4.3 Peer Assessment for PBL by Teacher Academy

Anita, Croatia

anita_simac — 2017-11-06 15:23:54 UTC

Peer assessment activities among my pupils is very effective.
Assessing a peer's work helps the reviewer to learn by suggesting improvements and explaining why mistakes were made. Children can explain solutions at a level that is at times clearer than explanations offered by teachers. Also, students can be tougher on each other and more complimentary.

Silvia, Italy

2017-11-06 15:49:56 UTC

I find peer assessment very useful in the classroom, because students are more at ease, speak the same language, are sometimes more straightforward than teachers.
As a participant to this course I appreciated my colleagues' feedbacks and suggestions, they opened my mind, giving me new ideas I hadn't thought of.

Anna Cantacessi, Italy

anna_cantacessi73 — 2017-11-06 15:56:43 UTC

I have started to use peer assessment this year and I can say that it is very useful for better students' performances. It also boosts weaker students to do better. The success of peer assessment and consequently of self-assessment is the building and sharing of rubrics. Rubrics become a kind of guiding maps for students because they perfectly know what they are expected to do for an assigned task. So the learning process is actually in their hands and becomes more effective.

Maribel, Spain

maribelleon — 2017-11-06 16:00:06 UTC

I think that in general, when we speak to teenagers about any topic, they usually feel more comfortable if their own peers are the ones who explains strengths and weaknesses(especially these last ones)
I have started using this some time ago and they are more open to listen to and accept the views peers contribute.
In general, they are rather critical and offer possibilities we had never thought of.

Raffaella Bedini, Italy

2017-11-06 16:45:28 UTC

Peer assessment is very interesting I want to try this approach with my students as soon as possibile.

Marina Duarte

marinad_english — 2017-11-06 16:45:53 UTC

Spain
I think peer assessment is a very valuable tool. Students learn from each other. They are asked to give constructive feedback and that makes them reflect not only in the work that has been done but also on positive ways of addressing problems. Weaker students feel very motivated with peer assessment because they feel they are being helped, rather than graded. And stronger students also benefit because they are asked to reflect and explain. It is also a good opportunity to work on team building.

Enrique Rodríguez, Spain

2017-11-06 16:46:24 UTC

It is true that sometimes kids are harder on each other than teachers. I use peer assesment quite often. Everytime they do a presentation, I always ask their peers to offer comments, but they are reminded they should offer comments in a nice and encouraging way. I have a discussion with them and they seem to realise how important it is to be evaluated by their peers. Rubrics have helped me a great deal.

Sarbu Nicoleta,Romania

nicosarbu — 2017-11-06 16:59:33 UTC

Peer evaluation can also be done on tests using a scale given by the teacher. Students become more responsible and can self-assess correctly, they can also correctly evaluate colleagues and understand why they get a certain grade

Juan Calero, Spain

2017-11-06 17:02:43 UTC

I use peer assessment quite often in my classes to check and correct some tasks. For example, after doing any written activity or listening, students should correct the answers of the person who is next to them. It is great seeing how they act as teachers and how they tell their mates the mistakes they have done and how to correct them.
It is totally true that children understand things better when these are explained by someone of his/her same age.

Alina Buduleanu, Romania

alinabuduleanu — 2017-11-06 17:23:42 UTC

I usually use at my class a criteria evaluation chart which I have found on Pinterest. It works perfectly on peer evaluation and group evaluation.

Antónia Brandão, PT

dolores_brandao — 2017-11-06 17:26:49 UTC

I have few experience with peer assessment . I used it sometimes, but as children weren't used to it, not every time they were positive and kind, although, i thinK that is this kind of assessment was more frequent children would react more positively. As teacher, as i am used to enrol some of the Mooc, now i’m used to peer assessment. I like to help and to be helped.
Sometimes our colleagues give us some important insights

Victoria Carceller (Spain)

VITORITA — 2017-11-06 17:30:22 UTC

I’ve been using peer assessment in the last five years.

At the beginning I gave my students a list of prompts , either positives and for improving. They usually did the peer assessment orally and individually. Now my students do it in groups, I provide the with specific rubrics , depending on the work to evaluate.

I absolutely agree with the opinions given by teachers and pupils in the videos . In my experience peer assessment helps students to be critical not only with their peers but also with them.

Sometimes I feel that it takes too much time but I tell to myself that by doing so they are learning to be critical, empathic and thoughtful.

Margherita

2017-11-06 17:38:09 UTC

I' m using peer assessment this year in a second class. The student proposes his work in class and the peers have to comment it simply: they have a guide to express their comment. It is very useful in order to Become critical not only of other persons but also with themselves. In this way they understand how difficult is for a teacher to arrive to a right assessment about the students.

Dora, Greece

ntanouth — 2017-11-06 17:48:15 UTC

Peer assessment helps students to provide feedback to other students on the quality of their work. Students engaged in commentary on the work of others can heighten their own capacity for judgment and making intellectual choices.

Iskra Nedelcheva, Bulgaria

isi_ned — 2017-11-06 18:26:40 UTC

My classroom is different from the other rooms in our school because of my aquarium wit 5 fishes /one for the every mark in our system - excellent, very food, good, fair, poor/. Every fish has unique name, shape and colour and all the students know them very well. So, my students are 7 - 10 years old, I teach them English and Nature Studies and every lesson is a kind of inquary, we work together, in groups as I help them every time. At the end of the lesson every student put himself a fish /mark/ in his notebook to self-assess his work and participation in the theme/ topic. Twice a month when we have practice and revision we all /students and I/ put colourful fishes /marks/ to the chart with the names of the students - to assesst the best, most active and motivated student of the month.
Sometimes I use a chart with stickers for some topics.

Peppe - Sicily

pref_mara — 2017-11-06 18:31:49 UTC

I like to use self-evaluation methods and I often get all the pupils involved in the work done by their classmates to make them critical.

Helena Reis, Portugal

helena_reis — 2017-11-06 18:37:38 UTC

As I have already mentioned before, I use peer-assessment in my classes and I am going to integrate peer-assessment in my Learning Design because it will include oral presentations to the class and the choice of a group to participate in a school debate and this requires the peer-assessment grids. This makes the students fully involved in each other's works and makes them more critical about their own work and the others'. They also become more autonomous and more aware of evaluation criteria .

Angelica Pavone, Italy

angy_prof2012 — 2017-11-06 19:21:55 UTC

I have been using peer assessment since a few years and I find it very useful. I usually use at my class a criteria evaluation chart which the humanistic department of my school elaborates at the beginning of the year. In this way the students have a guide to express their comment. I like to use self-evaluation methods because it make the students more critic not only of other persons but also with themselves. They are fully involved in each other's works and understand how difficult is a right assessment.

Valbona Albania

valbona_mata2 — 2017-11-06 19:29:19 UTC

i like this metod

Carla Diogo, Portugal

carladiogo31 — 2017-11-06 19:31:07 UTC

I develop projects in every module I give and each project has to be presented to class. I give students a worksheet containing a box in which they will do their self- evaluation, even making reference to their individual performance if necessary. Then each group has to assess the other groups. In that same worksheet they have two sentences that they have to complete:

What I liked most was...
I would suggest you to ...

Then all the opinions are shared in class and is a good way od making them collaborate with each other in a positive way

Ibrahim, Turkey

2017-11-06 19:34:32 UTC

In my classrooms, I've got a really kind, friendly and warm learning atmosphere. Sometimes, when a student makes a common mistake, (and I mean by that, at least half of the class makes that same mistake) and if I know that they won't get offended, I ask them to write their examples on the board. Than I ask all the students to find what is the problem in that example. They discuss it and find the problem and correct it.

Cristian Carotenuto - Rome - Italy

cristian_cris — 2017-11-06 19:38:52 UTC

Peer and self assessment are not that obvious or easy to implement in class.
First of all I believe the classroom learning atmosphere must be relaxed and out of any judgmental condition, which happens any time during my lessons. As to teaching writing and language analysis tasks I always have some students read or produce something and then after the task is completed I ask "What worked properly?" and "What was missing?" so that a common mistake may be clarified and solved to every student and anybody in class may enjoy such a methodology. For recurrent mistakes (especially in written tests) I correct them as follows: I write the sentences or examples on the whitebioard and ask some students where the error actually is and to think over it before correction.
Students become quite critical when it's about progress but less critical when this affects their mark.
Second I ask some students to re-phrase the sentence with a mistake into something new and see whether correction has led to amelioration. I ask some students if the new sentence is correct and where the error was lying and which category it might fir in

Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece.

jennykaroumpali — 2017-11-06 20:21:02 UTC

I experienced peer assessment for the first time as a pupil about 30 years ago in an English lesson. It looked weird to me as peer assessment was not usual in Greece that period.

I record sometimes the music my pupils make (I teach music) , so that to assess both themselves and their other classmates. The first time I did it they shocked. I do it often and they like it. They like assessing not only their own work but also their peers’ work.

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VINCENZO, Italy

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VINCENZO, Italy

studioferrenti — 2017-11-06 20:22:36 UTC

I will start using peer evaluation even if I do not know it well. They will give me the rating books I take with the Flipped Classroom.

Thomas, Greece

thomasboulieris — 2017-11-06 20:34:23 UTC

Though I strongly believe that assessment is part of the school's culture and has to do with all the school staff and all the teachers; and since there are many differences and we can not collaborate to the extend we could decide on common ways of assessment, I usually try formative assessment in the way of a group work where students are helping one another and give and receive tips from the others! This helps them increase strong bonds and develop skills having to do with citizensip and socialization and their critical thinking and decision making! At the same time they master what they are learning by sharing and take in all the information they think important in a collaborative way!

Francesca, Italy

francesca_borghi — 2017-11-06 20:52:33 UTC

I would like to share my experience with peer assessment not as a teacher but as a learner, I particularly liked the peer assessment activities in this course. They gave me the opportunity to reflect on my work not just by reading the feedbacks but especially by rewieving my collegues' works. I can easily confirm that peer assessment is a powerful learning activity for the reviewer and for the reviewee. I am going to try it with my students!

