentations and project work but at school we try to develop our evaluation criteria for testing at these methods and is based on the experience of colleagues from Bulgaria and other countries. In my disciplines I try to teach students to be self-assessment and evaluate each other.

Roberta Guardini, Italy

2016-06-29 21:31:06 UTC

Giving and receiving assessment during this course convinced me that peer assessment really does make learners feel empowered and more responsible for their learning and for my colleagues' work too.
I have never used it in class: I think that the teacher has to think well before trying it out, has to choose an appropriate activity and has to guide students to make sure they learn how to use it effectively. I would like to try it especially in evaluating lab work and lab reports.

Mina,

sminamin — 2016-06-29 22:03:04 UTC

I think peer assessment is useful to create a collaborative working space both for students and teachers. Self assessment encourages students to become independent learners and can increase their motivation. I usually use peer assessment with my students to share remarks and reflections. When I let the students correct each other works and I found that students take a great consideration their classmate’s judgement. It is nice to see students more enthusiastic and focused when the peer review was performed.

Maria Vincenza Giglio, Italy

mariavincenzagiglio — 2016-06-29 22:12:54 UTC

Peer assessment
received and given in this course have been a real gym to understand the focus of the PBL . Develop critical and constructive thinking and the relationship with others. My students do activities between peers , but not their own evaluation . After this experience certainly I propose to my students .

Angela Gordino, Portugal

angelagordino — 2016-06-29 22:47:42 UTC

Thinking of Peer assessment , throughout this course has been done, as many have said before. Regarding my activity as a teacher in my school, and in my School Department, throughout the year we always work collaboratively using peer assessment. We reflect together on what have we planned, what have we achieved, what should we do better, what difficulties to overcome in teaching students and also what has a good feedback from students. Sharing, comparing results, planning activities and assessing them is a part of a daily routine of a teacher.

Isabel Nunes, Portugal

2016-06-29 23:45:28 UTC

The participation of students in evaluative tasks introduces students in the mechanisms of knowledge construction, favoring the student accountability about their own activities and the development of self-control.

From my experience, the peer review features of formative assessment, since it regulates the process of learning contributes to:
- the development of the ability to make judgments before predefined criteria

- the improving performance of peers,

- encourages the self-reliance of apprentices in their learning

- increased accountability for their learning and by its peers

- a real work of collaborative group requires peer review.

On peer review for a feedback is not an easy task, involves having a conception about learning and must be integrated into a teaching contract; should also take into account the individual characteristics of each, the task and the degree of relevance and, above all, must help reorganize and readjust and regulate more effectively the learning.

Eugenia Papanikolaou, GR

eugpapan — 2016-06-30 06:19:25 UTC

I use peer assessment in my class and I have seen that my students are very attentive, accurate and to the point, although they are stricter than me.

Claudia Massaregli

2016-06-30 06:51:57 UTC

I find that peer review is very viable in itinere, because it allows both parties to lead a reflection on their skills . The comparison leads to the improvement, it is always a positive feedback, an opportunity to grow.

Artashes Torosyan, Armenia

2016-06-30 08:13:34 UTC

I agree that peer assessment is a very powerful assessment technique. I'll add my Learning Design this kind of assessment in two directions. Within the group students will assess each other's work. In class one group will assess the work of the other group or groups.

Luis Miguel Miñarro. Spain

lmminarro — 2016-06-30 08:31:21 UTC

When you introduce Peer assessment in your classes you're improving your students' motivation for two different reasons: first, they are really involved in their learning process and in the other hand they cand find a real audience for their work. However you as a teacher must provide the students some guide and instruments to facilitate their reflection.

Gianluca Marano Vercelli Italia

Gianluca_Marano — 2016-06-30 09:11:16 UTC

my experience is based on music production, each student at the end of year should be able to know how to play a piece of music independently and with its own companion. the evaluation is made by their comrades who are the audience at their concerts and suggest the players how to improve their performance.

Lucia,Italy

luciacaccioppoli — 2016-06-30 09:43:12 UTC

as a teacher of a secondary school I often organize peer assessment activities. I give them a grid chart where they can write down their reflections and concerns about their mates' work:what they like or don't like.Then they can discuss with their mates.Most students are more willing to learn from their mates.They can freely discuss on the way to improve the work .Of course,they must be polite and helpful .In my opinion peer assessment also contributes to increase participation, collaboration and most of all self-confidence.

Maria Teresa / Italy

teresarughi — 2016-06-30 09:45:19 UTC

I often use peer assessment for both oral and written activities. This is a way to increase their attention and feel active protagonists in their learning process. Moreover students are given the opportunity to better clarify some important points that the teacher's feedback might have left out.

Francesca, France

LaprofOcchipinti — 2016-06-30 09:46:37 UTC

I find peer assessment useful in class for sommative and formative evaluation. My students can learn to their peers and ask them questions about something they did not understand.

Armando, Italy

2016-06-30 09:52:10 UTC

I often use to ask questions and quick feedback and quizzes to my students during the lectures, but I have not yet used the peer assessment. I think it is worth trying.

Jenny Bolander, Sweden

jenbol0208 — 2016-06-30 10:05:22 UTC

I sometimes use peer assessment while working on writing laboratory reports in my science class. The learners write by them selves first while executing their laboration, then they correct each others reports and give feedback on what could be explained further and last the learner gets it's report back to readjust. It saves me a lot of work, and it gives the learners a greater motivation to write their report correct since another learner will feedback them!

Chiara Sabatini/Italy

2016-06-30 10:27:49 UTC

I sometimes use peer review among my sts and they like it a lot. They learnt how to make commnts without hurting their mates' feelings and are now aware everyone can make a mistake when writing or speaking in English and that we can help each other to do better.

Lefteris Plavos,Greece

plavos_eleftherios — 2016-06-30 10:36:21 UTC

I teach Technology & Project and these two subjects in the Greek educational system leave no room for peer assessment at least up to now. Hopefully, by the end of the course I'll learn more about it and I'll be in a position to integrate it in next year's classes.

Gandolfo, Italy

2016-06-30 10:42:29 UTC

I often use peer assessment with my disabled students, and I have to say that this really helps the students to better understand the assessment process and compare it with the other pupils. For the pupil is a moment of personal growth and helps to understand if has carried out well a task assigned to him.
I am convinced that the assessment, especially for pupils with disabilities who often have low self-esteem, if done correctly, has educational and motivational in nature, as not only helps teachers to adjust its own policy path but, by stimulating the 'self-assessment, you make the students aware of their progress and shortcomings and assumes, therefore, a precious character of reinforcement of self-esteem

Ola Djurić

2016-06-30 11:12:27 UTC

I think peer asesment is very useful. I often let students use the help of their friends. They can ask for support and friends reflections before they hand in they final work. they learn better in that way

Panayiota, Cyprus

y_athanasiou — 2016-06-30 11:58:53 UTC

Peer assessment is really useful. It allows students to improve their work and understand other opinions. They feel much more comfortable to hear criticism from their classmates and they are involved in a really important procedure.

AnnaG, Italy

annag — 2016-06-30 12:35:52 UTC

I didn't know the tool THE LADDER OF FEEDBACK. I think I will introduce it in my teaching, as well as peer assessment. I fell that these choices of mine will improve my students' motivation as they will feel involved in their process of learning

Marina Molla, Greece

mollamarina — 2016-06-30 13:50:44 UTC

Untill a little while ago peer assessment meant for me peer grading one another. Which in reality is not peer assessment. Then I attented my first Moocs in the EUN and started to have a very possitive opinion about it after I have given and received my peer review. So much to gain and to learn if the review is giving constructive feedback. So I started to try and implement it in my classroom but didn't have peer asssessment activities in this way and so specific guidelines for it. The Ladder of Feedback must be a grea tool. I am for sure going to use it next year.

Leonor Vale

2016-06-30 13:51:56 UTC

The teacher peer assessement is not use in my school and it is really difficult to implement due to the emotional reactions associated to this kind of evaluation. Concerning the students peer assessement, some times the teacher ask for an informal and oral feedback from others students' work or if we are using a digital platform, such as Yammer, the students naturally give comments or genuine like the publication, which is a kind of informal evaluation that is more well accepted.

Simonetta Anelli

simonetta_anelli — 2016-06-30 13:53:31 UTC

I attended some courses in European Schoolnet Academy, Coursera and Moodle where there was the peer assessment. It is very useful to create a collaborative group. The peer assessment teached me a lot of thing.

Vincenzo Fino, Italy

vincenzofino — 2016-06-30 14:11:44 UTC

In my experience, peer reviewing and/or assessment are very powerful tools for permanent learning. The students involved in such activities feel much more responsibility toward their mates, so they are pushed to learn more and more deeply to make a good assessment

Elena italy

emaccari — 2016-06-30 14:17:46 UTC

Fortunately i Took advantage. And benefits. From peer. Assessment. Assessment as MY school. Manager. Believes. In This metodologia. And we practice peer. And group. Assessment. Among. Teachers. I also trained about peer Assessment. In many. Moocs. I partecipated last. But. Not least. The ones of EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET ACADEMY (TEACHERACADEMY). I often. Let. MY pupils. Work in peer;onde occasion. In whch I use peer. Assessment. Is when they write. an essay

Nils

2016-06-30 15:15:22 UTC

The students have to get used to it and then it can have a really positive effect.

Annalisa, Italy

sabella2008 — 2016-06-30 15:23:40 UTC

Until now I have never used the peer review because I thought it would be bad accepted by students . But I am now convinced to try it

Alessia Conti Italy

codingID — 2016-06-30 15:29:03 UTC

often use peer tutoring and even peer to peer I feel good if I supervise , as there are unsavory individuals that use it to to take over

Josip

jvranjkovic — 2016-06-30 15:43:30 UTC

I participated in several online education where peer assessment was mandatory. I think the peer assessment is very positive and necessary and I have a very positive experience.

Giusi Veca, Italy

giusiveca — 2016-06-30 16:03:27 UTC

I attended some courses where there was the peer assessment. it is a way to become aware of the levels.

I use it as well with my students. They are happy to make a judgment and are very conscientious in this. In the peer assessment children feel protagonists of their work and help each other more.

Alberico Angelina,Italy

angelina_alberico — 2016-06-30 16:15:02 UTC

With both the P B L and many times, especially in recent years, I have used the peer. It is the assessment that students make the work of their peers. It serves mainly to encourage the independence, to stimulate higher thinking skills (analysis and synthesis), to understand the process of assessment, to learn to evaluate themselves and to acquire tools for lifelong assessment of both their own business or that of others
The peer review takes place before the assessment phase; students must be involved in the definition of the evaluation criteria and the selection of the main elements that indicate the achievement of results.
To avoid errors of assessment, the teacher should assign the same tasks to more tudenti evaluators with so and so many teacher's supervision.

Rosário Félix

mrlfaria — 2016-06-30 17:06:23 UTC

4.3 Peer Assessment for PBL

I realized, sometimes, the peer assessment. I found that some students have the ability to make a constructive assessment, giving ideas to improve. However there are other students who do an evaluation, not based on the work but according to the friendships , not being an effective evaluation.

Teresa Maia, Portugal

mariateresalcobia — 2016-06-30 17:18:00 UTC

I have attended to courses with peer assessment activities, and must I confess at first it was a bit difficult to me. But then I understand that I could help my peers and help myself because these activities oblige me to reflect not only about my peers work but also about my own work. If we use the “Ladder of feedback” purposed by David Perkins, peer assessment can be a successful activity for both: the person who makes the assessment and the person who is assessed.
In recent years, I have been trying to implement peer assessment with my students. These activities need to be monitored by the teacher, but they are very useful to engage students in their own learning process.

Nuno Proença, Portugal

profnunoproenca — 2016-06-30 17:18:22 UTC

My experience with peer formative assessment is bipolar. They don't differentiate the formal and the emotional sides. Their feedback can be very cruel of very supportive , depending on the social/informal relations they have with each other.

Mario Yúfera, Spain

2016-06-30 17:24:20 UTC

I've never organized peer assessment activities with my students. I haven't felt confident to do them. In this course I've realized that peer assessment is a powerful tool to improve my own work because in my reviews to other teachers I've clarified many of my own ideas and I've also recieved some good feedback.