Margarita Dobreva, Bulgaria

2017-11-06 20:52:40 UTC

Peer assessment has it pros and cons, depending on the context it is applied to. For example, in this online course, it may vary to its extremes – either neutral and discouraging, or critical and meaningful. As for my classroom reality, it is often subjective, hence not so efficient, because students tend to be less critical to their friends, or rather stern with those who they don‘t like so much. Therefore, peer assessment does not always achieve the desired outcome, which is why it has to be alternated with the other assessment methods.

Maria Branco, Portugal

2017-11-06 21:11:10 UTC

I have never tried peer review prior to this course. This type of assessment is very interesting and important. It has allowed me to perceive the impact of my work on others and the suggestions given by my peers have contributed to improving my work. Seeing and evaluating the work of others has also been important, as it has also given me clues to improve my work. I'm sorry that some revisions are not being ongood contribution .... But even this is important, because it alerts me to the importance of carrying out an assessment of my peers with responsibility. I will apply this type of assessment to my students. The videos that have been made available are a good help to know how to do it the best way!

Mariya Velcheva, Bulgaria

2017-11-06 21:16:03 UTC

From time to time I use something similar in my classes....I am not exactly sure if this is a peer assessment ..but ...for example when we have a dictation....the students change their works and evaluate them. I had experience when I was a students in a course and every one received a paper fan with the grades and comments from the other participants +the teacher

Antonella Miccio, Italy

antonellamiccio — 2017-11-06 22:28:49 UTC

I discovered Peer Assessment to be a very useful instrument to improve my teaching methods. It’s like when you ask a friend to give an opinion on your work. There is no competition. It is only a way to learn to do things differently and maybe getting to the same results through an easier path. In classroom I always let students work together, make them work in couples or in groups so that they can exchange their opinions, but above all they can support their mates using their own language and get to the final result better than I can do when I use my teaching methods.

Isabel Nunes, Portugal

isabelmiguel — 2017-11-06 23:32:23 UTC

Today i got really happy because, without knowing, i´m applying, the ladder feedback on my formative assessments:) It´s a tool that as been working with students. They feel more confortable when they ear their peers ideas. At the beggining they didn't took it seriously, and they looked at me to see if that was to be taken for real. Nowdays they know that they have to be accurate and pay attention to their peer work. That made them also more responsable for their work too.

Crisorca, Spain

crisorca — 2017-11-07 06:17:00 UTC

I like including peer assessment in class as the students get actively involved in the development of the activity. I give them a rubric about the activity they have done and in pairs or goup of three they have to make the necessary changes in the activity to get a better mark. Another way is to change the notebooks or worksheets and write short comments on post it about other's job. They are students who are really motivated with this type of task

Miguel Morell (Spain) My students sometimes act as teachers and they have to explain to the rest of the class something they have prepared before. It's a good way to know it.

manifold2 — 2017-11-07 06:34:15 UTC

Iuliana, Romania

moise_alin79 — 2017-11-07 06:38:03 UTC

I have never tried peer review. Is very interesting and important. I will try this method in my classroom.

Vesna, Serbia

2017-11-07 07:14:19 UTC

I do peer assessment with all my students but most of them, need to taught how to do it. they're used to saying things that don't give any room for learning whether they're positive or negative so they need to be trained how to speak to each other in ways that can improve their learning.

Peer assessment strategies Aneela junaid pakistan

nilujunaid — 2017-11-07 07:19:34 UTC

— In order for peer assessment to be effective , a method of critiquing and delivering feedback must be established . Peer assessment involves more than a directive of read this and tell the creator what was good / bad . Assignment specific or more general activity specific feedback forms are a great way to achieve this . Having a tangible response to create is more likely to ensure a thorough review of the peer ’s work . Feedback forms can be created in a variety of ways. The formative feedback strategy of placing stars and steps in front of specific feedback pertaining to an assignment lets students see starred comments of elements done well and stepped comments sharing areas for improvement . Peer assessors could be asked to provide a predetermined amount of stars and steps or be allowed to place them as they see fit ( as long as both markings are utilized ) . Even younger students could easily complete the Star & Step strategy. This method can help students determine the areas of their work that need further attention and the elements that are done well .

Eva, Hungary

evatoth84 — 2017-11-07 07:56:38 UTC

Voting for each other's products at the end pf the project: they cannot vote for their own work, they have to use their critical thinking to evaluate each other's work.

VENERA CAMPISI ITALY

campisialessia — 2017-11-07 08:17:24 UTC

I think that peer assessment to be very important for learning. I divided for example my students into three or four groups and together they can do more activities. This method improve my approach with my students because I study their reactions to the difficults and I help them to solve their problems.

Cristina, Spain

cestudis_secundaria — 2017-11-07 08:24:40 UTC

I use peer assessment when I am teaching grammar, my students sit together with a partner and they study the examples I give them and they need to find out the way the grammar point works. They learn a lot working in pairs.

Silvia Patrizia RUGGERI, Italy

silviap_ruggeri — 2017-11-07 08:57:39 UTC

I use often peer assessment during oral exam. I ask my students to refer what they like about their peers' answers and suggest their peers how to improve their answers.

Rosa, Italy

2017-11-07 11:15:47 UTC

I really appreciate the peer experience participating in peer assessment type activities on this course. Surely, I will adopt this technique with my students.

Mar O, Spain

2017-11-07 12:15:04 UTC

Peer assessment activities among my pupils is very effective.

They can help them to resolve problems, mistakes. They can explain solutions carrying out some responsibilities.

The videos are very interesting.

Alyssia Vendas, Portugal

2017-11-07 12:46:23 UTC

At the school I work at, children under 5 do not get assessed. They are asked to do projects at home and at school, and they are asked to share their findings with the other children but they are not capable of peer assessing.

However, I have done peer assessments in other specific periods of my life: in school, at work, and now for this course.

At school many times we would correct each other’s activities. We would exchange papers with the student next to us and then correct their paper and give them a grade

At work, every year we are asked to assess a colleague. We have a list where they ask questions about the person and then we must write an answer to the question and rate the persons skills in relation to the question in a scale from 1-5.

Finally, I have been doing peer assessment through the PBL course, since we have been receiving other colleagues work to review and give and opinion. I believe that grading doesn’t always have to be related to a specific grade (A: B: C: D etc.), I believe that giving and opinion is also an assessment as well as making the child think in a bigger plan so that they can find more complete answers.

I also believe that peer assessment is great way of exchanging ideas and obtaining answers and that is why I totally agree with this method of assessment.

Miguel Cecilio, Spain

alumnoscalvin — 2017-11-07 12:52:26 UTC

I often use peer assessment with my students, it's a good source of ideas for my teaching process. Usually, I use a online tool called "socrative" and sometimes Google forms or any other tool.

Adriana from Romania

adriana_popa72 — 2017-11-07 13:04:43 UTC

I teach at preschool level and I could tell you that student assessment is beneficial because at this age the children are very honest and express their opinions about their work and that of their very relaxed colleagues, without fear of being judged for their opinions. For example, when using group work in class, students are accustomed to expressing their opinions about the project at work and to give feedback on colleagues' work, which makes teamwork productive.

Javier Moreno. spain

2017-11-07 13:07:04 UTC

It depends on the subject or unit we are teaching. For instance, one I delivery the sheet work just done from the owne classmate to another classmate so to revise his/her work at the same time another colleagues was doing the same task In a PDI. A way of how assess their own work which is being revising for their peers.

Laura ros, spain

2017-11-07 13:10:54 UTC

I have never tried peer assessment but I use the mini teacher rol, and they stop the class if the mini teacher or the children are wrong.

Stanley,Nigeria

stanonyedika — 2017-11-07 15:10:43 UTC

I use formative assessment at different stages to gauge learners level of understanding.Learners have opportunity to comment on the work of others and reverse their assignment.

Fátima, Portugal

fatimasilva1407 — 2017-11-07 15:24:22 UTC

I use to do group work and pair work quite often in my 12thEFL class either for designing projects , preparing a presentation or to discuss a theme/issue. In all the situations students are asked to complete a pair/group participation assessment grid which improves the quality of collaborative work and facilitates team expectations and helps to monitor progress constantly.

Fernanda, Portugal

fmbravis — 2017-11-07 15:34:15 UTC

Peer assessment is very useful and it really helps. In this course, for example, I value the contributions from my collegues because I know they have many of the restrictions and problems I do. We can benefit from each other and our experience. With students it works in a similar way, I believe.

Azize Ozcan,Turkey

2017-11-07 15:52:28 UTC

I generally use Peer Assessment in the writing activities.First the students become pairs.Then they write öne of the text types.Then they proofread each other's writin and take their paper back.They may correct the mistakes and write the text again and as the last step, teacher writes Feedback

Maria Stafilakou ,Greece

stafilakou67 — 2017-11-07 17:32:53 UTC

Peer assessment is not such a common way to assess the teaching and learningprogress in my country. I rarely use peer assessment unless it comes to writing tasks or projects .The students find it helpful and gain a lot from it.They seem to get a better understanding of their mistakes or oversights .

Anna Maria Nardo, Italy

2017-11-07 18:36:32 UTC

The process of peer assessment is very useful, I use it during the listening/speaking activity because students can correct and help each other. But the best way to use it was the possibility to exchange ideas and comments during this course. My colleagues' contribution was important to understand and complete different experiences during the learning process of this course.

Liliia Dmytrenko, Ukraine

lilydmitrenk — 2017-11-07 18:58:26 UTC

Sometimes I use peer assesment in evaluating students. For example for project each group can be got 10 points from the teacher and 2 additional points from the other group of students in class

Maria Rosaria Tafuro, Italy

tafymar — 2017-11-07 19:19:46 UTC

I often use peer assessment, because I noticed that pupils pay more attention to the mistakes they do and learn rules quicker

Laura Buján, Spain

lmbujan_scac — 2017-11-07 19:42:08 UTC

Peer assessment is not common in Spain and, honestly, I don't see why. It's benefits are obvious and it promotes learning to learn as well as the student's self-development. My experience with peer assessment is basically what I've done throughout this course and I've enjoyed it. I love the feeling of being able to help other people in my situation and to apply to my Learning Design, not just their feedback, my also my new views after assessing others.

Elizabeth Brugger Pagès, France

elizabethpages — 2017-11-07 20:33:56 UTC

After a project, students were required to assess each other’s contributions and roles in the group. I was surprised at how serious they took this task and how honest, kind, open and critical they were with each other. I found that their assessment of each other was more valuable than mine.

Iryna Kharchenko, Ukraine

pcv2002irisha — 2017-11-07 21:25:30 UTC

I only recently started to use peer assessment and mostly with some written works in class or in project work, when students assess their collaboration, involvement and interdependence. I think such kind of assessment really help students to develop not only as learners, but also as responsible citizens of the 21st century,

Magda, Spain

mventur7 — 2017-11-07 21:34:28 UTC

I usually use peer assessment with wiritings, they took it very seriously. After a work project they aso assess each other and they are often stricter than me.

Juan Pablo, Spain

jpabloteba — 2017-11-07 21:39:29 UTC

Diego Arevalo, Spain

2017-11-07 21:48:13 UTC

I could integrate peer assessment for writings and speeches, altough I am afraid pupils are influenced by their friendships (if one is my friend, they will have good mark)

Marianna Penna, Greece

mariannapenna — 2017-11-07 22:38:28 UTC

I use peer assessment in writing tasks and projects. The students can be great at giving feedback to each other but only inside a certain framework. Specifically in projects, students long for their peers' immediate and clear feedback and that's why we dedicate time to the presentation, submission of questions and discussion.
I have also applied peer assessment in my drama club sessions. Students are called to assess other students' acting in auditions and rehearsals and, believe me, it can be really helpful.

Vanesa, Croatia

2017-11-08 06:24:19 UTC

I have never used peer assessment but I want to integrate it in my work.

Snjezana Kovacevic, Croatia

knjiznica_zlata — 2017-11-08 08:11:15 UTC

I haven't used peer assessment yet, but I have participated in many educations where I had to assess the work of my colleague ( besides this one) and and vice versa. Constructive critique is good.

Vicky Florou, Greece

vickyflorou2016 — 2017-11-08 08:35:22 UTC

It is not common practice in our schools to use peer assessment, therefore I'm not very comfortable with it. I've used rubrics of assessment in some cases when doing project work with the students. However, these rubrics were given to all teachers to use, so we didn't have any say on them, nor did the students. I'm willing to try to incorporate this kind of assessment in my learning design and I do feel that peer assessment seems promising and rewarding.

Galya Baeva, Bulgaria

gbaeva — 2017-11-08 09:38:25 UTC

Once the task was to make a dialogue in order to explore the “pro” and “contra”, students and me together created a rubric for peer assessment. It includes the following questions :

Are enough aspects of the issue included in the dialogue?

Options: just a few aspects; many, but not enough; the dialogue Is complete

Are the arguments essential or superficial?

Options: superficial; some of them are essential; almost all are essential

Do the arguments include real life evidences or they are fabricated?

Options: arguments are fabricated; arguments are both kinds; arguments include real life problems

Maria Antonietta, Italy

2017-11-08 09:49:11 UTC

I’ve had some experiences with peer assessment both as a participant in peer assessment activities on three courses so far and as a teacher organizing peer assessment activities with my students.

As a participant I’ve always posted my personal answer to an assigned task. This task has been reviewed by other colleagues and I’ve had to review my colleagues’ work as well according to some established markers aiming at improving the assessed work.

As a teacher sometimes I’ve had to create an observation checklist and give it to my students so that they could assess their mates both during and at the end of an activity. So that they could establish if one or more aspects of the considered activity needed improvement or was judged satisfactory, good or even excellent.

Anyway all my experiences can be generally held very satisfactory in so far as they have tended to be constructive.

Esther (France)

2017-11-08 10:25:05 UTC

In Art class we often have peer critiques and depending on the level it may be more or less intense.

Bernardete, Portugal

2017-11-08 10:53:26 UTC

The peer assessment is sometimes used when they work in groups and they assess what each of them have done, or even in different groups.

Alicia, Spain

aldebri — 2017-11-08 12:27:04 UTC

I usually use peer assessment, for example, in speaking interactions or writing compositions.
Low level students benefit from assessment from an average classmate,as well as gifted students feel comfortable when they assess high level classmates productions.
In my opinion, the key points for students is to use rubrics or checklist properly, to be able to get rid of their shyness and show their opinions with no fear and, finally, to value and use tolerant and respectful attitudes.
On the other hand, teachers would need to know students very well to join the two right classmates according to the activity to be assessed.

Marija Grah, Croatia

marcagrh — 2017-11-08 12:58:08 UTC

I participated in peer assessment activities many times as a part of educational courses. I practise rubrics for peer assessment and also I often encourage my pupils to give feedback to their friends.

Rosa Risueño, Spain

2017-11-08 15:21:40 UTC

The first time I experienced peer assessment it was as participant in a course and I realized that it is very enriching. It allows you to improve learning since there are so many different ways of doing things as people in the world, and this always brings something new to your work.

Melanie, France

2017-11-08 15:54:49 UTC

I have a document that I call the traffic light sheet. They have the objectives per unit. It can be used for self assessment and peer assessment. When they do a project or a presentation, the student will use this document to share feedback. If it is green, it is good, orange: not completely done/understood, red: not good at all. They also write their comment positive and negative to explain the reason of their choices.

Carla Martins, Portugal

csosvmartins — 2017-11-08 16:08:02 UTC

I usually use peer assessment in classroom in some specific tasks like doing a model or a poster although I’ve never done it in a sistematic way. As in cooperative learning, I find it very useful for both parts so I think I’ll use it more often in the future.

Marina Gurina (Ukraine)

mariam_72 — 2017-11-08 16:54:24 UTC

We use many kinds of assessments. One of them is peer assesment. Students present their results and we discuss them. Students must be tolerant.

Marina G

mariam_72 — 2017-11-08 16:54:29 UTC

David, Spain

dnavarro6 — 2017-11-08 17:15:37 UTC

I use peer assessment when working in group but I think that is mainly grade assessment. Now I know how to use proper self assessment with the Ladder of Feedback. Students must talk about their work, make suggestions and learn through the process of peer assessment. This is far more than a grade.

Zulmira Magalhães, Portugal

zulmiramag — 2017-11-08 17:22:47 UTC

In class with my students, at the end of each school term, I use self-assessment (a sheet with several topics that students must fill with "bad" or "not bad but not good" or "good"and hetero-evaluation of all class. But I never used peer-assessment in this way I'm learning here in this course. I only use peer-assessment in these MOOC's, like this one. This is great because I've learned a lot with my colleagues and I hope that my ideas also helped others.

Gine

gine_tomas — 2017-11-08 17:33:17 UTC

I think that formative assessment is based on the importance of student self-assessment as activating students as owners of their own learning and peer assessment. In my class I have organized peer assessment activities with my students. The students prepared a kind of card that contained a series of standards and rubrics about the contents of the task they had to do. Afterwards they did the self assessment and they also gave feedback the peer assessment. The result of this type of assessment was very interesting because the students were very involved in the process of evaluating their classmates and this led them to ask questions and to reflect.

Carmela, Italy

carmelacastronovo1 — 2017-11-08 18:46:43 UTC

I Try not only self to critically evaluate my work, I ask the opinion of my collegues how they do with me. In class I tell the students to evaluate all time their work to improve themselves. It is very important to know how to make mistakes in order to correct them, in any case we ask for help from others.

Maria Jacinto, Portugal

luisad741 — 2017-11-08 18:47:54 UTC

I use peer assessement as well as self assessement in many projects and oral presentations in my classes. For instance my students have to read a book each term and make an oral presentation of it. All students have a paper in which they assess their peers and their own presentation. At the end of the presentation two of them are chosen to assess their peers and give the reason for their grade. Sometimes they can see things that I haven't noticed and they are really true about the others' work. It is rewarding.

Nicolae C., Romania

2017-11-08 18:58:29 UTC

I usually use this method when I teach the lesson. The pupils have new ideas, they colaborate efficiently and discover the solutions of different problems. Sometimes this feedback means a new aproach of lesson.

Jesús Vázquez, Spain

Seezunge — 2017-11-08 19:23:41 UTC

Peer assessment is a good experience to do. It devolops the learnig not only the students, but also of the teachers. In my opinion because in this process the children learn to think, to collaborate, to respect other people's opinion and they accept the mistake. I also found that mistakes corrected by fellow students are better remembered than when corrected by the teacher.

Lena, Germany

2017-11-08 19:55:37 UTC

I often use peer assessment in my language classes when students have to write texts on specific topics. Before I read the text, another student has to assess it. Then the student can improve it before he gets some feedback from me as a teacher.

Ana Cotovio, Portugal

2017-11-08 20:09:45 UTC

I do peer assessment with my students when they do group work, oral presentations, reading texts or writing texts. Usually peer assessment is well accepted by students who are being evaluated. This assessment contributes to improve the performance of the evaluator and the evaluated because the evaluated one can improve his work and the evaluator also feels the need to improve his performance in his work.

Maria, Spain.

mariadelcasar — 2017-11-08 20:47:57 UTC

I often do peer assessment with my students when they work in groups. One group of students evaluates another.
I have never used the feedback ladder, but I'm thinking on including it in my classes.

Sanja Dabic, Spain

2017-11-08 20:49:22 UTC

Sometimes students complete the peer's report. Is a way to check if they have understood the topic and the peer could improve the original work.

On other occasions, students apply rubrics, that we have built together, to own/peer's work.

Christos, GREECE

christos_chachoudis — 2017-11-08 20:51:15 UTC

I often do peer assessment with my students in order to encourage collaboration in class. This is a project with prospects for the students and their relations in the class and of course in the society.

Fabrizio

2017-11-08 20:56:19 UTC

I use peer assessment during the writing lab hours: students read topics written by classmates and identify errors and positive elements.

Patricia (Spain)

lopezescuriola — 2017-11-08 22:20:23 UTC

I usually use peer assessment making students correct other students' activities in class.
Or if we do projects students of other groups can assess other teams' projects.