Giuseppina Serini,Italy

prof_g_serini — 2016-06-30 17:26:47 UTC

In my opinion engage students in the evaluation process is an important motivating factor, which stimulates both the active participation in the learning group in order to acquire the skills needed to evaluate the designs of others, and the desire to produce high-quality processed to make "good impression" against the class, even more than to the tutor, triggering a virtuous competition processes. Regarding the motivational aspects should not be underestimated the change in the sense of responsibility that is to have among students: they are called to play an important role, and weight awareness of their judgment is one of the first factors that cause aging .
The peer review can occur in many different ways, I have already experienced two modes. The first is to ask a group of students to network their own work and then do evaluate, on the basis of a grid of criteria, to one or more groups; The tutor then collects the feedback of all and makes it a budget. The other mode is to ask a group of students to read a passage and comment critically through a special form, which incorporates a grid of criteria to which students must follow.
What do you think?
What do you suggest?

Lucia Leoncini Sundholm. In my opinion, peer assessment is not very much used in the right way in most Italian secondary schools, so it is not as effective as it could be. We have to work on that and hopefully it will work better in the furure! :-)

2016-06-30 17:36:33 UTC

José Guerrero (Spain)

2016-06-30 17:38:40 UTC

I have tried to use peer assessment in my class, but in the end it didn’t work properly, I wasn’t sure how to do it. But after reading the link above I feel more confident to implement this kind of assessment in class.

Last year I did a MOOC about etwinning and it was my first experience about peer assessment. At that time I realized how effective it was. In this course about PBL, I have assured myself that it is an excellent way of learning. You learn from the comments from your peers, but you also learn when you assess other’s work.

Andrea Checchetti, Italy

dreache — 2016-06-30 17:43:45 UTC

Peer assessment becomes necessary when you have to reach a goal. All forms of discussions or collaborations to perform a task can help every student to understand if your way of learning is similar or different and at the same time developing the self-assessment, identifying those that are the strengths and weaknesses of your own way to operate.

sofia aroso, Portugal

sofia_aroso — 2016-06-30 17:51:12 UTC

This was my first course with peer assessment. I found it really amazing! I´ve learned with the reviews I made and with the reviews my colleagues made. I´ve learned more with peer assessment than I would learn with a grade in the end of the course.

Sara Viotti, Italy

sara_viotti — 2016-06-30 19:31:14 UTC

When I was a child, in the primary school my teacher used peer assessment! I was expected to review a mate's work, but she had to "correct" another girl's one. I remember we hadn't no criteria to follow, only to read and decide if ortography or sums were well. However, that system was successfull: I learned more and more from other pupils. Now I'm here, using a tool thar in 60 we could not imagine one day would exist, sharing reflections with peers. As a teacher, I've used a few times this kind of assessment. As Lucia LEoncini writes here, in Italy we have to work more on that in the secondary school.

Brigitta Koncz

2016-06-30 19:54:16 UTC

I like to see new students as at the beginning of the year they are very suspicious about how can a poorer student assess them , or even make any positive or negative comment on their work. As time goes by they learn to listen to each other, trust each other and rely on each other. I've never thought that friendships and empathy can be born out of peer assessment :)

Chiara - Italy

ch_ferronato — 2016-06-30 20:24:01 UTC

Peer assessment is quite "normal" in my classes as I've been using it for many years. Great way to involve children in their learning paths! Sometimes I need to explain parents and colleagues the importance of it because in Italy it isn't so common!

Maria / UK Peer assessment can take some time; a) for the assessor to give constructive feedback ( we avoid tension by avoiding anything that could be interpreted as negative) to peers and b) for the recipient to take the feedback seriously and usefully. This needs to considered carefully and the feedback ladder gives the students structured guidance in doing this....

2016-06-30 20:27:31 UTC

Giampaolo, Italy

giampaolo_squarcina — 2016-06-30 20:40:10 UTC

I often use peer assessment in my classroom: for example, pupils must switch their exercises and correct a work by someone else, or they make a general assessment of the products realized, for example via poll/survey.

Caterina Musmeci, Italy

kmusmeci — 2016-06-30 21:07:13 UTC

In my experience I used the peer and the self assessment often because, in my opinion, is very instructive and does accept the mistake with less anxiety. In my Learning Design I used peer assessment.

Ilaria/Italy

2016-06-30 21:08:11 UTC

I think that peer assessment is a natural outcome of PBL method...iin a collaborative climate and way of working.

Simona Curreli (Italy)

simonacurreli — 2016-06-30 21:30:50 UTC

I think that in my country it is not so common to use peer assessment because parents and other teachers do not think that students can do a good job with self assesment.
I did not gain long-standing experience in teaching but after this course I will integrate peer assessment in my lessons. I will use the Ladder Feedback and maybe I will divided students in couples and one will assess the other's task.

Athina, Greece

aginoudi — 2016-06-30 22:16:00 UTC

I try to use the peer assessment technique but it doesn’t work always perfect. I think it depends on the topic and on the specific activity. But if it works it is very useful for the students, because they learn of each other. styl��h�

Rosa Gaspar

luisasgaspar67 — 2016-06-30 23:34:42 UTC

I participated in several online education seminars and learning events where peer assessment was mandatory. I think the peer assessment is very positive and necessary and I have a very positive experience.

Angeliki Kougiourouki

akougiou — 2016-07-01 05:13:13 UTC

I have paricipated several times in MOOCs or seminars where I had to use peer assessment. I have to admit that the positive comments and the feedback I received helped me improve my work. Certainly it was a useful experience which I sometimes apply in my classroom without using grades or something official. This course is a challenge for me to start using a peer assessment with my pupils using much more rubrics.

Sevi, Greece

2016-07-01 05:50:12 UTC

I have experiences peer assessment during the MOOCs that I take part in lately.
The last years I try to do peer assessment in the class just by asking students what they think about their classmates work. I will definitely use this method next year in my classes.

Serdal Şeker

serdalseker29 — 2016-07-01 06:23:03 UTC

Peer assesment is not generally used in Turkey.

Catarina Rodrigues, Portugal

canrodrigues — 2016-07-01 07:08:03 UTC

This was my first time in a peer assessment experience and it's being great! I learned a lot as evaluator and as assessed. I loved it.
However, as someone said, we must prepare students for this path in their first years in school. Doing that we will prepare them for being reflexive adults.
Next year I will introduce peer assessment in my department (within my group of teachers) and will try to introduce it in the classroom.

Kristina Bernane Latvia

2016-07-01 07:09:35 UTC

We used self assessment more than peer assessment in preschool project work

Oleg Pasz

2016-07-01 07:23:45 UTC

I often use peer assessment in technical drawings. Sudents check each other drawings and write what is wrong, what is missing. They learn the rules of tehcnical drawing and are better to find their own mistakes.

Miroslava Takeva, Bulgaria

newfoundland30 — 2016-07-01 07:45:48 UTC

I have some experience with peer assessment both as a participant in peer assessment with other teachers and organizing such activities with my students. I find The Critical Friends Protocol (also called Tuning protocol) really useful in terms of giving feedback diplomatically and improving your work based on it

EVANTHIA KONTOGOURI, GREECE

evikont5 — 2016-07-01 08:13:05 UTC

On this course, my experience of peer assessment is exactly what the students describe in the second video. When I implemented it in the class, for the first time , I found out that manystudents were not mature enough to use it effectively. They had to be trained of how to use it, so as not to offend, or not just say "it's OK".

Daniela Usmiani/Croatia

ddanci — 2016-07-01 08:25:28 UTC

I use peer assesment ofen.When ss present to us theirt work /for example ppt) othera make comments and they like it very much.

Margarida Almeida, Portugal

2016-07-01 08:32:49 UTC

Peer assessment is a process that I use constantly in the classroom. It allows students to have awareness of their work, respect for the opinions of others, learn to share, learn to listen, know how to give positive reinforcement, instill moral values, know they can fail and learn from this, gain confidence and resilience .

Anna Drakotou, Greece

anna_drakotu — 2016-07-01 09:01:40 UTC

Whenever I use peer assessment with my 15-17 year-old students it is via tests on the day's lesson or a short writing.Still, most students do not take it seriously, do not follow the instructions or the criteria given and we end up with an overall checking directed by the teacher. It is time consuming. Peer teaching should be practised a lot before students take it seriously and not only by one or two teachers out of forty! Our education is mainly based on summative testing and students value more grading by teachers than peers.

Bruna Rotondi, Italy

rotondi_bruna — 2016-07-01 09:04:56 UTC

I use Peer Assessment at the end of a project e.g when students present a final product or give a presentation.I realize now that this is not enough and that I should be using this powerful tool to focus more on the " process of critique ."

VLAD EUGENIA IOANA, Romania

2016-07-01 09:14:52 UTC

This year i used a peer assessment at the end of a unity and my students present a project from where i also understand thet they didn`t understand very well what they should do.And i learnt that i must give more examples.

MARCOFELICE, Italia

marcotomasoni — 2016-07-01 10:02:15 UTC

the process is absolutely critical training for boys. I think That peer assessment ideal for PBL, a collaborative climate and way of working.

Ayşe Gül Özbilen /Turkey

ayshezbil — 2016-07-01 10:12:00 UTC

Peer assessment is also shows us what we learn, what we understand. because when we assess a collique!s work, we are using our knowledge. So peer assessment also is a self assessment

Francoise Altamura

sefralt — 2016-07-01 10:19:06 UTC

my assessment is essentially oral because I teach French conversation. I always try to take a positive attitude, valuing and appreciating what makes the student to gratify his self-esteem .

When I try to involve students in their own assessment, they respond that they do not know assessed, even if I drive them, suggesting the criteria to be taken into account.
Instead, if I ask the comrades, then these offer a very high rating, only for sustaining the student. it is hard to engage and involve the student in his assessment.

sonia_galderisi — 2016-07-01 11:13:31 UTC

sonia_galderisi — 2016-07-01 11:51:08 UTC

Sonia Galderisi, Italy

Peer assessment provide a powerful avenue for students to receive feedback on their learning. Peer assessment procedures increase responsability for others, improve learning, communicative and interaction skills.

I use peer assessment at the end of a project and my students are asked to provide assessment on their friends as well as themselves. There are a number opportunities for assessment in PBL and the giving and the receiving of feedback and the feedforward to students throughout the project is embedded in PBL process. Strategies, such as rubrics, open ended questions, dialogic teaching, success criteria, the use if technology and tuning protocols can be used to scaffold and support these processes to ensure the assessment is constructive.

Esther Rodríguez, Spain

2016-07-01 11:51:54 UTC

I would like to share a experience which uses a lot of peer assessment activities. To improve our pupils teaching spelling we are using "Gabarró method". It is a method created by a catalan teacher using Neurolinguistic Programming (PNL in spanish) to improve spelling. It's created to help pupils to improve their spelling helping them to improve their visual intelligence, because they think pupils who fail in spelling is because they use more the auditory (hearing?)learning style instead of visual. So, within activities in pairs, games, dictations, and fostering peer assessment too they can improve spelling in a 80% in a few months... We are using it with our older students and it's very interesting...
About my own experience with peer assessment these days we are preparing some manipulative material to work "the sentence" in English for our next course. Our idea is helping children to be more responsible in their learning process and they should create/build sentences about topics we are working in the class following easy step-by-step reflection guides: "Remember a sentence begins with capital letter" "Remember the last word should have a dot" ... All the pupils choose an envelope from the box. They get an envelope with a number on it. It has got a sentence inside (different plastified words). They have got too an assessment sheet where they would colour the number done if the sentence is right at the end of the process. The first step is to build a real sentence on the table with the plastified pieces of paper. Then we need a "peer review", his/her partner check if it's right following the guide on the table ...they comment why do they thnk about the sentence and why it accomplishes (or not) the guide. If the partner thinks it is right then the pupils can write the sentence in their "sentence diary" in the line beside the number they choose and they partner draw a happy face beside, to guarantee his/her approval. Finally the teacher confirm the sentence and pupils can colour the number finished in his chart, so it's easy to see how many numbers (envelopes) are missing. When they finish one sentence they stand up and go to change the envelope and make another sentence.
We have tried this technique in Catalan teaching with the 2nd grade and we are really proud ot the good results. Now we will try it in English with the 3rd grade. As they are trained to make the peer assessment part we think it can be easy to do it in English. I think peer assessment helps pupils to share while doing, help each other and specially to take responsability in the assessment of other person, following a clear critwria which help them to make them aware ond more conscious of their own learning acquisitions.
I hope you understand all the process (in my head is very clear :) )

Antonietta Guida, Italy

Italianteacher — 2016-07-01 12:27:35 UTC

I constantly use peer assessment in my classes as I consider it a very powerful technique especially in a PBL process because it makes students aware of their progress. At the end of each unit or step I provide my students with a short discussion activity which allows the groups and the class to share experiences and to improve their work. On the other hand the teacher has a feedback to give further instructions.

Sara Personeni, Italy

personeni_sara — 2016-07-01 12:46:12 UTC

Sometimes I've realized peer assessment can be more useful than teacher one; peers could use language, strategies and techniques like that of student at issue. As someone partecipating in this course I've got a lot of very useful and specific tips about my project. A heartful thanks to all my peers!

Ivana Štiglec,Croatia

2016-07-01 13:16:33 UTC

I often use peer assessment in my teaching-when students do some communicative activities,e.g.role-plays, other students have to assess them according to certain criteria.They also sometimes assess each other's essays.Regarding peer assessment on this course I found it very useful and helpful-with their assessment and suggestions other teachers made it possible to me to look at things from another angle and sometimes think out of the box.

Annalisa A.

isaese77 — 2016-07-01 13:33:13 UTC

I have often used peer assessment but I've never heard of Ladder of feeedback before! It's very useful to monitor the hole process.

Cristina/Pisa, Italy

2016-07-01 13:49:46 UTC

I think that peers assessment is very useful because pupils have just gone through the same learning process and can sometimes better understand their peers' mistakes, moreover some shy pupils may accept more easily a comment from a peer, a classmate rather than a teacher. I ad never heard about the assessment ladder though.

Roberta, Italy

r_signorino — 2016-07-01 14:43:49 UTC

I totally agree with what the teachers say in the videos: I often use self assessment and peer assessment in my lessons, particularly after students have presented a project (a poster, padlet or powerpoint). It's surprising to see how tactful and at the same time honest students can be when judging each other's work. It's like the male teacher in the video says: It's amazing to see that students often say what the teacher would say, sometimes even in a much better way!
I didn't know about the ladder of feedback, it's a very useful tool which I'm certainly going to use in class.

Maite Arias, Italy

2016-07-01 15:03:19 UTC

I have been using summative peer assessment for some time, after having watched
these videos and experimented formative peer assessment in this course I realize the enormous value that peer assessment gives to both of the parts. I'm looking forward to find ways to implement it in class. The ladder of feedback seems to be very useful and easy to use.

Catello de Sinno - Italy- Peer assessment is a very effective motivating factor in the evaluation process. Traditional evaluation is often not well accepted by the students who feel under close observation and therefore inhibited or blocked by the fear of being wrong. Peer assessment makes them feel more at ease and stimulates an active participation in the learning group. The peer review can occur in many ways but the role of the teacher is fundamental in order to work out a grid of criteria students have to follow.

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Arianna from Italy

arix — 2016-07-01 16:27:24 UTC

I always use peer assessment in my teaching: students are aware of their learning process, they have respect for their classmates opinions.

LenaR, Greece

rossiou — 2016-07-01 16:52:41 UTC

As I have mentioned in previous activity 4.2. section I do use Kahoot.it! and Debono 6 Thinking Hats

Vassiliki Yiannou, Greece

2016-07-01 17:14:36 UTC

What I sometimes used in classroom was summative peer assessement and as it was said in the second video, that didn't make sense to the students. I' ll try to use the Ladder of feedback and some assessement rubrics espessially in my language lessons, as I think peer assessement really hepls students understand what they have to answer in each test or exam and it stenghtens their colaboration.

Tonia- Italy

tonia_calo — 2016-07-01 17:51:38 UTC

In these last year I have learnt a lot about new assessing methods thanks to my partners in the eTwinnig projects. So now for me it is a daily practice letting students assess their peers’ tasks using grids or ladders we created together before starting to fulfill the required final task

Claudia Massaregli

2016-07-01 18:09:40 UTC

Peer assessments are very useful ! The process of peer assessment or peer review can be a powerful learning activity for the reviewer and the reviewee.

Isabel Sousa, Portugal

isamsousa — 2016-07-01 18:28:22 UTC

In my classes I use “informal” peer assessment, when I ask students to discuss others opinions about a problem, but I never applied peer assessment in a written work.

Athina Kossyvaki, Thessaloniki, Greexe

akossyv — 2016-07-01 18:51:38 UTC

Peer assessment is very useful tool. I always want to read my peers assessment in this course. As a teacher I try to use it in my classes. Next year it would be very interresting to use The Ladder of Feedback.

Angela Antonucci, Italy

2016-07-01 18:54:47 UTC

My experience of participating in peer assessment activities on this PBL course is very positive. Exchanging feedback on our own works helps us to enrich our reflections on our work. I sometimes used a form of peer assessment in the classroom but I noticed that existing friendship relations interfere with fair peer assessment and usually students lack experience or knowledge to carry out properly the task. I think I'll discuss the problem with my students first and make sure they understand it's just a way to provide feedback in order to do better. Peer assessment can be a powerful tool to deepen students' understanding of their learning process.

Angela Salvato, Italy

angelasalvato24 — 2016-07-01 19:04:10 UTC

Browsing some website I ran across this:https://www.cte.cornell.edu/teaching-ideas/assessing-student-learning/peer-assessment.html

From the website I would like to underline this words." Consider breaking a larger assignment into smaller pieces and incorporating peer assessment opportunities at each stage. For example, assignment outline, first draft, second draft, etc."

Yes! It's so simple but not so intuitive and ... I have never thought about that! ....to divide the large assignments into smaller ones in order to give students the opportunity to share their progresses and their day by day improvements.
Some more useful tips:
What should you consider when incorporating peer-assessment?

Let students know the rationale for doing peer review; explain the expectations and benefits of engaging in a peer review process.

Consider having students evaluate anonymous assignments for more objective feedback.

Be prepared to give feedback on students’ feedback to each other.
Display some examples of feedback of varying quality and discuss which kind of feedback is useful and why.

Give clear directions and time limits for in-class peer review sessions and set defined deadlines for out-of-class peer review assignments.

Listen to group feedback discussions and provide guidance and input when necessary.Student familiarity and ownership of criteria tend to enhance peer assessment validity; therefore, involve students in a discussion of the criteria used.

Students have more experience with academic tasks; therefore, be cautious about having them peer-assess professional tasks: choose tasks that lie within their relative experiential base.

Encourage students to take more individual responsibility by not having multiple peers assess the same task.

Marica, Croatia

mjurec — 2016-07-01 19:41:51 UTC

I often use peer assessment in my class. It`s a great way to involve students in their learning paths. The students are very motivated for this and quite objective.

MIhaela Popescu, Romania

2016-07-01 19:42:00 UTC

As a participant in this course, I find peer assessment useful as my peers made some adequate suggestions that gave me an

Mihaela Popescu, Romania

2016-07-01 19:45:16 UTC

As a participant in this course, I found all my peers' suggestions really useful, giving me a deep insight into the issue under discussion and helping me to reflect and improvemy teaching techniques. Indeed,I find peer assessment related to my students' work useful and challenging for them, making them more competitive, responsibile and more aware of certain criteria which are to be followed when assessing.

Thersa from Italy

thersaiovine — 2016-07-01 20:19:30 UTC

This course made me realize how important it is to work in partnership with colleagues and how the advice and suggestions lead us to improve our work. For my part, I have always tried to enhance the work that I had to fix without too much negative criticism.

Ana David, Portugal

ana_david1971 — 2016-07-01 20:42:12 UTC

As a participant in this course, I found my peers' suggestions useful, and because of that I followed them and applied them in the best way I could. They improved my teaching methods and taught me new ways to motivated students. With my students, I think that peer assessment is useful and important for them, because it can make them more dedicated, responsible and aware of the criteria that's being used to assess them.

Giovanna Berardo

2016-07-01 21:14:03 UTC

As a participant in this course I found peer assessment activities definitely important for my learning process because I could reflect more on my own work though peer review and improve it. I have never done it before and I really appreciate it. As a teacher I organized peer assessment activities during the last school year at the end of a students'cooperative work. Each group orally presented its own work to the class and the rest of the students gave feedbacks. In most of the cases it was useful and students actively partecipated in the task, but in a few cases students tryed to make fun of some classmates.

Ivana Ľuptáčiková

2016-07-01 21:19:10 UTC

In Slovakia, peer assessment is realized occasionally because our school system prefer summative assessment. I try to do this kind of assessment during group work or after a presentation as often as possible. When my students finish their homework project (not PBL), they present it before class. After that other students give assessment which contain answer to two things - what did I like and what should do to become better in future.

isacassandra — 2016-07-01 21:31:16 UTC

Elena Sanesi, Italy

elesanesi — 2016-07-01 21:36:33 UTC

I find evaluation of peer very effective , but in class I used very little . Need: a very good climate in class, not competitive and a good organization and conduction from the teacher. f�6�=#�

Cinzia Masia, Italy.

attasonitabas — 2016-07-01 21:46:50 UTC

Peer assessment is really useful in class because it helps students to compare and reflect on their own mistakes . I usually ask my students to do it with their homeworks, so in class they have to exchanges copybooks and check if they are correct for istance. Peer assessment can be considered a way to reingorce students's acquisition precess

Sharon, Australia

2016-07-02 05:09:03 UTC

As a participant in this course I found the peer assessment/review incredibly useful and also non-threatening. I was comfortable being reviewed and also felt empowered by the suggestions and feedback made about my work. As for my students, I work with Year 2 primary aged students and peer assessment is done in a 'playful' manner whereby students work in pairs and share their ideas and feedback using smiley faces and other images rather than a grade.

Sophia Kouzouli, Greece

sophiakouz — 2016-07-02 05:31:18 UTC

I have always used peer assessment in my class.

As for the learners I find it very constructive because the become more autonomous, responsible and independent.

In the past I had a wonderful collaboration with a colleague who worked at the same school and we often visited each other's classroom for peer observation. It was worthwhile!

Rita Ferretti, Italy

blu_rita — 2016-07-02 05:40:40 UTC

In this year my pupils often use peer assessment and peer review, students work in pairs and share their feedback using emoticon. For me peer assessment is an attractive way to engage and motivate students during their learning. It is really useful because it helps students to compare and reflect about their own competences and mistakes. �

emma giurlani Italia

2016-07-02 06:17:19 UTC

I teach German as foreign language in Italy and I ‘m a convinced eTwinner (as I have already said many times).The experiences I made thanks to the etwinning projects I realized with my european partners taught me that students can be undoubtedly a powerful ressource for each other by helping each other to improve their own work. We usually use peer assessment during our etwinning projects: We(my project colleagues and me) try to create a sort of rubric with our students and then they try to assess reciprocally the work inside the group and the work each group has done. We have actually observed that this way they really received a mutual benefit. We could also observe as a matter of fact that by thinking through the whole process the peers have done in order to come to a tangible result they help them (and at the same time themselves) to see and to fix stenghts and weakness of the hole process reinforcing the first ones and helping to find solutions for the second ones. They can relay on each other and by working together and through this kind of dialogue they can be thoroughly and completely involved in their indipendent learning process. They feel more confortable with peer assessment because they can accept it easier, and without fear to be judged, an informal assessment coming from their peers. Beside that it let them understand better others’ opinion and to develop empathic and critical thinking in a creative and indipendent way

Through peer assessment we could also become more clear to ourself about our teaching process as well. I had really great benefits, during this and other similar courses, from our peer to peer reviewing of our leanrning designers , I really appreceated my peers’ suggestions about any activities I could have improved. I received and tryed to give kind thoughtful and effective and useful feedback. Actually this is the part I apreceated most because it was the biggest challenge for me

Katya Ilieva, Bulgaria

katia75ilieva — 2016-07-02 07:06:58 UTC

The peer assessment is unavoidable part in every activity which includes team work. Receiving assessment is important not only for the students who are working on a project,but also for the teachers. In my opinion it is advisable to look trough the peer assessment all the time during a project, because this way we can follow the students interests and go further on the work of their weak and strong areas.