Andreja Jertec, Croatia

j_andreja22 — 2017-11-09 07:17:00 UTC

I sometimes use peer assessment in my work. Students are better understanding on topics, they are more involved in work, and they get more motivation for learning.
I will include a Letter of Feedback in my learning.

Cristina Marques, Portugal

conchitamarques — 2017-11-09 15:13:43 UTC

Since always tried to implement in my classes peer assessment, but not as much as I would like. I feel that students are very receptive to this type of practice, but if they are younger students, there is a lack of rigor in the detection and correction of mistakes of colleagues, which requires the teacher to double care.

Cristina Urtiaga, Spain

2017-11-09 16:00:15 UTC

I don’t use peer assessment often in my classes. I have only used it to correct written expression, in order that students identify grammar, vocabulary or orthografic mistakes. I think this exercise benefits the person who assesses (if they are able to identify and correct a mistake, that means that they master what they should know), but, the way I apply it, it is not focused to provide such a rich feedback.

I think the ladder of feedback is very interesting and rich to the student being corrected, too. But I think it Works well when the peer assessment is done among peers having the same age. I guess my youngest students would repress their opinions, if they had to assess an older one (in my class there are students being 14 until 55 years old).

I have done some MOOCs which have been evaluated by peer assessment and I have to say that they were not very thoughtfull neither effective. I think we all tend to be too kind when assessing the work of other people and we don’t give very valuable suggestions (I include myself). Or we just don’t know how to do it better.

Patricia, Spain

patriciadiazcidoncha — 2017-11-09 16:08:37 UTC

I normally use peer assessment as all my mates here, in written activities, dictations and grammar points. But last week I did something different. My students had to work in teams in order to create a poster about different European countries. As you know, when students work in groups, there are always students who work more than others so I made a rubric regarding the different roles in the team. My students assessed the rest of the group and even themselves. It was surprising how stric they are, more tham me!!!!

JOSÉ A. MUÑOZ. SPAIN

2017-11-09 16:19:31 UTC

In my opinioon this is a good tool. I use peer assessment very often, but I could use it more. For example, in their team´s works they must evaluate their patners.

Jovita Pigem, Spain

2017-11-09 17:07:45 UTC

I use the peer assessement when the students work in group. I give them the opportunity to work whith independence and they really like. I'm going to include the feedback ladder, I consider it's a very good idea because the students accept better the criticism of the peers than the criticism of the teacher.

Grazia,Italy

2017-11-09 17:22:11 UTC

I’ve only had a single experience with peer assessment as a participant in peer assessment activities on a Teacher Academy course .As a teacher instead, I organized peer assessment activities with my students

All my experiences can be generally considered very satisfactory.

Aurora, Italy

2017-11-09 17:47:37 UTC

I don't use peer assesment very often in my classes. I want to use it more in the future

Andrea

2017-11-09 18:11:08 UTC

I think it is important. I tried to use it in a not continuous way.
I want to articulate and make it clearer in my mind, to use it in an effective way.
Sometimes students are not so open to peer comments, in my experience.

Ana Cristina, Spain

2017-11-09 18:37:56 UTC

I realize that peer assesment is a very good tool, although I only use it when my students are working in group. I believe that I´ll use it more now.

Nazaret Martínez, Spain.

nmartinez19 — 2017-11-09 18:55:37 UTC

I have already used peer assessment. But I have discovered I do not do it properly. Because when they use my rubric to assess their classmates in their group, they obviously provide feedback, but finally it was the grade they obtain. And now I have understood that the teacher must be the person who provides the final grade. I think I will do it wrongly because I did not give time after the peer assessment to review their work again and use the feedback.

Sofia Venetopoulou, Greece

svenetopoulou — 2017-11-09 19:52:18 UTC

Only recently have I started to use peer assessment.I think students enjoy it too!

Sonila Drini,Albania

2017-11-09 20:45:06 UTC

I actually used peer assessment mostly when having to do with group working or project and I have to admit that is suprisingly how efficent it came out.

Carolina,Italy

carolinapaglia — 2017-11-09 21:09:27 UTC

I think peer assessment is a good idea, it encourages students to help and accept advice

Anna, Italy

luica771 — 2017-11-09 21:27:52 UTC

I use peer Assessment every time is possible: divided in groups, students can compare their works, even individual works, and discuss about them. Everybody can improve his job following advices and, most of all, relationships in the class become better, stronger.

Anne-Laure, France

almhwalker — 2017-11-09 21:28:03 UTC

Anne-Laure, France

almhwalker — 2017-11-09 21:28:06 UTC

Up until now, I have mostly used peer assessment when students were doing presentations or creating mind maps. The information shared and presented in this module will definitely help me use this tool more effectively.

Sarah Mallia, Malta

sarahborg85 — 2017-11-09 21:44:13 UTC

I like using peer assessment in Creative writing and presentations. In my learning design I can include it when students go through the list of what is healthy and what is not.

Maria Rizza/ Sicily

rowri — 2017-11-09 21:46:32 UTC

I use peer evaluation and rubrics but not very often. My students are not used to this type of activity because the learning style in my school is very traditional unfortunally. Yet, I know that peer assessment is vey useful because it lets students reflect and also understand the difficulties of evaluting someone's work. It is a serious task indeed . Moreover peer evaluation has to be structured very carefully and the teacher has to be very professionally prepared in order to create and select the most appropriate and reliable criteria. I found the ladder of feedback useful and I am going to read more to understand it more deeply

Cristina Marques, Portugal

crismarques17 — 2017-11-09 22:28:54 UTC

Occasionally i organize summative peer assessment activities with my students.
Now I'm preparing a different activitie that goes like this: each student is creating a sequence of figures with Geogebra to be published in a geogebra group; afterwards all the students can comment on each others creations in a gentle, polite and constructive manner; then the students can improve their creation and make it public if they want to.
In fact i have very little experience in peer assessment, both with my peers and with my students.

Marta Beré. Spain

mbere — 2017-11-10 12:35:20 UTC

I have never used peer evaluation and I do not know how to introduce it in preschool either. I see it a little more complicated.

Elena, Italy

2017-11-10 15:21:07 UTC

I proposed peer assessment during a few lessons at high school and the studends took this step really seriously. I have noticed that, when the assess comes from a peer it is for them an advice while, when it comes from a teacher it is more like a judjment. I am curious to see how students of a lower age (elementary, middle school) would deal with peer assessment.

Ulfet, Turkey

2017-11-10 15:38:11 UTC

In my classes or in my school, I/we generally use peer assessment as I believe it is one of best way to find what we have done or the things we do are enough.

Katarzyna, Poland

2017-11-10 16:27:46 UTC

I commonly use peer assessment in my classes, especially when it comes to writing. I can see my students actually learn a lot when they assess others' productions and they realise what examiners expect from their pieces of writing. Besides, they are eager to openly criticise their partner's careless handwriting which is really helpful for me as a teacher:)

Donatella, Italy

donatelladegregorio — 2017-11-10 16:57:12 UTC

Self and peer assessment are useful tools to improve one's learning. I sometimes use it in my classrooms and I've noticed that giving feedback for students to their mates is a way to streghten their knowledge, their character and their sense of responsibility. They also better their sense of "fairness" if they are asked to give themselves a mark. They are even stricter than I am!

Tiziana I., Italy

ioptiziana — 2017-11-10 17:21:10 UTC

I have taken part in peer assessment activities while taking other Teacher Academy courses and I have found some of the comments my colleagues made helpful and stimulating. I have also organised peer assessment activities for my students (they had to assess other students' Power Point presentations). This activity was successful and useful for the students. I think that part of the success of this activity was due to my providing them with a checklist of things to pay attention to, so that their feedback was as detailed as possible.
I think that I will use the Ladder of Feedback as a further tool to perfect this kind of activities in my classroom.

Giuseppe, Italy

giovicastelli — 2017-11-10 17:49:07 UTC

I could introduce peer assessment activities between the different communicative tasks (“the communication stage”) and right before the groups’ performances in front of the class so that students can focus on each other’s potentialities and weaknesses. Once they have discussed and suggested improvements to each other, we can move to final assessment.

Bernarda, Slovenia

bernarda_boznar — 2017-11-10 17:55:29 UTC

Peer assesment is powerfull. I have taken part in all P2P activities in PBL. it was intersting to read comments of other teachers. Sometimes I got two different views. One that everything is OK and the other that the general idea is nice, but there can be some improvements. Which one do you think is more usefull? The second one of course, because it helps me to improove my teaching. I think that I will use more P2P assesment in my class. Righ now I collected some students work (a tourist brochuse about their village or their farm) and beside my assesment they will get the P2P assesment too.

Laura O., Romania

maria80lmo — 2017-11-10 17:58:00 UTC

Sometimes I used this method when the students had a project done. After presenting what they did, the other groups were able to catch up or comment on the projects of their colleagues. I think it is quite interesting, students learn accepting the opinion of others, everything being done under the observation and guidance of the proposer.

Dragana, Croatia

dpavicicst — 2017-11-10 20:17:58 UTC

This course introduce to me a great way pf a peer assessment beetwen teachers. Rewieving our lessons among us is a great pressefional development which I tried to put in my school among my colleguages. You guess it, no success! When it comes to students assements, I like correcting test together with children and disscus every grade with them. Their word and grade is usually last.

Tânia Serrão, Portugal

taniaserraogomes — 2017-11-10 21:52:09 UTC

Concerning the experience I had in this group with peer assessment I can say that it was positive. I think that the exchange of opinions enhances the work. I agree entirely with the application of this kind of assessment with my students. The impact is positive and students are concerned about improving their work.

Paula, Spain

paulacrespom — 2017-11-11 08:09:06 UTC

I sometimes have my students assess their classmates' activities. On my learning Design I have included peer assessment. Students have to give their opinion to the other projects.