Kleri, Greece

evriklia19 — 2016-07-02 08:50:48 UTC

I always motivate my students to look criticaly at their own work and the work of the others. Especially during the projects I do try to make pauses and start a conversation about what we have done till this point, what went wrong, what was successful, what improvements sould we make and so on, Everybody has to tell his opinion and express themselve. They are becoming more mature and like this way of working together. But I think after this course I am going to pay more attention to self- and peer assessment and try to use more methods and tools.

Simone/Italy

2016-07-02 09:02:39 UTC

My students often do peer assessment because I strongly bealive in it. I use a sort of ladder of feedback as shown in the video and it helps my students to reach their goals.

Bartolomeo Corbo - Italy

bartolomeo_corbo — 2016-07-02 09:58:52 UTC

I am sure peer assessment is an excellent method to improve the skills of students. But I recognize that I do not use it often. Sometimes it has happened that I used it in the classroom by making observations to the tasks of the companions, or I asked to my students to do it within the workin groups. But of course for me is not an established method.

In this course I I was able to see how this method aid to recognize your mistakes and correct them without the worry of receiving a judgment , in a relaxed and friendly situation. Of course correction must occur between people who accept the advice of their peers.

Emanuela Filippo, Italy

2016-07-02 10:52:35 UTC

I have already used im my classes a sort of peer assessment and it was successful because my students are often interested only in their quote and not in their learning. I will improve such a method of peer assissmnet through the Ladder of feedback. Thanks

Elena FP, Italy

2016-07-02 11:07:07 UTC

Peer assessment is not commonly used at school, in Italy at least. I have tried it during CLIL classes though, and regularly as part of the Comenius/Erasmus+ projects activities,to provide constant evaluation and feedback on the project themselves.

Víctor Fernández, Spain.

Victor84 — 2016-07-02 11:35:54 UTC

I think peer assessment is suitable to improve the student skills and in order not to repeat mistakes. I am going to use it more in the future.

Anna Marisa, Italy

2016-07-02 12:48:42 UTC

I've really experienced the real peer assesment during this course. I have felt involved in the peer revision either as partecipating both as someone who has to review the other participant works. I Italy there isn't this kind of approach because the teacher is considerated who that does the assement at all. I will use the Ladder of feedback with my students

Luisa Pascarella, Italy

luisapascarella1965 — 2016-07-02 12:54:20 UTC

Peer and self-assessment involve students in the indipendent process of learning. This method guides students to generate a thoughtful and effective feedback.

Dylan Hyman, The Netherlands

dylanhyman — 2016-07-02 13:00:40 UTC

I've used peer assessment in my primary class for years, but actually summative. Like giving comment after a book report. I see this formative assessment as giving real opportunities!

I have also learned, during this course, that you need to monitor the feedback that peers are giving each other and set standards. I have had the most amazing, reflective responses to my work and I have had some responses that I found so short and unclear that it seemed a bit rude. I think students will feel the same way if their peers do not really make to effort to reflect on the work they do, so this course has given me valuable experience.

Sara De Santis, Italy

desanti56 — 2016-07-02 13:14:01 UTC

Again, we need to experience something to deeply understand what it is. We have been doing peer assessment during this course, and we were given guiding criteria. This is the best teachment, together with best practices from the videos above.
Now we have to contestualise it in our class.
Thanks for this course!

Elisabetta Cuccus, Italy

2016-07-02 15:03:28 UTC

I especially liked the "rules" you gave us to assess peer work in this course: it is really important to be kind and constructive in the review, if you want it to be effective. I really appreciate the Ladder as a guide to peer feedback and I also agree with those who think that the teacher should go around the class and take care that the feedback is given correctly in the groups, in order for it to be formative. I want to thank again my reviewers in this course, because they were of great help for the improvement of my Learning Design, and I hope to have been of some help for those people whose work I reviewed.

As regards my experience with peer reviewing with kids at school, they tend to be very strict with their classmates and not to appreciate what has been achieved, but peer assessment is a strategy to be learned and I think rubrics created with the kids themselves can be of great help. 0U000UK�1L ��

Maria Teresa Asprella Libonati, Italy

mariateresa_as1 — 2016-07-02 15:43:07 UTC

I think the peer assessment is very useful to make students reflect on their work. It needs a good climate in the classroom and good social skills by students.

Zaklina Kolevska, Macedonia

2016-07-02 15:45:11 UTC

The aim of the peer assessment among other things is to check how the students will react on the given and received feedback. In order to be as relevant as possible, they may prepare criteria for review and a table for evidence of the scores.

Gordana Popovic, Serbia

teachergordanap67 — 2016-07-02 15:54:02 UTC

Peer assessment, as everything else, should be taught. Therefore, it is very important that teachers know how to provide meaningful feedback to students and thus show them how it is done. My students are sometimes reluctant to verbalize their opinion so they need a little encouragement. I find the Ladder of Feedback a great tool and I'm going to use it to help my students learn how toprovide constructive feedback.

Amélia Vilarinho, Belgium

vilarinhamelia — 2016-07-02 15:54:32 UTC

Exchanging points of view is a natural process in team work, either as a student or as a teacher. However, p2p review is much more than that. You allow yourself to have your work reviewed by your peers and you commit yourself to give a helpful and constructive review to your peer’s work. In my opinion, this is a powerful formative kind of assessment.

My experience in this Course has been helping me to learn how enriching it can be, both for me and my colleagues with whom I had the opportunity to “collaborate”. In P2P reviews, we become resources for each other through a process of kind, thoughtful and effective feedback i.e. constructive critic regarding crucial points of our work in order to improve self and group learning.

To make my reviews, I also had to improve my understanding of their work to be able to give a fair and reasonable feedback. Having their reactions was very rewarding.

Implementing peer review assessment in our PBL practice will be much more meaningful since we experienced it ourselves. Learning by doing!

Patrizia Roma, Italy

patrizia_roma60 — 2016-07-02 15:54:54 UTC

My first attempt at self and peer assessment with students has been on a group task, their assignment was to make a book trailer. To help the final evaluation process I prepared a self assessment and a peer assessment form. I found it very useful to get information about their performances and they accepted their final grades more willingly. Next time I want to prepare these forms for formative assessment too and build them together with the students.

Myriam, Italy

2016-07-02 16:10:35 UTC

I sometimes use peer assessment, but not always. I believe it is useful and has a greater impact on the students than formal assessment by teachers. It needs to be implemented regularly and introduced gradually into teaching since students are not used to it and need to be guided at first. I do believe that better results can be reached in this way.

Carla Gonçalves, Portugal

2016-07-02 17:41:55 UTC

I've tried a few times to use this type of assessment ...

However not had the desired effect because the students were not ready. Many have commented quite disparaging about the work of colleagues. I believe that I also was not properly prepared to implement and monitor the process. I should have established rules ...

With regard to peer assessment carried out under this program, I liked to see my work reviewed and commented by my colleagues. It was also very rewarding to see and comment on the work of colleagues, which forced me to try to understand their point of view and that often led to the reformulation of my own work.
I think it's all a learning process through which they can develop to such self and observer, the capacity for analysis and synthesis, among others.

Renato Oliveira, Portugal

renat — 2016-07-02 17:45:50 UTC

I don´t have the habit to use the peer assessement in my classroom systematically. Why? I never thought much about it, that is, already thought but always thought it would be a waste of time.
But after seeing the videos, I changed my mind and I will use in my classes.

Catarina Pinheiro, Portugal

2016-07-02 17:51:42 UTC

Well… I did not promote peer assessment in my classes… So I’ll report to the experience I’m having with peer assessment in this course. Acting as a student, I have to say it really works! Others can look at my work from the outside and enlighten various aspects that I couldn't figure out. All of the comments I received were important. But I would like to focus on the importance of reviewing someone’s work. It’s demanding, makes us look closely; think about how we can help our colleague. It is quite exigent. And it makes you look at your own work with another set of eyes. It's a very enriching experience!

Romina, Italy

rominatanzi — 2016-07-02 17:53:42 UTC

I am very interested in a such way to involve student sin assessment. I never tried it before.
I like a lot the ladder of feedback. Next year, I will use it!!

Maria Amalia Vergoula, Greece

maria_amaliav — 2016-07-02 18:10:15 UTC

I have used peer assessment in the past in my classroom, especially when teams of students presented their work. However, as other activities, the outcome of peer assessment will depend on the way the students accept it. Relationships between them often influence the outcome.

Valeriu Iovan

IovanValeriu — 2016-07-02 18:14:33 UTC

In formal education, combine the two forms, formative and summative. We demand and papers, articles, essays, lecture notes.

Lucia Letizia, Italy

2lucia_letizia — 2016-07-02 18:19:25 UTC

I believe that the peer review represents a winning education strategy, because the student that evaluates simultaneously reflects on what he learned and continues to learn. I also think that peer review stimuli attention, reflection, responsibility. I haven’t experience about, but when I will have to implement this strategy, I will provide to the students a simple rubric to help them in their work, there also will be a part in which the pupils can say everything they think and that I have not considered. Children often think things that adults can not even imagine.

Ines Matušin, Croatia

matusina123 — 2016-07-02 19:03:57 UTC

I believe that peer assessment can be useful method to make our students more interested in what they are learning. but it shouldn't be used too much because the teacher would loose its role as a main assessor. Peer assessment can be done after certain oral or written presentation and some creative activities.

FrancescaG, Italy

francescagiala8 — 2016-07-02 19:32:56 UTC

I sometimes use peer assessment. My students present their work to their classmates and receive feedback on it.
I think is important give students the opportunity to assess themselves.

Filomeni, Gree

2016-07-02 19:43:22 UTC

I've used peer assessment quite a lot in my classes over the years and I'd say peer assessment works really good.Students accept their friends' or classmates' criticism easier. However, the teacher has to provide a frame for them to report to, otherwise they may be dragged to skipping the assessment or giving some light-hearted comment. We always have to be careful, too, in case some students get intimidated in front of a peer group.

Barbara -Greece

varzantrav — 2016-07-02 22:25:00 UTC

Very fruitful experience for us teachers first of all. The problem is that we lack most of the times what we call an 'Asssessment culture', which is we are not accistomed or trained to assessed. At least that is the case in the Greek educational system. Our pupils and the teachers firrst of all need to be trained to accept assessment , and peer assessment .we have still a long way to go...and we need a lot of training...

Amalia Di Mascolo - Italy

molinaro_lia — 2016-07-03 06:55:46 UTC

I often use peer assessments, especially for oral checks. Infact, I make my students known what are the requirements that a good performance must have and what are the minimum requirements for a simple sufficiency. In this way, my students share the grade and suggest to me the correct grade.

Most of time they are right and fair and sometimes they are much more severe than me …

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Elena Sanesi

elesanesi — 2016-07-03 08:52:55 UTC

Peer assessament for me is the basis of collaborative work . It 's a important feedback that each student receives during the activity by its working group . I often use the peer to peer even in the final presentation of the product . We observe , we discuss the results of the work , we check that the product is suitable for the required task.

Ana Cristina Carmo, Portugal

2016-07-03 08:59:01 UTC

In recent months I have only used peer assessment in the classroom once and as a trial and error attempt, I now realise the method used needs perfecting. How did I use it? Students were developping a research project on the theme Environment, when time came to present the projects orally ( in the ESL classroom) I asked peers to verbally evaluate content and oral presentation in a constructive way. The result was quite good, as students presenting were eveluated by their peers who highlighted the good points and called attention to weeknesses, doing so long before I introduced the 'ladder of feedback' technique. This method motivated weeker students, as their effort was recognised by peers who know (sometimes better than teachers) who really struggled to get to the end, but made it and let those students know how to get to the next step successfully.
I now realise this should have been done during the project construction phase so that suggestions could have been incorporated so end products could have been that much better. However this experience has really showed me how formative peer evaluation can be important in the construction of PBL, and I now plan to use it more frequently to help students grow together and learn from each other.

IvanaNenadic

nenadic_ivana007 — 2016-07-03 09:19:51 UTC

I only used peer assessment in the ESA courses :) But I plan to implement it to my classroom from next year. My concern is the fact that I need to provide a numeric grade to write into students book and how to connect the two? Gives me a lot to think about

Anestis, Greece

anis_ex — 2016-07-03 09:42:19 UTC

I agree with Barbara that we do not have the culture of peer or formative assessment. It is also known that we teach the way we've been taught. So there's a lot to be done, starting from primary schools, in a way that pupils get used to this kind of work. Then when we propose it, they can accept it as something natural, not as an innovation.

Clara Elizabeth Báez - Italy

2016-07-03 10:31:48 UTC

Is along time that I teach and I find very useful peer assessments. I use it everytime when we make monthly test. So every student can understand better between them and reflect what they have done, after they ask to me more explanation. They feel calm and reassured they deepened together, mantain the contents better, improve their collaboration and build new knowledge. Take a look , there is a manual of Peeragogy:

Morena, Italy

teachergandini — 2016-07-03 10:39:41 UTC

I have never used peer assessment with my ss, but after using on my learning in this course I think it is very useful because you can improve your work with peers' suggestions and I was helped and supported in those parts that were not very clear or complete. It is also helpful to have a rubric and a model to follow that you can personalize. Thank you to my reviewers.

rocco macr

2016-07-03 10:42:07 UTC

The student who has an awareness of how he or she learns is better able to set goals, develop a variety of learning strategies, and control and evaluate his or her own learning process.

As evidence of this, PISA 2000 found that: Schools may need to give more explicit attention to allowing students to manage and control their learning in order to help them all to develop effective strategies, not only to support their learning at school but also to help them with the tools to manage their learning later in life”. (OECD, 2001, p. 110)

I always try to introduce peer assessment but it is an hard work...students do not have the culture of peer or formative assessment as a lot of collegues so it is not a trasversal practice and students don't take it seriously

Luisa, Italy

3B_giulio — 2016-07-03 10:55:56 UTC

I think Peer Assessment is very useful not just between students but also between teachers. I am glad to know that peer to peer activities are scheduled for newly recruited teachers. Anyway I have to say that it is not common in classroom. I guess it is because of lack of time and, of course, it takes time to make teachers aware about the potential of this strategy. It's up to us...let's begin new best practices and share them!

Lea Štiberc, Slovenia,

lea_stiberc — 2016-07-03 11:22:36 UTC

I find peer assessment is a very useful and effective way of assessment. It’s have to be planed exactly, with clear criteria, clear goals. It is a useful way to rethink the content, the way of self-evaluation, to focus on content and to learn how to provide feedback. We have to learn a lot about this topic, work on preparing methods, criteria, rubrics …

Maria Papadaki, Greece

maria_agglika — 2016-07-03 13:54:41 UTC

I haven't used peer assessment so far in my classes. I think what I needed was more insight into it and now that I've got some I believe I'll start using it.

Vicenta Revert, Spain

VicentaRevert — 2016-07-03 14:16:08 UTC

Courses like this one make me aware that what I have been doing with my students was just a taste of peer assessment. Reading from the others, their diary practice and from the materials of the course is giving me more possibilities to go forwards with the learning process. So, the next course, I will implement what I am now learning.

Mariella Brunazzi, Italy

2016-07-03 16:02:27 UTC

My colleagues and I (we are secondary school teachers) use peer assessment in CLIL modules and what I can say is that it works but to make it more effective it should be started from primary school which is not often the case in Italy. If students get accustomed to it when they are younger, everything is easier and it helps to make them more responsible

Rosanna, Italy

rosanna_galbiat — 2016-07-03 16:37:47 UTC

I sometimes used self assessments and peer assessments during my lessons (e.g. when students exchange exercises and correct each other’s) and I could verify that this is very useful for the students, because it leads them both to consider their work and their skills, and to judge honestly their peers work.

The peer assessment used during this course was very helpful to understand the PBL methodology. To give and receive assessments led to the development of a constructive and collaborative way of thinking.

Thersa from Italy. During my classes I always leave time to the comparison of tasks and exercises among pupils. I think it is important that pupils are compared on an exercise carried out or on a text they have written. They corrected the errors and discuss when they have done a work in a different way. Through self-correction, students realize their level of learning and become responsible for their improvements.

thersaiovine — 2016-07-03 17:07:20 UTC

Maria Grazia, Italy

2016-07-03 17:11:16 UTC

In my opinion, peer assessment is a very powerful way to let students take greater responsibility for their learning, Adult learners feel engaged and motivated, in so far as they gain the opportunity to better understand their mistakes, to learn from them and provide feedback. I have been using peer assessment just formatively, but now I want to try it in the summative assessment. As for the peer reviews received during this course, I found them kind and above all useful to improve my work.

Krystyna, UK

krysiapasek — 2016-07-03 17:45:32 UTC

I like the peer-assessment and my students like it too. To have a look at the peer assessment that I use the most please follow the link below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RmVPPtbgQc8N4252mU2EM-04FAbRHVg9tVDN0kdO-qY/edit

Célita, Portugal

2016-07-03 18:24:13 UTC

At school I only use it with students, I usually do peer assessment among students a lot, they enjoy it very much, they like being on “teachers” place and the peer doesn’t see it as a formal evaluation, it’s easier for them this kind of assessment in everyday activities. Among teachers we usually do it when we have to work together.

Nikoletta

papnikole — 2016-07-03 19:16:21 UTC

I haven't used yet peer assessment into my class but I think it's really useful for both students and teachers. It's a way to take feedback and correct or improve our mistakes.

Naděžda

2016-07-03 19:41:12 UTC

I use Peer assessment in my class when I want my students to se the impact of their work or performance on others. IT helps me to make them Under Stand that their work is meat for others not for itself.

Orla, Ire

shmurla_orla — 2016-07-03 20:28:37 UTC

I sometimes get students to swap copies and correct each others work. Students that collaborate and talk about their work-where they went wrong and how they can improve.

Eliana68, Italy

eliansum — 2016-07-03 21:49:50 UTC

The peer review of this course was very interesting and precise. I never felt judged but encouraged to do better and to reach the goal more clearly. I think the peer review is important in any work activity, because experiencing the same emotions, the same interests, and sharing the same language, the correction between colleagues is accepted with more openness. It is possible to improve ourselves by asking more advice without fear of judgment. And the same thing happens at school: children are more prone to accept the advice from their peers who use their own words, than from the teacher.

Maria Georgiadou,Greece

mariageorgiado2 — 2016-07-03 22:11:22 UTC

As a teacher of french, I put some easy activities to my students, such as vocabulary matching activities, dictation etc. They are very happy when they are told to make their classmate review.The enjoy the fact that they feel like being teachers. This is a very important work for both, because they cal learn reviewing or being reviewed.

Antonietta Amore, Italy

aamore — 2016-07-04 00:09:06 UTC

Peer assessment is just a way to provide feedback in order to do better; it can be a powerful tool to deepen students' understanding of their learning process: not only they can better understand their peers' mistakes, but also they may accept more easily a comment from a peer, a classmate rather than a teacher.

This PBL course gave me the great opportunity of participating in peer assessment activities: exchanging feedback on other collegues’ works helped me to enrich my reflections about my own work.

Recep Batur-Turkey

recepbatur — 2016-07-04 02:18:06 UTC

I find peer review is very useful for a teacher.Because when we enter into the class nobody can see what we do and how we focus on the topic to teach.That's why when there is a peer review for our assessment it will give us confidence.

Barbara Horvatic, Croatia

2016-07-04 05:36:29 UTC

This is an example of an easy way how can you use peer assessment even with the younger students:

Traffic lights
Students green-light (using a green highlighter on the margin of the work) the work of their peer to indicate where the success criteria have been achieved, or amber-light where improvement is needed.

This strategy is best used on a work-in-progress, although it could also be used, with coloured sticky notes, to provide feedback on a final piece of work. The suggestions for improvement would then relate to the next occasion on which the students undertook work which required similar skills - writing or number skills, for example.
This strategy is also good for self-assessment, but for older students:-)

Solveiga, Lithuania

solveiga — 2016-07-04 05:52:16 UTC

Peers assessments unconsciously I have used this year more than before. At beginning it was horrible. Seems that they never do it. Kids laugh from small mistakes, don't need to say when really funny misstep was noted. Was very strict. After some time they have understood what they should do. But still I am not happy about result we achieved. Maybe it's because I see them once a week. we will see next year.

Falanga Caterina, Italy

2016-07-04 05:55:49 UTC

I tried this year to use the peer assessment by providing the class made the rubric for individual activities. The evaluation has become truly formative.

Angela Bertolini-Italy

angela_bertolini — 2016-07-04 06:10:38 UTC

I have tried peer assessment in my classes a couple of times, because a colleague had suggested to try it, having attended a PBL course and having a variety of rubrics which might fit my purpose. I found it really useful. Knowing they would be assessed throughout the learning/working process, my students paid more attention to what they were doing and they collaborated more effectively.
I feared their assessment might be a bit rude, on the contrary, without knowing anytihng about the ladder of assessment they provided very supportive, though well thought, analysis of their peers' work

Stella

2016-07-04 06:31:18 UTC

I have tried peer assessment but sometimes the kids are harsh and they try to make fun with each other. When we try written rubrics it is better...›

Cecilia D., Italy

2016-07-04 06:38:28 UTC

I sometimes use peer review in Italian, when students swap their essays: they love to take the place of the teacher and by assessing others they improve also their own productions; another involving peer assessment is about their ppt presentation, using the rubric they have created. In my experience as a learner, I found very useful peer review in this course and also in other MOOCs and for my papers and articles.

Xenia Xistouri, Cyprus

xistouri — 2016-07-04 06:47:31 UTC

I often use peer-assessment with pupils, often without rubrics and sometimes with. I believe that it is good for both sides, because it helps the evaluator to frame their thinking and to gain some ideas they might had not had at the time. The peer that is evaluated gains on feedback that is straight forward and in the words of someone that is at the same level, so it might be easier to comprehend and emotionally accept.

Frédérique, TURKEY

2016-07-04 06:48:04 UTC

I try to get the students to swap their essays and review each other's work...

Alessia (Italy)

alessia_lalomia — 2016-07-04 07:04:56 UTC

I never implement peer assessment during my profession but I think that it is a good way to make to feel responsible young students. They could assign marks or smiles by means of a rubric or a map. As a special needs teacher I imagine it is possible support the assessment of the student with disability by a tutor/classmate who gives gadget and uses stamps to motivate his learning.

remedios

mvalalb — 2016-07-04 08:54:05 UTC

Peer assessment can be very powerful, with teenagers we must carefully control it so taha the evaluation is constructive and provides positive feedback. I have use it sometimes and I have had problems with the attitudes of some teenagers that din't take it serously or just used it to punish other partners. We must explain the process to them very seriously and establish the criteria in a rubric that it is positive

Ivana, Italy

Ivana91 — 2016-07-04 09:11:32 UTC

At school I never worked for projects and/or in collaboration with others people, and so I never experienced the peer evaluation process. By means what I saw in the videos offered and activity of this same course on PBL I believe that peer review is very formative because each student improves in his work thanks to advice of other students that doing the same activities and that requires be helped to improve continuously at the same time.

Ivana, Italy

Ivana91 — 2016-07-04 09:12:11 UTC

Angela Metallinou/Athens, Greece

2016-07-04 09:42:57 UTC

I have to admit, that I am not using quite often any kind of assessments exept from tests and evaluations. Somehow I don't know what to ask in these assessments... but as I can see it is something that improves not only the students work, but mine as well... What I have to learn my students is to make peer reviews after the Ladder of feedback... and while we are collaborating on this, I will get the feedback needed...

Panagiota Papaioannou, Greece

2016-07-04 09:47:50 UTC

It's a fact that most of the times I use tests in the end of each unit as an assessement. Not only is that a n assessement that doesn't help students, but also it doesn't ameliorate their critical thinking skills. It's time for change.

Eleni

lab4tee — 2016-07-04 09:54:20 UTC

I think peer review is perfect as long as we have a positive attitude all growing on by our trainees. Sometimes when a trainee has an idea and we are brainstorming on that idea I think we somehow are doing a peer review.

Alessandro, Italy

2016-07-04 09:56:37 UTC

I came from years of scientific research in which peer assessment and peer reviewing is an essential part of of the job. Working at University, I used to assist students during their experimental thesis an I often practiced peer assessment activities. What impressed me the most of the Italian students during these years was the lack of effective tools acquired from previous steps of their career...compared to their collegues coming from abroad. This was always matter of lack of self-confidence during discussion and often resulted in a lack of attitude for sharing ideas, developing independence and ownership over their tasks and actively participate to this kind of activities. Get used to this approach at 24 should definitively be harder....