Manuel Marín, Spain

ManuelMarin — 2017-11-11 08:56:12 UTC

My ICT students are preparing a presentation about OS this week, I think it's a good opportunity to integrate peer assessment. I've been reading more about using THE LADDER OF FEEDBACK and I like it a lot. I'm sure it'll work with my students

Dimitrina, Bulgaria

dimi_arnaudova — 2017-11-11 11:19:47 UTC

When my students work on projects they usually have to help each other giving feedback to what their peers have done well, or what can be improved. I provide them with a peer-assessment worksheet and they can follow the design of the questions to motivate their opinion.

Nuno Pedroso, Portugal

nuno_pedroso — 2017-11-11 11:30:16 UTC

My experience in peer review is based on oral presentations of works, concept maps, but also on the peer-to-peer presentation of the ideas that you plan to implement in the project you are going to develop, and in this way listening to the ideas that might improve the ideas you initially had, in the end make this presentation again for the students of the different classes

Magdalena, Spain

mariamagdalen_perez — 2017-11-11 14:57:21 UTC

I do not usually use peer assessment with my students because my subject is English as a second language, they are quite young and they don't have the necessary language to do it in the foreign language. Assessing my course partners here has been a challenge. As I am not used to do it I have to think a lot about how to express myself when I have to give my opinion about the things that can be improved in my peer's work. I really think now that peer assessment can be very positive since I have received good advices on my work that I have taken into consideration and they have improved it.
I want to learn more about the ladder of feedback and see a way to use is in my lessons.

Antonella,

avenusitita — 2017-11-11 15:01:56 UTC

I completely agree on the fact that peer assessment is not only a way to evaluate students’ work but it is also a way to motivate them to do thing better. There is nothing as important for them than the peer judgment: when I must evaluate them making them answering questions, they feel really worried about other students’ judgment and they often ask me not to let them answer in front of the classroom even if they know the answers. This means that peer-assessment is also a way to make them work at their best capabilities. For that reason it will be better if a project ends up involving the school community, the families with a demonstration such as a gallery of works, a recital and so on…

This will also help students to acquire communicative skills.

Dafinka Nikolova,

dafinka_bg_sm — 2017-11-11 15:07:18 UTC

I think that peer assessment is very useful. In my group projects I use peer assessment. In my lessons I usually use both peer assessment and a self assessment. With several criteria in the Rubrics my students review their classmates activities, provide a feedback and can grade their peers. So they become very responsible and committed. The peer review in the PBL course is very inspirational and helpful.

Gisella, Italy

gisellaroner — 2017-11-11 17:43:44 UTC

I usually use peer assessment to check homework or some special activities: I'm currently using an elearning platform with my older students , where they can post comments to their friends' products and suggest materials or ideas to improve the lesson.
I sometimes use peer revision with colleagues: working together is always a good way to spread good practice and improve our teaching.

Antonella Sasanelli, Italy

antonella_sasanelli — 2017-11-11 17:44:32 UTC

I found that emotional and relational aspects related to peer-formative-assessment are essential for the awareness of their potential: so that, I have students peer-assess their knowledge about each one I think the main concepts of the learning unit.

Rita Navega, Portugal

ritanavega — 2017-11-11 18:30:12 UTC

When students communicate their work, I ask them to reflect on it (self-assessment), as well as invite all other students to evaluate their work (hetero-evaluation): what they liked the most, what they would change, what questions they wanted to ask their colleague.
In addition, sometimes when they perform the tasks proposed in the classroom, they compare their work with their peers, clarifying doubts. Most students like to help others and, above all, to explain how they can improve a certain aspect.

Marta, Portugal

martaisabelconstantino — 2017-11-11 18:58:57 UTC

Sometimes in the classroom the students make peer evaluation of the developed works. They make suggestions for improvement, give their opinion. help you improve your colleague's work.
During this course the feedback of colleagues has been very useful and useful in order to readjust and improve my work.

Pinelopi, Greece

2017-11-11 19:05:51 UTC

The kind of assessment I implememt in my classroom is only self assessment. The peer assessment I saw in the video offered me valuable knowledge! It is a real inspiration as it has no relation to the rigid character of the traditional assessment. The participation in the peer assessment activity on the course proves to be quite useful and makes me feel 'richer' as a teacher. Peer assessment can be a precious tool for our work and I guess it can offer greatly to the students too as it takes critical thinking and responsibility to judge.

Miriam, Italy

miriamscafatihpg23 — 2017-11-11 19:07:31 UTC

Peer assesment is very important for students. They can give their opinions and make suggestions

Damjana, Slovenia

damjana_nanut — 2017-11-12 00:05:38 UTC

Peer assesment is a verry important part of mine assesment. I decided that students are more critical and strict than a teacher. They really enjoy when they are a part of assesment. I am trying to involve them as much as possible.

Nikoleta,Cyprus

nikoletapalm — 2017-11-12 01:20:40 UTC

I must admit that I rarely use peer assessment in my classes due to lack of time (I only have 2 times a week with each class). However, it is very useful when it happens. Both parts benefit from this procedure. I also find it very useful in the context of this course! The feedback I received from a specific colleague in Module 1 was so inspiring for my Learnig Plan!

Serena S, Italy

iw3hip — 2017-11-12 08:34:53 UTC

I strongly believe in peer assessment.
On the one hand, I have had some positive experiences in my job receiving peer assessment from my colleagues both in some formative courses (such as Teacher Academy's courses) and in the constant dialogue and feedback I have with my class colleagues.
On the other hand, I am trying to adopt peer assessment during my students' activities in class. I have young pupils (age 7-8) and t is not so easy to make them reflect on their peers' work, but it gives good results.

Mercedes, Spain

2017-11-12 09:45:19 UTC

In physical education subject, I use peer evaluation because this way I check if they have assimilated well the phases of the technical gestures while evaluating the peers

Manuel Marín, Spain

ManuelMarin — 2017-11-12 10:07:15 UTC

I think it'll be easy to integrate peer assessment in a ICT lab, since they'll be able to share with different peers their works and we use different common online spaces like Gdrive.
I just need to think on the best way to give them positive reasons to do that in a constructive way.

Crstina Consonni, Italy

cri_cons — 2017-11-12 11:01:50 UTC

I did not have self-assessment experiences except for the UDA

Sofia Nascimento, Portugal

largodaprincesa — 2017-11-12 11:19:16 UTC

As a teacher I organize peer assessment activities in very specific moments: oral presentations and team or pair work.
With older students, I think I can extend this practice as a way to enrich their work.

ISABEL MORENO

antoniaisabelmoreno — 2017-11-12 12:02:37 UTC

I use peer assessment with oral presentations and team work. I have designed a couple of rubricss to do so, which are the reduced version of my own rubrics. We comment on the different items before the presentation is prepared so that they know what is going to be graded before they start prepairing it. They are very attentive during the presentations in order not to miss any detail of what they have to assess.I will include the ladder for feedback, I think it is very useful.

Lorena Contreras, Spain

2017-11-12 12:36:03 UTC

When I was a student, sometimes we did peer assessment especially when we make same work in groups and we had to explain it to an audience. The audience had to assess us.

As a teacher, sometimes, I use peer assessment in different activities. For example, when we do the assembly if we are speaking about the weather and one of the pupils is confused, I ask the others if he/she is right. Sometimes , when they make a poster or a craft , I ask the others if they like or not and what we could do to improve it.

Alessandra G., Italy

scrocchia67 — 2017-11-12 13:27:08 UTC

It would be advisable to start with peer and self assessment from the very first classes because children and teenagers, in particular, need more time to get used to this important activity. I have experienced peer assessment at the end of a particular stage of a project. Students usually are direct in underlining the possible weaknesses of their classmates, but their evaluation is always well accepted by everyone.

Argiro, Greece

Argiro_ — 2017-11-12 14:08:29 UTC

I usually have my students involved in peer assessment after an essay (when done individually) or a group activity. They are all acquainted with the criteria that they are going to be graded by and, as a result, they participate more actively in the lesson. Also, they find it easier to accept their peers' opinion when something needs to be improved or changed.

Manolo García, Spain

2017-11-12 14:31:59 UTC

I informally have done peer assessment when some students has finished all the tasks, sending them to help the ones that need extra help.

But now I want to use peer assessment in a more formal and organized way from the beginning to the end. But I should prepare the necessary scaffolding and training because my students have never done this and I we only have two hours per week.

It doesn't mind if I couldn't see all the curricular content because this skills are important in general and in the students' future learning in particular.

Gabriela Petrichei, Romania

gabi_petrichei — 2017-11-12 15:02:32 UTC

In my opinion, peer assessment in important not only for the reviewer but also for the reviewed. Students learn to improve their own work by analising others. They learn to express opinions, make suggestions, be objective.

Ivana, Slovakia

luptacikova_ivana — 2017-11-12 15:10:00 UTC

My experiencies with are very weak. I tried to use it one but it was not thoughtful. Students assessed work of each other and they had to say only two things. The first - what and why they liked on the work; the second one - say one suggestion for future.
After watching video I really liked the lader of feedback and I decided to try it in my lesson.

Nicolina Graziano, Italy

nicolina_graziano — 2017-11-12 16:20:04 UTC

I completely agree that peer assessment is both a way to evaluate students’ work and a way to motivate them to do things better. I have taken part in peer assessment activity in other online courses and I found the comments of my colleagues helpful and stimulating. I have organised peer assessment activities for my students of year 3 : they have to assess other students Padlet presentation . I am sure this activity will be successful and useful for them. I will provide students with a checklist of things to pay attention to and I think I will use the Ladder of feedback as a further tool, because I find it very interesting. In my classroom I often let students work together, make them work in groups or in couples, because in this way they can excange their opinion, use their langage and get the final result better than I can do.

Patrizia, Italy

2017-11-12 16:21:16 UTC

I think peer assessment is important and that it often happens that students assess each other's work because they intervene, judge especially when they work together.

Beatriz, Spain

beita_014 — 2017-11-12 16:26:05 UTC

In my opinion, peer assesment is a really good way to assess students. I think students learn a lot through this way. The feedback ladder seems easy to use for the, the four steps they should follow are direct and clear.

Maurizio, Italy

tormau — 2017-11-12 16:38:44 UTC

My first peer evaluation experience was 3 years ago in a module in a Master of Education on the Use of Digital Technology. And it was just within a task developed according to the PBL methodology. In that case we were the students. Professor Mario Rotta had created a small evaluation book and each working group expressed a final judgment on the products made by the other groups.