Susana in Faro, PT

2016-07-04 10:14:15 UTC

I was going to write exactly the same as Catarina Pinheiro, Portugal. That's it.

Daniela C, Italy

invernizzifam — 2016-07-04 10:15:46 UTC

In the last months I attended two fantastic Moocs, learning a lot from the assessments made to me by my peers, and to the ones I did to the classmates, so...why this couldn't work as well for my pupils? What I really like about peer evaluation is the power that it gives to my students as learners, and I'm always surprise about how they are able to improve their mates' work with so kind and effective suggestions.

Stefania Nonino, Italy

user_noninost — 2016-07-04 10:39:10 UTC

I have experienced P2P assessment as a learner in this MOOC and in previous online courses I have attended. It is a really effective tool; I started implementing it within some pbl projects; I have noticed that by the end of the project presentations, students had taken advantage of the discussion on strong and weak parts of their peers' works. Providing students with some scaffolding and getting them used to it will certainly make this method even more powerful.

Melissa,k Italy

melissa_scommegna — 2016-07-04 12:46:03 UTC

Experiencing P2P assesment in this MOOC gave me the opportunity to better understand the kind of work that we needed to do. During the assesment I had new ideas about what, in my work, could be better done. So, the assesment was really usefull for me to learn, more than doing the work

Michela Pinna, Italy

changeling — 2016-07-04 12:56:10 UTC

I sometimes used peer assessment in a non structured way (no idea until now about the wonderful "Ladder of feedback", even though I wonder how I was pretty close to it during peer assessment activities) and what I remember best is how confortable and confident the children were, no matter what their role was in assessment. They don't feel judged by a mate and they rely on them more than on the teacher, just because they are peers! It's definitively an issue I want to deepen.

Lucia Migliarini, Italy

miluci — 2016-07-04 12:57:47 UTC

I’ve never used peer assessment in my classrooms (with students 16-19 years old) before because I didn’t know it but I’ll try to use it in the future! :-)
I’m very happy to be here (in this course on PBL) because I’ve learned and I’m still learning a lot and I totally agree with Alessandro (that have worked in Italian University) that write here in this padlet that Italian students have more problems “compared to their collegues coming from abroad”: he points up “a lack of self-confidence during discussion and often …. a lack of attitude for sharing ideas, developing independence and ownership over their tasks and actively participate to this kind of activities. Get used to this approach at 24 should definitively be harder....”.

So we have to do something to change our students approach, beginning to the primary school!

Lina Pereira, Portugal

2016-07-04 12:58:01 UTC

I've tried to use peer assessment in oral and group work presentations and the students like it; they like to assume the teachers role and some of their assessments have surprised me very positively; I think peer assessment is very stimulating, gives power to students as learners and they feel they should try their best in what they do. But sometimes other students also see this as a funny moment, they don't take this seriously or try to benefit their friends even if their work doesn't deserve it.
To make peer assessment effective, it's important to determine the goals and appropriate criteria to achieve this.
I find the Ladder of feedback very ineresting and useful and I'm definitely going to use it! This PBL course is really useful for us as it shows us new tools and strategies that help us to feel more confident in our new teaching approaches.

Georgia Alexouda

alexouda — 2016-07-04 13:15:52 UTC

I use very often the PBL approach and the peer assessment in my junior high school. In my opinion, peer assessment helps students to develop critical thinking. They often make interesting suggestions and also they are more careful with their own work. Moreover, it is important to involve them in the design of the rubric.

Songül KURT/Turkey

songulkurt_80 — 2016-07-04 13:18:44 UTC

In this MOOC, I really like being a part of peer assessment,So for teachers and students it is encouraging.Peer Assessment contributes to many things such as, critical thinking, making your own decisions, giving a voice, being respectful to others' efforts and tring to help them to improve their work. So this kind of assessment helps the students who are at the same age to feel relaxed and comfortable, also more self-confident , to get their own learning responsibility. I like the ladder of feedback, I will use it!

Evangelia Evmorfopoulou, Greece

2016-07-04 13:21:30 UTC

I often use peer assessment or group assessment technique while my students are working on a task. The peer assessment that I was implementing usually focused on what each student suggests to other students in order to make their work more comprehensive and integrated. Unfortunately, I have never used such a structured peer assessment like the ladder feedback proposed by this pbl course, but I would like to because this process can make students more responsible for their work, useful and helpful for the other students.

cristina, italy

cristina_casanova — 2016-07-04 16:36:19 UTC

all your methods are really very interesting and useful, thanks for sharing

Marisa C.,Italy

carcollamaria — 2016-07-04 16:40:26 UTC

I totally agree that peer assessment is a powerful and highly effective tool. Students are excellent judges of good or bad work and have all the means to be able to offer suggestions and help. I have regularly used peer assessment and although students are reluctant at first, they then understand how useful it is for them and for the peers they are assessing.

Fiorenza, Italy

fiorenza_congedo — 2016-07-04 16:45:57 UTC

I always encourage my students in taking part in tasks where self assessment/peer assessment plays a key role in their final results.

Sabrina Petrillo ITALY

spwillothewisp9 — 2016-07-04 16:59:32 UTC

I think that trying to have a High School senior student (16-18 y.o.) learn how to make up a test (e.g. using an online rubric generating site, such as Rubistar) would be a good way to help her/him to focus on individual needs. Anyway, since the assessment TLA in my Learning Design has 9th grade Ss as addressees, they need a “guardian angel” to scaffold them when putting together the jigsaw rubric intended for formatively assessing learners’ progress through PBL implementation as suggested by one of my peer-reviewers in 2.6 P2P section. As I usually work in a team, my students have already experienced this technique with my STEM colleagues. So all that I will have to do will be dividing the classroom into five groups and explaining that they are going to assess each other’s proficiency, e.g. in the use of present tenses on a rubric while preparing oral presentations. As for specific techniques to embed in a future PBL implementation, in preparing jigsaw rubrics I’ll try to replace some of the information with numbered gaps, subsequently making cards of the information from the gaps and giving each card a letter to identify it. If my classroom collaborate with senior schoolmates, as it often happens in the lab, more skilled Ss will be proposed to complete the gaps in their own words, i.e. suggesting simpler descriptors. After completing the rubric making, the following task will be to give each group one category to score using it. Then each team will have to use the above rubrics while their peers are holding presentations. At the end of the activity the class scores will be taken into account both for formative and summative assessment. Consequently, next year, before school starts, we teachers will have to meet in our departments in order to plan PBL approach oriented assessment grids and rubrics as well as the approximately programmed dates for tests to be given. Since the school year is traditionally divided into three terms, a sort of feedback loop will be required at the end of each term so that we teachers can adjust learning objectives in itinere and let Ss and parents know early what we learned from the assessments and which learners need further scaffolding. Moreover, during the periodical school-family meetings teenagers may be asked questions such as "How can you motivate yourself in your first Upper Secondary School year towards your professional life?.

ALBERTO GARNIGA - Trentino (Italy)

2016-07-04 17:13:09 UTC

Here the link to my website with some of the resources I used for evaluation, including peer-assessment: https://pbl-cmc.wikispaces.com/valutare+nel+PBL

angela fenu Italy

2016-07-04 17:20:37 UTC

I use peer assessment every now and then but I wasn't aware of the benefits the students can get when used systematically. It's a great idea and a very powerful approach.!!

Clarisse Pinão, Portugal

clarissepinao — 2016-07-04 18:29:42 UTC

I think that this course has been very useful when it comes to peer assessment, as I was able to learn from the learning designs I reviewed and from the reviews I got on my own. I believe this is a very positive method of evaluation and it really makes students value their thoughts and opinions as well as their peers'.

Skaistė Valutienė, Lithuania

2016-07-04 18:29:50 UTC

I must admit that I do not always use peer assessment, but I do it as much as I can.

Luca Battistelli

luca_battistelli — 2016-07-04 18:51:52 UTC

I never used peer assessment.

Jurate, Lithuania

jurateorloviene — 2016-07-04 18:56:08 UTC

I was impressed by both videos particularly about usefulness of the peer assessment to the student which assessed his partner. Usually I tried to encourage my students however I found out the peer assessment much more useful

Maja Hadzic, Serbia

2016-07-04 19:33:04 UTC

I sometimes use peer assessment, but not for real grades, but for practice. Students do an exercise in their notebooks or workbooks, I collect them and give them out randomly. We all do check up and they have to read their peers answers and correct them. Students are very strict assessors :) They like this activity very much, but I have noticed that that they are not very punctual.

Alina Kalopana, Greece

alkalopana — 2016-07-04 19:54:17 UTC

I have rarely used peer assessment in the past, and mainly through group-working, that requires a critical eye on the work of the others. Officially, it is now time to go with it!

Aiki, Estonia

aiki — 2016-07-04 20:01:03 UTC

I think I don't do peer assessment as often as necessary because it takes time and it hasn't become a habit. I will certainly try to use it more next school year because I am convinced it's useful.

Cristina Casanova, Italy

cristina_casanova — 2016-07-04 20:25:23 UTC

Peer assessment is a great option but ( following my experience) only for group working

Federica (Italy)

2016-07-04 20:28:10 UTC

I have not used peer assessments in any of my classes and I just can't wait to try it out. When I had to give feedbacks during this course, I really tried to give constructive advice and appreciations! And I also liked receiving peer reviews!!!

Miriam Bergin, Ireland

mbergin — 2016-07-04 20:37:40 UTC

I teach business studies and ICT, because of time constraints have done very little peer assessment but think I could work on this more. I found sometimes the students do not want to be critical of their peers.

Argiro Zikouli, Greece

azikouli — 2016-07-04 21:43:57 UTC

I 've never heard about peer assessment before. I once asked my students to grade each other's presentation after commenting on that, but now I realize it's not how formative assessment really works. I just realized I somehow used the Ladder of Feedback in many of my peer reviews, and I'm glad I did it. So, to me, it's comes really natural to clarify, comment on the parts you liked, voice your concerns about other parts and then offer suggestions. This is what I love in this course! Thanks again!

Daniela Ambrosi, Italy

dagato — 2016-07-04 22:12:16 UTC

When I run the setting and create groups, within each individual three or four functions. These correspond to competences of citizenship: Coordinator, technician, Archivist, Secretary.
This allows every moment of play a role and promotes job team

Natália Neves, Portugal

natamaro_alneves — 2016-07-04 22:30:59 UTC

I've never heard of the Ladder of Feedback and I'm looking forward for next school year to start to use it.
After watching the videos about peer assessment, I'm not sure if what I've already tried in my classes is really peer assessment. I sometimes ask kids to exchange their homework and correct each other. (They are usually more demanding than I am.) It also works when students have to practise reading or a dialogue they are about to role play. They help each other with pronunciation and intonation.

Leonor Negrão, Portugal

leonornegrao2 — 2016-07-04 23:44:01 UTC

This course has given me the opportunity to have peers and to be a peer in peer asssessment. I think this was very, very useful because I took a role I've never had. It made me to think and to learn much. When I was peering my colleagues' work I was really working on and for the learning design .I was giving my opinion, giving my suggestions but I was also thinking how important that tool was and how the suggestions i was giving could help me as well.
As far as my students are concerned I think last year I 've already used a kind of peer assessment when my pupils made oral presentations of the books they've read to the class. All of them had a rubric where they had the criteria for the oral presentation and they were asked to say first of all the good things of the work, then what they would change and finally their suggestions. It was something they loved to do! They were really engaged !
I think the laddder of feedback and the rubrics are a fundamental support for formaitve and peer assessment.

Riham El-Ashry, Egypt

rihamelashry20132 — 2016-07-05 02:28:59 UTC

I think peer review has been a very useful tool to improve my assignments.

Anna La Montagna, Italy

2016-07-05 02:30:13 UTC

I am learning a lot in this course on the PBL method, and in particular in this form on the peer review process . In my experience during the laboratory sessions I ask students to describe everything they have done and observe a series of soft skills such as participation in group communication of their own work , the ability to understand the mistakes if the experiment is not succeeded.

Elisabetta Margaria, Italy

elisabettamargaria — 2016-07-05 03:28:17 UTC

Before watching these two videos, I had "few and confused" ideas about peer assessment, especially about how I could use it with my students. Ladder of feedback seems a great and useful instrument and I believe it will help me give a scaffold to my students, introducing them correctly to peer assessment

Marco Pianotti, Ital

2016-07-05 04:50:59 UTC

I completely agree with these two videos, with the statements and reflections on the importance of peer assessment into an effective and meaningful learning process. But I work with students with special needs and I must say that, often, peer assessment put them in a difficult position: these kids frequently feel themselves different (in a negative way, unfortunately) from their classmates, and they fear their opinion (they don't want to be judged...).

Agita Ozoliņa, Latvia

2016-07-05 05:10:45 UTC

I have done the peer assessment in my class with my students. Last year I started to do it because I attended a course on use of ICT at the lessons. There was the first time I heard about it and started to use. Thanks to this course I have understood it better. Now I'm going to use it more and more.

Astrid Hulsebosch

AstridVE — 2016-07-05 05:15:37 UTC

Since I followed the ESNA Courses, the pratice of peer assesment in my classroom increased. I noticed that my students are very critical ab severe. Together we can learn to see things in different ways. I'm convinced peer assessment stimolates critical thinking and involve the students more in their learning process. It's very important to stimolate them in good comunication skills, in being respectful, attentive and how to motivate each other writing or giving an oral a peerview.

Thomas Michels, Germany

thomasmichels — 2016-07-05 06:57:23 UTC

I didn´t use peer assessments up to now, but i think i will try a open diary of every students, where other students can give useful hints to problems or some feedback to the entries

Johanna Chardaloupa, Greece

johanna_gr1 — 2016-07-05 07:34:10 UTC

I love to incorporate small projects in my everyday lessons. So, group assessment is a MUST, while every group presents his outcome. Because of the strict timetable and the stuff I have to cover through out the school year, I don't apply peer assessment as much as I would like to. I usually use P2P assessment on european or cultural projects. And I am definitely going to use the Ladder of Feedback from now on!

Agnese, Italy

agnese_pianigia — 2016-07-05 07:44:39 UTC

I have never used peer-assesment in my classes, but next year I will definitely try it!

Rosa Macieira, Portugal

2016-07-05 08:54:46 UTC

I never used peer assessment in the way that it is presented here, because I didn't know that it would be so helpful. I usually do it, but the students don't have the opportunity to rewrite, re-do their work.
In this course, with our peer review activities, I've realized that it is crucial to our development as it gives you a new perspective on your work

Evangelia Karagiannidou/ Greece

ekaragia — 2016-07-05 09:35:34 UTC

Peer Assessment is a must in my teaching context, as it promotes critical thinking skills and endorses a reflective teaching approach (something that students have come to appreciate)! Also, the Ladder of Feedback is one of my favourites!

Jovita Michniovienė: Lithuania

jovita_michnioviene — 2016-07-05 10:25:46 UTC

I never use peer assessment because, from my experience, students never give constructive assessment. One group of them is always too harsh and others too gentle. There is also those, who do not care, and evaluation become useless. Usually, students can not explain clearly why they evaluate friends work like that.

Regina

regina_duarte — 2016-07-05 10:51:39 UTC

To model feedback is a good way of making sure students will know how to give feedback when it's their turn.
I always give people feedback in a 3 steps movement: what's working; what needs to be revised; how can we improve it. Now I'll be adding the questions of clarification first.

Federica, italy

federica_armani — 2016-07-05 12:14:42 UTC

I have never used peer-assesment in my classes, but next year I will definitely try it! I think it's very interesting and it could be a powerful tool for children.

Donata Italy

dmschiliro — 2016-07-05 12:53:29 UTC

At school sometimes we uttilizziamo a student which acts as a tutor. he helps his companion (usually the one with the most difficulty) and reflects with him on how the work must be done. But the peer assesment is something more, different. It is a mutual exchange of opinions and peer reviews. I think I want to know more about so that you can apply next year in school.

Angela Pluda, Italy

2016-07-05 12:59:55 UTC

Using peer assessment in my classes I discovered students (children!) were very accurate and meticulous in their evaluations and suggestions! Here in this course I've noticed that it's difficult to give correct and useful feedback to my colleagues, because they are good teachers, produce great works and it's difficult to find some weak points or something to suggest to make their work better!

Katerina Toubeki, Greece

toubaik — 2016-07-05 13:12:32 UTC

I’ve often used peer assessment for students, and I have seen very important effects on their self improvement. It definitely works better that self-assessment.

I’ve also contributed to peer assessment in an online course organized by our school advisor. It’s the first time, however, I have enjoyed peer assessment in this course so much, since it involves peers from other countries and it gave me the chance to see other colleagues ideas. The ladder of feedback is great and I’m going to make it a central process in my class feedback.

Carme Masdevall (Spain)

2016-07-05 13:14:59 UTC

I must say I have learned more (or at least as much) doing the peer assessments than doing my own Learning Design. And this is because I felt under pressure and observed. I wanted to cause a good impression so I went to a lot of effort.

Now, I will present you with a great peer assessment activity. I apologise because I already shared it in Dotstorm in the previous activity as an example of formative assessment. This time it is shared to you as a great example of peer assessment:

You put two students of the same level to work together on a piece of writing. It is interesting to see how much feedback and correction they give each other. This can be considered "formative assessment". The teacher moves around and checks or listens to the peer's comments and intervenes if necessary.

Sara Italy

saraonga — 2016-07-05 14:20:39 UTC

I have rarely used peer assessment in my classes but through these videos I have had intersting suggestions on how to apply it in the future.

Peer assssment is quite positive since students are responsible for their perfomance. They undergo roles and make them feel part of the teaching- learning process.

2016-07-05 14:23:19 UTC

Francesca C., Italy

frccpz66 — 2016-07-05 14:30:06 UTC

In my teaching experience I've never used peer assessment in a formal way or in the way it's happening in this course, but I think that it can be really motivating for the students who are assessed and those who assess. Moreover students become more aware of the process of learning when they are asked to explain it to others. I often ask some of my students to prepare games for their mates using tools such as Kahoot or Quizlet and it is particularly interesting to see how much effort they put into it as "makers" and "players": it always goes down to a challenge for both parts and both are winners at the end.

Giuseppe V., Italy

2016-07-05 14:39:49 UTC

Peer assessment is just a way to be a powerful tool to deepen students' understanding of their learning process: children can better understand their peers' mistakes and they accept more easily a comment from a peer, a classmate rather than a teacher.

This PBL course gave me the great opportunity of participating in peer assessment activities: exchanging feedback on other collegues’ works helped me to enrich my reflections about my own work.

Lucia Elena

2016-07-05 14:40:30 UTC

I always use peer assessment with my children and I think It is the best way to compare your work with colleagues. It's a way to take feedback and correct or improve our mistakes in order to improve your way of teaching.

Stefania Alessio, Italy

stefaniaalessio89 — 2016-07-05 15:08:07 UTC

Peer Assessment is an important way to help students to reach a better learning, they become more responsible and they understands their Strengths & Weaknesses !

Manuel Garcia Naples Italy

2016-07-05 15:44:59 UTC

The peer assessment process that I encountered throughout the PBL course has been quite informative and beneficial to the way that I improve and modify my learning design as well as to my overall understanding of the course. Over the course of the peer review sessions, I have learned how to present information to my fellow colleagues in order to let them know what I think they did right and praised some of the points that I liked in their work, as well as learning how to raise some concerns or criticisms about their projects that I felt was unclear or could be improved in a constructive manner that was both respectful and useful in shaping how the viewed their own learning designs.

Elena Balestrieri, Italy

elena_balestrieri — 2016-07-05 15:48:17 UTC

Peer assessment is a really powerful tool in itself to implement learning having students take ownership of their learning process. The ladder of feedback is a very interesting way of organizing this activity. I will try to include it in my PBL.

Sara, Italy

saraderogatis — 2016-07-05 15:59:00 UTC

Group work can be more successful when students are involved in developing the assessment process. The main aims of self and peer assessment are to: increase student responsibility and autonomy; lift the role and status of the student from passive learner to active leaner and assessor; involve students in critical reflection; develop in students a better understanding of their own subjectivity and judgement. Peer assessment encourages student involvement and responsibility; focuses on the development of student’s judgment skills. Above all students are involved in the process and are encouraged to take part ownership of this process.

Gina Naples Italy

2016-07-05 15:59:12 UTC

Peer assessment is judging other’s work, but at the same time it helps improve your own work. It helps to identify what to look for in ones own work, as well as being able to discuss ideas and share information with others in a constructive and informative manner. The following links provides some useful ways to discuss how and why the peer assessment process can help those who choose to adopt it:

http://www.slideshare.net/Olgavila/peer-assessment-template

http://www.slideshare.net/mikegershon/peer-and-self-assessment-guide

http://www.slideshare.net/dominicpenney/peer-and-self-assessment-in-the-classroom.

Sónia Rodrigues, Porto (Portugal)

svrodrigues — 2016-07-05 16:16:39 UTC

Peer assessment allows us to reflect on our own work and on the work of a colleague through the criteria given to us from the teacher. It allows also to a more deep discussion between peers about the work under assessment. It is a very significant way to improve.

Mariangela Larini, Italy

2016-07-05 16:28:28 UTC

I have used peer assessment in my classes for some years, but these videos have given me really interesting suggestions about how to improve my action in the future. I have appreciated the LADDER OF FEEDBACK, I’ve just stamped a picture and put it on the wall of my classroom, I think it’ll be a nice surprise for my students in September

Alexandra Ballou, Greece

alexballou12 — 2016-07-05 18:39:30 UTC

Peer assessment is a method of assessment which provides students with the appropriate criteria so as to become more involved in the process of learning. Moreover, students by sharing their concerns and making suggestions to other students is at the same time a self - assessment. What really impressed me with peer assessment is that we are referred to an easy type of assessment since it is not about yourself but unconsciously it is.

sminamin — 2016-07-05 19:41:35 UTC

Silvia Gualdi

silvia_gualdi — 2016-07-05 20:06:58 UTC

Until now in my teaching I don’t use peer assessment, but after this course I’m going to use it because I realized the power of this technique.

Review the tasks of my colleagues, as I have done in this course, was a very challenging and involving activity, which led me to a deeper knowledge of the PBL, particularly how to create Learning Design.

And get a review was always exciting, and I thank the colleagues who kindly review my works

Gülşen Korucu,Turkey

gulsenkorucu — 2016-07-05 20:11:25 UTC

Peer assessment is very beneficial and essential aspect of PBL.In view of teachers ,It leads us to collaborate with our colleagues effectively.In the view os students, it leads them to improve assessment skills and feel ownership of project. we surely should activate peer assessment in our project process .So it facilitates our work and helps us have a better results after project.

Daniela Millini

sep31to75oct — 2016-07-05 20:29:28 UTC

The first thing my students realize when they are asked to do do some peer assessment for the first time is that assessing is not that easy :) This is especially true when they are not simply asked to look for 'mistakes' but to give a positive, constructive assessment of their peers' work or performance. They use to think of teachers as absolute "judges" and it is very difficult for them to see assessment as a way to learn. Being in the teacher's shoes ( because this is how they feel at the beginning) help them understand that assessment is not only about grading. It also help them accept a different opinions on their work, advice, suggestions - and learn how to give them to their peers.

Sérgio Leal, Portugal

sergioleal — 2016-07-05 21:32:33 UTC

Task 4.3 - Peer Assessment for PBL
When students in groups have realized projects they peer assess the work of colleagues. They have the possibility to talk about what they think of every Project in the class.

Chiara Leoni, Italy I think peer assessment is a good idea also because pupils will be commetted not only to produce a good work for the teacher to assess, but also a work which can be appealing to a person their age. I think their committment to their goal will double in a way.

2016-07-05 22:20:02 UTC

Recep Batur, Turkey

recepbatur — 2016-07-05 22:35:54 UTC

Group works are important to develop students' confidences and social skills.When they work in group or in pair they realise one another's faults and tend to correct their mistakes.Peer assessment helps students to improve their ways of learning.

TeacherAngela Tarulli , Bari - Italy

dott_angela_tarulli — 2016-07-05 22:52:50 UTC

As part of the learning activities and of the realization of projects with students , I always found that they wanted to be active also in the evaluation process on the results achieved and the skills acquired.