Anna-Rita Italy

annarita_rss — 2017-11-12 16:54:42 UTC

I participated to many courses so I worked in peer assessment type activities many time but It is never really easy to assess. I think that rubrics are really useful.
I had very seldom organized peer assessment activities with my students because I didn't know that Rubrics were aviable. I have discovered them only a short time ago but now I have introduced them in my assessment and I try to use them.

Paula Louçã

amadorpaula2 — 2017-11-12 17:00:46 UTC

I have done peer assessment in an inappropriate way and in some activities I try to avoid it because I fear it may be a moment where there is a projection of aggression, but when I read the attached documents and after viewing the videos I understood that there is a previous work that should be done as an indication of rubrics and allowing the students to go through the ladder of feedback seems like an excellent idea.

Maria Diana, Italy

mariadianaiannelli1 — 2017-11-12 17:18:18 UTC

I tryied to use peer assessment during school activities. I used it to have an assessment of homeworks and for presentation or test where students have to show orally their knowledge. But I realize now that I was using it wrongly because at the end I asked them to give a grade or something that could be used as a grade. I'll change it, trying to use the ladder of feedback and using a simplified rubric for the evaluation.

Elena Falcó, Spain

efalver — 2017-11-12 17:19:21 UTC

I´ve participated in some online courses where peer assessment is used and I think it is a very useful way to assess one's work because it is respectful with others' work and at the same time provides important feedback. I think that the rubrics can help pupils to assess other's work, I haven't applied them in my lessons but I would like to, that is why I wold try with the "feedback ladder" with my pupils.

I partecipated in a course about using drama in the classroom. At the end each partecipant had to write a positive comment on a sheet of paper attached ot the others' back. At the end we all read our sheet. I do this activity with children because I remember the nice feeling I got from it. This is , indeed a poor example.. but it's worth it with shy self conscious children.

laurilla67 — 2017-11-12 17:25:59 UTC

Ana Chirtes, Romania

harsan_ana — 2017-11-12 17:35:45 UTC

Seeing how „The leader of feedback” works, encurage me to implement it in my classroom, especially on PBL projects, where children can learn better when they will recieve more suggestions and values from colegues. I always tell them that we learn by learning from each other, and we learn by teaching something. It”s worth implementing peer assessment in my classroom, I will certainly try it.

Catalina Vrinceanu, Romania

vrinceanu09 — 2017-11-12 17:46:16 UTC

Peer assessment encourages students to developt their qualities better. This type of assessment should be always positive.

PEER ASSESSMENTWhen children exchange their views on how they acted among themselves in activities, they clarify what they have to do, what are the responsibilities of each and every one. They learn to explain and argue, they better clarify sequences and phases of activities. They learn to argue and use a language that is capable of criticizing without arguing. If alone they can not solve a problem that blocks them, I know that I'm available to reflect and find words together to express their criticisms and their needs with their comrades so that they can be together and work with satisfaction and effectiveness.Emma

2017-11-12 17:55:31 UTC

Ivana Budija, Croatia

2017-11-12 19:05:28 UTC

We say that because of the forest we can't see the tree. So peer assessment is good because we get feedback from someone who can see all the good and bad sides of our work.

Cristina Ligeiro - Portugal

cristinaligeiro — 2017-11-12 20:12:23 UTC

In math classes there are many peer assessment moments. Whenever students have to solve exercises, they usually solve them autonomously, but later, they should check with a colleague if the exercises are correct. In this practice, students are called on to help their classmates without solving their problems, but by asking them driving questions to make them realize what is wrong and correct them. In all classes, there are students who stand out for their ability to help colleagues, evaluating their work, without being incorrect and without providing the answers. In this field I am satisfied. Nevertheless, in more open projects (less used) this is not so observed.
Personally I have used “peer assessement” in almost all the work in which I participate. Almost all of my lesson plans are the result of collaborative work among my fellow teachers and in addition I have also worked directly with the direction of the school in this perspective. I have often done the role of "critical friend" in various documents and proposals that school management has developed, in clear peer assessment.
I really enjoy working this way because I am a person who is very open to criticism and I believe in collaborative work.

Svetlana, Serbia

svetlanamed5 — 2017-11-12 20:58:47 UTC

I see all the benefits of peer assissment, and I like to do this in my personal work (like here or some else course..) but, with students can be problem with some of them who dont like assessment and they dont wont to be part of that.

José Ignacio Maide, Spain

maidemerino — 2017-11-12 21:18:32 UTC

I work with young learner (6, 7 years old) and many times they complain about their duties or responsabilities when working together. However, peer assessment is a powerful tool for them to get organized without the help of the teacher.

Karol, Barcelona

karolbarriuso — 2017-11-12 21:29:06 UTC

Peer assessment is commonly used in our school since we work in cooperative groups from a very young age. Kids are used to this kind of assessment, as well as self assessment using rubrics in both cases. At the beginning it is a bit difficult because they tend to be a little too hard on others, but with practice, it becomes a really good tool

Jarfer, Spain

2017-11-12 21:59:20 UTC

Peer assessment is one of the fundamentals in the "actitude learning process". When we implement the peer assessment in the first years, infant, we are building resilience, autonomy, respect, tolerance, etc. It is crucial to do that with first learnes and their parents. Realy important to teach parents in this way. So nothing to add to the rich comments we can find in these contributions.Mine is that: begin the peer assessment as soon as you can do it.

Eleonora, Estonia

eleonora_volovik — 2017-11-12 22:59:38 UTC

When I participated in peer assessment in this course I sometimes had the feeling participants are afraid to offend each other. So they just say compliments, but do not move past the first or second step of feedback ladder. When I was giving a feedback I also worried that maybe my words could upset another teacher. And I also do not feel very competent in PBL approach, so I do not feel I have the rights to criticize other people's work.

Cátia Santos, Portugal

badkat187 — 2017-11-12 23:32:15 UTC

I had never thought of the importance of peer review, so I did not do it often.
Whenever I realized it, I felt that the students are more critical of each other than we are to them. And that sometimes the friendship factor also influence. I now believe that peer evaluation going through the scale decraus will be advantageous and improve my view on peer evaluation.

Paz Gil Samatán (Spain)

pzgies — 2017-11-13 09:38:13 UTC

I use peer assessment in multidisciplinary groups. I divide the class in small groups and set up a specific task. Each member of the group must achieve the goal. Therefore, it is the responsibility of all of them to explain, give feedback, make sure everybody understands and check their peers work. If one member of the group fails all the rest fail too.
Although it may sound hard it really works with my students because they make an effort to get it right and sometimes they understand their peers' explanations better then mine.

Ignacio sánchez, Spain

nachodeva1a — 2017-11-13 16:18:46 UTC

I usually do peer assessment activities as a part of activities reviewing specially for wrtinig exercises. We create rubrics all together for peer assessment, I mean, students and teacher.

Carmen Sáez, Spain

mamenscomet — 2017-11-13 16:55:07 UTC

I strongly think this is a great idea though I don't practise it often. One of the most important points for me is that it gives the student power and they feel more involved in the project, as they know they are going to be assessed by one of their classmates.
In the same way, P2P in this course gives us the opportunity of learning from colleagues all over the world and take into account their pieces of advice.
Although we don't know each other personally, I would feel horrible if I didn't try to do my Learning Design the best I could!! ....I don't really want to feel I have done a useless job!!

Ida, Italy

2017-11-13 17:21:29 UTC

I adopt peer assessement expeccially in Learning activity in groups

Niyazi ALKAN-Turkey

niyazialkan1549 — 2017-11-13 17:23:20 UTC

When used in grading, peer assessment can give the instructor needed information on student performance. Especially for large online classes, it may allow inclusion of assignments where students’ creative work could not be graded reliably through automation or efficiently by teaching staff.

Peer assessment techniques vary considerably, and are often best understood through example. 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. Before students are ready to give feedback to others, their assessments should be compared to staff-grading of the same examples for quality assurance.

Nadia, France

nadia_rouibah — 2017-11-13 18:14:12 UTC

First during this PBL course, I tried to see the qualities in my peers' work, but also I had the desire to be helpful. And I waited about the others opinion on my work, hoping it would be helpful for me so I can go on with the course with new tips.
So I guess the pupils in class have the same feeling : when assessing, they want to help their friend, and when assessed they hope to get some help back.
The point that you are less emotional about your peer's work than your own is very important.
I really think I will try to improve this part in my daily teaching.

Ana, Portugal

ana_biscoito — 2017-11-13 18:19:59 UTC

I use peer assessment daily. Since my students do most of their tasks in peers, or in small groups, this type of assessment comes naturally. Sometimes I give clear instructions on the aspects they should consider when checking their colleagues' work, but at other times I give them freedom of choice, depending on which criteria they consider most important. I also use Padlet as a working tool because it allows each student to have access to the work of the whole class. New ideas and new content are often suggested, and students end up including them in their works, valuing them.

Lola, Spain

lola_nsimon — 2017-11-13 18:21:38 UTC

I have started to use peer assesments last months. I used to get students workign ingroups but I was the person who graded them. They could comment the activity but nothing more. Now I am enthusiastic about the results I perceive.Worwing with rubrics that they create too, I get students be more involved in the process and actiivities. They are imrpoving their works more and more. About the peer assestment in this course, I am not very crtitical. I suppose, all of us want to learn PBL and our practise are on this way according to our background.

Cristina,Romania

2017-11-13 18:51:10 UTC

I use only written peer assesments.Is more easier for my students with hearing loss.I use it in sumative assesment.I always need to instruct the students to give constructive,positive feedback

Raffaella Castellina, Italy

raffaella_caste — 2017-11-13 20:22:31 UTC

I use peer assessment when adopting PBL in the classroom. For example, students in small groups prepare a summary or a presentation about a specific topic in collaborative learning through 2.0 web apps. Then, they introduce their products to the rest of the class, who is invited to evaluate the oral presentation and the digital outcomes. Unfortunately, in Italy we must stick to a law which compels us to use numbers 1-10 to grade every activity and/or test, according to a strict evaluation grid. As a consequence, it is very hard to assess soft skills and quality unless you provide your pupils with precise rubrics.