According to a didactic and methodological approach applied , based on the productive exchange of ideas and a sharing of points of views also on the assessment of the achievement of planned objectives and competencies acquired by students, the working groups have always experienced techniques self peer to peer through the completion of the work observation grids , done within groups, considering on how the planned objectives have been achieved, on the choice of the ability to work in group strategies, on cooperative learning, focusing on the critical points and the work force carried out by students.

This technique has made possible to the responsible acceptance of a peer-to-peer self-evaluation process among students and consequently the critical acceptance of my assessment of the results achieved during the activities' teaching.

MartinaP

hege999 — 2016-07-06 08:01:47 UTC

I would use peer assessment in two ways: step-by-step assessment among team members evaluating the level of understanding and completion of tasks. Final assessment among teams (teams assessing other teams) on the final project presentation (before the official presentation takes place)

Maria Rosaria Sorrentino, Italy

mr_sorrentino — 2016-07-06 08:18:45 UTC

I’d like to use group work and peer assessment more often for my students but it involves time and movement. This is hard for different reasons:

1. Very small classes with too many students

2. SS aren’t familiar to group work

3. lack of self-control

4. no open space outside the classroom

5. limited number of teaching-learning hours

6. lack of self-esteem which makes it hard to become independent learners, in fact they tend to lean on those peers that seem to be better skilled and who usually don’t transfer or share what they have learnt with others!

Considering this background… I have to offer lots of positive reinforcement both to weak and strong students and to my colleagues in order to keep them calm when we realise group work and peer assessment through the whole school! �w��

Gordana S

gordana_sutej — 2016-07-06 08:30:18 UTC

In my school magazine editors group I use peer assessment in all stages of work. It is especially useful when students read what they have written to each other and ask each other questions about their work, like: What do you like about the text? What do you find interesting? Are there parts that could be more clear/vivid?

Mário Relvas, Portugal

mariorelvas — 2016-07-06 09:13:58 UTC

Well, I was waiting for the course to end so I can give some feedback, but I believe this module is an excellent opportunity. During all the PBL course the peer feedback lacks the most important feature: moderators had to monitor the process and assure that the feedback was properly provided, and that each course participant was receiving a useful feedback (from the second video you provided us to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqWCJZH8ziQ ).

Eleftheria Andreou, Cyprus

eleftheria_and — 2016-07-06 09:40:08 UTC

In my classroom I mostly use peer assessment when students are asked to do a project or a presentation. They beforehand have the success criteria and what they should include in their project and then their peers are asked to assess their work depending on that criteria. Sometimes feedback is given through speaking activities and sometimes through writing activities.

Anastasios Kollias - Greece

anas_kollias — 2016-07-06 10:22:07 UTC

In my school we work in groups. Most of the activities are team based and we always have peer assessment sessions, whether this relates to inside team work or the work of different teams.
We also use peer assessment when the teachers are working together, either in pairs or small groups holding regular meetings every week.

Mária Bdžochová,Slovakia

maria_bdzochova — 2016-07-06 10:55:08 UTC

I used peer assessment in my classes occasionally. Just to express other classmates’ opinions, but not peer assessments activities like for example the Ladder of Feedback. I will try it in the future! Thank you to my colleagues for peer assessments during this online course.

Gaia. Italy

gaialombardi69 — 2016-07-06 11:19:17 UTC

I do use peer assessment both for projects and group works. In my experience, peer assessment is very useful to give to pupils responsibility of their work and of their learning process.

Jessica Bruini

bruinijessica — 2016-07-06 11:41:43 UTC

Jessica Bruini, Italy

bruinijessica — 2016-07-06 11:41:43 UTC

I think peer assessment is a key part of the assessment project, as it implies that one's work can be improved. I have used peer assessment in class when evaluating presentations made by students about a specific topic I assigned. I have seen that those students with low self esteem, who were particularly doubtful about their work, gained more self confidence because of their peers' assessment and suggestions on how to improve what they had done... they were somehow confirmed that their work was already good and could be even better.

Marta Antunes

2016-07-06 11:51:44 UTC

I will use peer assessment more often after this course. Right now I use it occasionally as Mária said, to have pupils express their opinion on a certain classmate's opinion / performance. I sure learnt with this PBL peer assessment and during my Summer break I'll try to aply some of the resources and behaviours I've seen in here. That was the purspose... to learn and improve! Thank you all for your sharing.

Donka Slavcheva, Bulgaria

dkirovska — 2016-07-06 11:55:44 UTC

The peer assessment is very important for me. So I was getting objective feedback that allowed me are improving their work. Also, I think that peer review will be very useful in the classroom. Challenge and difficulty will be to teach students to be objective. That I tried to enter through cards to assess the multimedia presentations.
But this is just the beginning ...

Simonetta Nofrini, Italy

simopg_si — 2016-07-06 11:58:48 UTC

My students like peer assessment : before an important interview for summative assessment they use to ask classmates to listen to them while reviewing their presentation

Anastasia Panagiotaki, Greece

2016-07-06 13:29:44 UTC

I only use peer assessment when one group gives a presentation and the rest of the class tell what they think.

Artemis. Greece

arty31072 — 2016-07-06 13:57:01 UTC

I usually use peer assessment in projects and presentation but I find it useful and during the everyday learning process when my studnts have, for example, to evaluate their peers homework or an exercise done in classroom

Rita, Italy

blu_rita — 2016-07-06 14:06:31 UTC

I do use peer assessment for group works. I think peer assessment is very useful to empower children about their work and their learning process.
Peer assessment is a powerful tool to implement learning, students are involved in developing the assessment process.The ladder of feedback is a very interesting way of organizing this activity. I will try to include it in my PBL.

Elaine Mac Ginty, Ireland

2016-07-06 14:45:56 UTC

I have used very little peer assessment in my classes until now. Now that I’ve discovered the Ladder of Feedback I can understand how to structure this to make the feedback a valuable learning experience for my students. I’m looking forward to trying this out with my classes.

Maristella, Italy

maristella_tuzz — 2016-07-06 14:53:35 UTC

When we finish a test , each student corrects his companion test (teacher guides students). We do it just finished a test. At the end of correction, each student  writes suggestions to his companion, or explains why the job was done right.

So student:
-immdiately understands why he made a mistake or how he can do better his answer or task
-becomes more responsible
-becomes more independent.

Eleni Argyriou, Greece

elenargy — 2016-07-06 16:08:31 UTC

I have used peer-assessment in my classes and because I do it for many years students have got used to that. Nevertheless, not all teachers use peer assessment. In the learning Design I could integrate it in the process of working (who does what) and in the end product

Stefania Costanzino

steffco77 — 2016-07-06 16:20:25 UTC

Sometime the students write something and we read their work aloud and the peers give them suggestions. I use peer assessment also in group works. However I think I will use more peer assessment in the future.

Teresa, Spain

2016-07-06 16:36:51 UTC

I use peer assessment for projects and sometimes for written tasks. It really helps students improve, both, when they are being assessed and when they give their assessment. Sometimes it is used for formative assessment, at times, it is also used for summative assessment.

Violeta, Lithuania

2016-07-06 17:14:09 UTC

I give peer assessment only in projects . students like it and what surprises me most is that they
know very well how to assess. Their marks are adequate and similar to mine.

Emilia, Italy

cacciemi — 2016-07-06 17:19:45 UTC

Peer assessment is important because students feel more confident with their mates. they can help each other and understand their weakness or strenghts,
as they can improve together their task.

Jose Teixeira, Portugal

joatx74 — 2016-07-06 18:12:20 UTC

Peer assessment helps each other to improve their work. There are benefits for the person who receives feedback, but also has benefits for the person who gives feedback.

I have enjoyed peer assessment in this course very much, since it gave me the chance to share other colleague’s ideas.

I have already uses a kind of peer assessment in my classes for some year, when my students did group work.

Peer assessment allows reflecting on our own work and group work is more successful when students are involved in the assessment process.

In my opinion, the ladder of feedback is a great tool and I’m going to make it a central process in my class feedback.

Sandro

rovels — 2016-07-06 18:19:10 UTC

I use peer assessment for projects . It really helps students improve when they give their assessment. , I use it for summative assessment

Luisella -Italy

luisella_mori — 2016-07-06 19:02:17 UTC

I use peer assessment for group work but I think I will use it more regularly for formative assessment from now on. As I need to improve my students' writing skills, I think that introducing routine peer assessment is going to be really useful. I often use peer-to-peer learning in the periods when we try to strengthen the weaker students's language skills, and it has been really effective.

ROSA MEDEIROS_PT

rosamedeiros — 2016-07-06 19:18:20 UTC

We all know how peer evaluation can be very useful because the students have their own strategies that can share with your colleagues. Students feel more supported and understood. We will have to be careful with the formation of groups and know well the characteristics of each student in order to develop skills to work in groups.

Patrizia Tabacchini Italy

ptabacchini — 2016-07-06 19:22:54 UTC

I use peer assessment for writing task and group work and I think it's very useful to involve students in the learning process and to motivate them in getting better and better. In my experience is very useful to strenghten weaker students: they like to be assessed by classmates and it helps them to get confident and concentrated. For the peer assessment I give students a rubric, just a few criteria, to follow.

Ilias Gerakos GR

ilgerakos — 2016-07-06 19:39:09 UTC

In the embeded assessment I usually prefer (presentation in classroom from each team, where the others play the "role" of :

A the "supporters" ,

B the "scepticals" and

C the "callibrators" students feel encouraged to discuss and exchange their opinions and comments, learn by themeselves, indepentendlly, and engage themselves to become better and improve next presentation

Annabel F. (Barcelona)

aformos2 — 2016-07-06 20:00:02 UTC

I did a reading activity with peer assessment. They had to read the text individually or they could divide the text. Then they had to answer some comprehension questions about the text. Finally they had to share their answers with their peer. They had to discuss whether it was right or wrong,

Emilio Amella. Spain

2016-07-06 21:31:22 UTC

I use peer assessment in all stages of work. when students read what they have written to each other and ask each other questions about their work. It is especially useful

Agnes, Italy

2016-07-07 15:21:08 UTC

I use peer assessment from time to time, because I think that students learn more when they learn something from their peers.

Rossana Maglia, Italy

Rossana55 — 2016-07-07 15:38:57 UTC

I use peer assessment especially when my students use technology for learning. The most skilled helps the weakest. Sometimes my students do peer assessment with me as well. They are often more skilled than me in using technology!

Maria, Italy

francescaferraro22 — 2016-07-07 20:27:31 UTC

I don't really use peer assessment in my teaching, while I do ask for comments and feedback from other peers when a student is being questioned regarding a topic he/she should have studied.

Cristina Parente, Portugal

CrisParente — 2016-07-08 15:23:56 UTC

At the end of each lesson I usually ask my students to think about what they learnt during the lesson and what they need to improve and to write it on their notebooks . In the beginning they had some difficulty in doing it, but as time went by they did it quite well.

My students are also asked about the activities they like best and sometimes they suggest other activities/ ideas for the English lessons, which are amazing.

I also use peer assessment to assess group work, students’ presentations and for writing and reading tasks.

Manana Jakeli, Georgi

mmmjakeli — 2016-07-08 18:06:24 UTC

I use peer assessment from time to time. I think it's very important and useful for students. They learn more when they comunicate peers...

Laura Saltarel, Italy

laura_class — 2016-07-08 20:01:32 UTC

I often use peer assessment with my students because I believe it can encourage their involvement and responsibility. Moreover, it also helps to develop students' judgement skills.

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Silvia Italy

mariasilvia_maltese — 2018-12-05 19:19:52 UTC

I believe that the evaluation of openness is very educational for students
they feel more free to express themselves, to say their own idea, to clarify concepts among themselves.

2019-12-01 21:38:57 UTC

sk.

2019-12-01 21:41:19 UTC

Emilia, Italy Peer assessment is important because students feel more confident with their mates. they can help each other and understand their weakness or strenghts, as they can improve together their task

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2020-08-13 05:28:12 UTC

Thank you to my colleagues

2020-10-03 06:07:12 UTC

It provides explicit opportunities for students to reflect on their presentations, essays and problem sets, and allows them to critically engage with their work, identifying strengths as well as areas for further development.

2020-10-03 06:07:50 UTC

It allows students to engage in critical self-reflection on their own learning, that is an essential aspect of their academic and personal development.