Natali, Italy

2017-11-13 20:23:11 UTC

The peer assessment experience has given me interesting ideas for my teaching activity and helped me to be more focused on the goals and the relevance of my teaching strategies.

Teuta Dimo, Albania

teutadimo — 2017-11-13 20:29:47 UTC

I adopt peer assessement expeccially in Learning activity dividing the class in groups

Habibe Barut,Turkey

asitane83 — 2017-11-13 21:45:18 UTC

I use peer assessment when my students make a presentation. They act a play at the end of each unit and they give their opinion about the plays. Sometimes they Show their appreciation by clapping their friends.

Alicia Muñoz, Spain

2017-11-13 22:22:38 UTC

I usually do peer assessment in cooperative learning activities.

Renata Kos, Croatia

2017-11-13 23:37:02 UTC

In work with colleagues we were used "feedback sandwich". I used peer assessment with students when they worked in pairs.

Conceição, Portugal

saolsilva — 2017-11-14 01:27:25 UTC

I don't do so much peer assessment as I should. I usually do it for oral presentations and sometimes for writing practice.
I usually do a kind of peer assessment when reading aloud. One student reads and another corrects. When the corrector doesn't correct, the other students in class notice and call the corrector's attention, which means that usually the whole class is paying attention to the reader.This is a very simple reading activity that works.

Juliana - Brazil

julianabeatrizsl — 2017-11-14 01:46:44 UTC

My first experiences participating in a piecemeal evaluation was here in the course.
For me it's been a great learning opportunity. Peer evaluation motivates participation and takes the stress out of traditional evaluative processes with standardized tests.

Javier Sillero, Spain

2017-11-14 07:27:44 UTC

Particularly I use the evaluation by colleagues leaving a time to expose each group their vision and development of the work and thus to be able to receive a feedback of the rest of students and of the teacher

Ana Barbosa, Portugal

2017-11-14 10:22:40 UTC

We have weekly timed meetings to observe project status and each student assesses it self and gets peer feedback according to each KPI's (key personal indicators). It is done in SWOT analysis terms.

Emanuela Toccaceli - Italy

emanuela_toccaceli_et — 2017-11-14 10:25:54 UTC

Peer assessment is very important and I use it daily when i do etwinning activities, when they have to learn a new tool, while using my padlets where my students have to share materials, while preparing videos and sometimes I let one student from a class go to another class to present his work to the others or to explain a tool. Last time I used it was during personal presentation in a 12 students class. while their friend was talking, the other students had to find the mistakes...at the end of the presentation they told their classmates about his/her mistakes. Everyone was listening and concetrating on the presentation.

Ruta Jegnoraite - Juskiene, LT

urvinej — 2017-11-14 11:27:40 UTC

When I give a pair-work, I see, that sometimes student bring their own work in the classroom and college is assessing other work. In the end they combine a final result from the best parts of two works. I have no experience in PBL, but I strongly believe, that there is a great opportunity to me to try this approach in my practical work.

Donka Slavcheva, Bulgaria

dkirovska — 2017-11-14 12:14:45 UTC

Peer assessment is very important for the team work of the students to develop their critical thinking. At first I was worried that students could be subjective, but they were gradually satisfied with the responsibility they had and were really objective in their feedback.

Mª Ángeles, Spain

2017-11-14 12:22:14 UTC

I'm not used to use peer assessment but it seems to me very important and attractive for the students. I am going to use in the next project.

Ramila Almuradova, Azerbaijan

ramilaalmuradova — 2017-11-14 14:47:57 UTC

I often use peer assessment , so that learners can assess one another. I do this with checklists to guide them. This kind of assessment help students to understand their language use and performance better, and so become more autonomous.

Fátima , Portugal

mariafsilva — 2017-11-14 15:31:42 UTC

Peer assessment is not a consolidated practice yet, at least in an everyday activity basis in the classroom. I try to implement it as often as possible mainly when students develop pair or group work. Here's an example of a grid to assess pair / group tasks.

Rubén Mayor, Spain

rmayor — 2017-11-14 16:44:02 UTC

I have used peer assessment with students in projects of the Information Technology subjects, although I have to recognise I was not doing it in a proper way. It was more focused on evaluation (co-evaluation, grading) and it was done by the end of the process. Now I understand that is better to include it in all the steps of the project, specially in the ones where the feedback is crucial to let students improve from a constructive review.

Livia, Italy

liviacentonze_lc — 2017-11-14 17:50:29 UTC

Peer assessment is the best way to assess students, as it motivates them.

Feruze İlkatmış, Turkey

feruzeilkatmis — 2017-11-14 18:26:49 UTC

I think peer assessment is important because students feel comfortable when talkng to friends. It is easy for them to say their opinons to peers.
In my lessons, I let students assess their peers after they created a project, output or paper.

Jose Maria Reillo, Spain

reillo7 — 2017-11-14 19:20:47 UTC

Although I prefer to work in groups with my students in Physical Educational, I have to recognise that peer assessment is very effective. It let them learn and teach on each other at the same time. Even, I really think that this kind of assessment power relationships.
I usually implement this technique in Rhythmic Gymnastics. Each pupil has to assess his partner five skills of every beam (rope, ball, hoop, club and ribbon). Consequently, his peer has to do the same. In this case, it´s a summative assessment.
Nevertheless, this technique can be used as a way of formative assessment too. For instance, we are working long jump in peers. I give them an image about a perfect long jump. In this way, one of them try to do it while his partner is correcting until improving his technique.

Lúcia Ferreira, Portugal

luciamealhada — 2017-11-14 19:43:17 UTC

Peer and self-assessment are very important for students to regulate their own learning by making them more aware of the changes they need to improve performance ... My experience shows me that although initially the students are sympathetic to the friends, with the training, they become progressively more just, critical and responsible. However there is no yet regular and systematic habit of considering peer evaluation as an integral part of classroom activity.

Nicoletta - Italy

nicosando — 2017-11-14 20:20:12 UTC

I reckon that the peer assessment is really important , actually I make use of it in class , as it drives students to be more responsible and critical in evaluating

Pilar Rodríguez, Spain

prodriguez_dpou — 2017-11-14 20:40:48 UTC

I find peer asessment a super powerful tool to use in my classes. I'm a maths teacher and I try to work in cooperative groups to solve exercises and I can see the benefits. My students are more interested in the activities we make and they achieve better results working together and giving each other feedback about the others activities.
In this course, peer to peer assessment is great for me because people that I don't even kjnow are giving me ideas and different points o view thar enrich my work.

David Nuh - Turkey

2017-11-14 20:44:43 UTC

I think peer assessment teaches students to respect each other and value contributions by others. Students learn to craft their language not to heart others. It's a great way to help students improve without the involvement of teachers. When teachers are involved students may think they are being tested and peer assesmeet removes this tension.For these reasons, I would intend to use it at any given opportunity during lessons. I think going through The Ladder of Feedback with the stude and guiding them to create their own early on in the PBL would help to create a positive environment.

Maria, Portugal

mbrito_escola — 2017-11-14 21:33:24 UTC

I think the best way to promote peer assessment is by using rubrics.

Marco, Portugal

2017-11-14 21:57:16 UTC

My peer assessment experience is rather short, such as small feedbacks that students give each other in situations like oral presentations. Define a strategy, with evaluation rubrics, or Ladder of Feedback, seems to me a good beginning. Peer assessmentshould be a motivation for students if they meet the criteria defined.

Mafalda Lapa, Portugal

lapa_mafalda — 2017-11-14 22:29:15 UTC

Peer assessment can be very useful and formative for students because they can learn from each other and they learn to be more resilient, assertive, they leran to comunicate and also to respect the differences. Some years ago, In Portugal, we had a subject named project where I used to use peer assessment and rubrics. It worked very well (although time consuming). IThis course reminds me that have to use it again.

Orbe, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

beorlinda — 2017-11-14 23:13:32 UTC

I really use peer assessment in some activities where we need a quickly feedback about how the lesson is going on.

Gabriela Calheiros, Portugal

gabriela_ctg — 2017-11-15 00:46:05 UTC

Peer assessment has always been part of my classes.
Either in group work or oral presentations, for example, it is in fact, a important feedback for my students.

Ilze Krastina, Latvia

2017-11-15 05:40:38 UTC

I have to admit that peer assessment hasn't been an important part of my lessons. I sometimes use it to get the feedback on students' writing or exercises done in class. What's more, I have noticed that sometimes students don't like that peers suggest changes in their work. But after watching a video I realized that I have to give guidlines for students how to do it by using Leader of Assessment, to do it politely and devote more time to this activity. I will use it when students are asked to do some written assignment, before handing it in to teacher.

Lana, Ukraine

2017-11-15 08:30:59 UTC

Peer assessment is a good way to share best practice between students. Especially when students are responsible for the end result of their study.

Stoyan Faldjiyski, Bulgaria

2017-11-15 10:31:37 UTC

I have used peer assessment in almost all levels of the development of my PBL content. It is a natural to include critiques sessions in the teaching/learning process. You can integrate peer assessment by insuring you have included and expectation for multiple drafts in your PBL.

Evaristo Moreira, Portugal

emsrm — 2017-11-15 11:49:37 UTC

Peer assessment is very interesting, but it has to be positive and follow the steps described in the feedback ladder. Otherwise, it can become a process of negative competition among students.
So far, I have never used this methodology, but I will certainly begin applying it in my classes.

Paola, Italy

paola_tona — 2017-11-15 13:09:32 UTC

I think the peer evaluation is risky because the guys are not accustomed to being evaluated by their peers

Sara, Spain

2017-11-15 14:50:41 UTC

I think, though risky, it is a wonderful idea. However teachers have to control what other students say since they are not used to evaluate others and they can even be mean.

Ana Marques. Portugal

anabmarkes — 2017-11-15 16:01:41 UTC

In my practice, peer assement is not a very consolidated practice, but I believe it is a path that I must deepen. However, sometimes it can be used in the wrong way, so it will be important to create rubrics and evaluation criteria. Feedback ladder seems to be a good instrument.

Paula Gonçalves, Portugal

2017-11-15 16:48:01 UTC

Peer assessment may be very interesting because students learn how to assess themselves by having the responsability of assessing their collegues work. In my classes I usuallly ask the students to assess their collegues work, keeping in mind constructive and positive feedback.

Ilona, Italy

barbero_ilona1 — 2017-11-15 17:32:15 UTC

Peer assessmant may be a good idea to involve students in the learning process, but it must be supervised by the teacher

Konstantina, Greece

konstantinakokmotou — 2017-11-15 17:33:37 UTC

Peer assessment can occur at the end of the learning process.

Maka Marjanidze,Georgia

2017-11-15 17:51:16 UTC

In my opinion,peer assessment can be done both ,during and at the end of the PBL

Rocío, Spain

2017-11-15 18:44:32 UTC

I assess by peer assessment, but It´s a complementary assessment, not the unique. Because I think that students can be more demanding than the teacher.

Helena Paz dos Reis, Portugal

2017-11-15 18:45:21 UTC

I há-de my first contact with Pereira and self-assessment In a course I tookin Barcelona. I was rather glad about it. In this course, I have learn much more about. In my school , at the library, we have a project where students of secundary level work with students of the level below. In the processo, they help them to study, to do their homewok, to understand their dificulteis... These students are supervised by teachers who acompany the work. So, ir is a kind of pee assessment

Orbe, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

2017-11-15 19:13:01 UTC

From my point of view, peer assessment is a great tool to encourage students to be autonomous and take important decision in orden to control their own learning, identify problems and get their callenges.

Elena Italy

elenabalestrieri209 — 2017-11-15 19:30:35 UTC

Peer assessment is motivating and engaging for students. A task completed by a group can be put to votes by the class. This enhances team work and goal-sharing.

Tereza Lombardi, Brazil

lombardi_tereza — 2017-11-15 20:27:58 UTC

I use a lot of peer assessment when my students are doing any kind of writing activity. I ask them to give their texts to a classmate to read and ask for their views and suggestions for improvement. It is really useful and has helped my students a lot.

Lucía Rodríguez Cuenca

rodriguezcuencalucia — 2017-11-15 20:28:44 UTC

I hadn’t heard about the ladder of feedback, but it’s actually a method I am currently trying to teach my students. For the most time students at my school tend to focus on the negative aspects and are rather “destructive” when providing feedback. They haven’t realized yet that collaborating is about helping each other and growing together. To them school is a competitive setting, possibly due to the fact that we adults, teachers and parents, haven’t been able to make it into something better. To at least give it a try and change the mindset, to me it is especially important that my students are thoughtful and helpful when giving feedback to their peers. I always insist that critique should help building something – not tearing it into pieces. We should be kind, sensitive and empathic. Tell your peers what they got wrong or could be improved but do not forget to be kind. And miss the opportunity to mention what you like about their work. To work on this aspect in my classroom I have put up tags with the names of my students on them. Classmates can stick positive messages to a nametag to show that they appreciate the work, help, etc. of that person.

Barbara Roesner, Germany

2017-11-15 20:50:45 UTC

I have the students gather criteria about the aspects that should be considered when the project is graded. We then create a rubric together. Each student has a copy of this rubric in his notebook as a reminder when the students are doing their work. Collaboration about the outcome is stressed because I make them feel that everyone can get super grades if they work together as a class helping each other. They should show what they are doing to other groups to get feed back.One student is picked by product owner to fill out and sign the rubric before that student brings the product to me to be graded. If we are of different opinions then we discuss the differences and give the grade together. This technique works better in Woodworking class than in Physics class.

Catia Horning, Portugal

catia_horning — 2017-11-15 21:19:36 UTC

Peer assessment is a very powerful tool as children sometimes listen to their classmates much more attentively than to the teacher. I use this assessment method in a variety of contexts but my favourite is during oral presentations. I find that students demonstrate that they are clearly aware of the standards that we are aiming for and that the quality of the presentations continuously improve as learners attempt to implement their own critiques in their own work

Iulia, Romania

2017-11-15 21:20:10 UTC

I have to confess that I have always been a big fan of peer-assessment, even when I didn't know its name. It has been precisely the feedback of my colleagues (as a student or as a teacher) which inspired me, made me look for different solutions, helped me improve, challenged me, corrected me! This is why I use it with my students as often as possible, either when working in pairs or among groups or even between groups.

Cristina Cruz, Spain

cristina_cruz — 2017-11-15 21:37:51 UTC

I use peer assessment after the production activities when they discuss in groups about their work, performance, weak points and strengths. They assess their peers talking about what worked and what didn't. Then they create a To-improve list for future tasks. Also, during oral presentations I give my students some rubrics to assess their peers. They love this.

Tasos Ginis, Greece

2017-11-15 22:26:01 UTC

After completing a major step of the procedure, each team presents its findings to the whole class and the other teams can reflect on what is being presented, giving a feedback, which can be very useful.

Katia, Italy

katifets1 — 2017-11-15 23:01:39 UTC

Although I make my pupils work in pairs, and I really like peer-tutoring and peer-learning, I have to say that my lessons lack of peer- assessment, maybe because I didn't think about its imortance cefore the course!
As what regards the course activities, I find the Peer-Review-Activities very interesting and stimulating.

Antonia, spain

llorente259 — 2017-11-15 23:32:04 UTC

I use peer assessment as quite interesting and useful tool. When students have to assess their peers, they are paying much attention on him/her and his/her presentation or whatever.
The feedback that they give their mates help them (both) to improve. Also, I have a lot of information about the students and their learning process, improvement and knowledge.

Sofia Rosado Dias, Portugal

sofia_rosado_dias — 2017-11-16 09:48:07 UTC

I use peer assessment mostly on oral presentations that the students do of their assignments, either individual ou group ones. They can check understanding, ask questions about the work presented and it's a great way for me to check if they have understood what was being presented.

Maria Castro, Portuga

conceicao_castro — 2017-11-16 22:22:47 UTC

The two videos I had the opportunity to watch are very effecting in providing ideas for peer assessment as well as highlighting the advantages and positive outcomes it provides. I totally agree that being assessed by a peer is less stressful and as you are talking to a peer it will be considered a helping hand rather than a critique. Doing peer assessments throughout the PBL activity will also dismistify it a bit and little by little it will be considered a natural and productive part of the process. I confess I haven’t done it in my classes as often as I should and I’ll try to do it in a more regular basis from now on. Great ideas to implement. I really liked it.

Rui Rodrigues, Portugal I usually make my students work in pairs. Peer assessment is a wonderful idea to involve students and teachers.

2017-11-16 22:33:49 UTC

Laura Dominguez, Spain

ldominguez_dpou — 2017-11-17 13:20:55 UTC

As someone participating in peer assessment type activities like on this course, I consider it very useful. Both people are teachers, I mean, we have the same job and can understand each other much better. Besides, it is a success that teachers can communicate and show personal opinions sharing ideas or experiences that can help us to avoid mistakes and improve teaching-learning process.

William, Ecuador

2017-11-17 17:18:56 UTC

Peer assessment is an important tool into the teaching and learning process because, you can use in different activities during the process. In my case, I use peer assessment for check the homework that I Send to my students and also, when I work in groups into the classroom.

Luminita, romania

luminitap2004 — 2017-11-17 20:17:54 UTC

Peer assessment may be very interesting idea

Manuel Fernández, Spain

mfdolon — 2017-11-17 21:35:39 UTC

In my opinion, Peer Assessment for PBL is one of most useful ways of making the students interact individually of in group with others. Basically, with this gadget you push the students into a situation where they have to interact one another, and it is one of the main aims of the PBL: working a collaborating together.

Vítor Silva - Portugal

vitorlousilva — 2017-11-18 01:00:21 UTC

4.3 Peer Assessment for PBL

Peer evaluation demands that students make judgments or comments on the work of others, evidently that this evaluation mechanism implies reciprocity, that is, evaluating others and being evaluated by them.

Pamela, Malta

pamfen — 2017-11-18 16:50:12 UTC

Peer assessment doesn't come naturally to both teacher and the students. One would need to invest from a young age or from the beginning of the scholastic year how to give critique not negative comments. When this is achieved, then peer assessment is great because it helps one improve the task before giving it in thus reflecting upon it.

Sara, Spain

2017-11-18 18:38:21 UTC

Peer evaluations are unique to collaborative projects, and I find that they facilitate a better collaborative process because the teacher considers the student experience. We can use this information to modify the workflow for the next project and hold students accountable for their work (effort, constructive contributions to the team, etc.).

Agnieszka Kryjewska, Poland

2017-11-18 19:30:39 UTC

As part of our work, we teachers in Poland after 2 or 3 years (depending on our teaching level and experience) have to prepare Future Development Programme which ends with special examination in front of experts from Department of Education and School Governing Body. Now I am on my 2nd level and I'm working on to go to 3rd level. A part of that development program is to view other teacher's lessons (who teach this same subject or who are your supervisor) and after that "present" our own lesson to that person. You give each other feedback and you should improve your teaching in the future. In that way it is peer assessment used during development.
If talking about students, sometimes I allow them to give each other feedback. But I must be very careful with it, because students are over criticising each others work without giving proper feedback.
I think peer assessment is more useful for everyone because it gives benefits to everyone (someone mentioned that in a 2nd video). It also gives the idea how other people "read" final work in general.
In my work, when I have an origami workshop and students work on some model, they give each other advice how to read instruction and how to fold it. They used to complain that the (Japanese) books I give them are in Chinese and they can't understand. I told them it is just a matter of pictograms, not side comments to be effective in folding. Now they can work by themselves and prepare nice models while working in small groups.

Alejandro. Spain

2017-11-19 11:52:00 UTC

When students do their presentations In front of the rest of the class, the others students assess them. They have to consider the contents and the presentation in itself.

Adela Muresan, Romania

muresan_gabriela_adela — 2017-11-19 12:54:55 UTC

Peer assessment is a feedback of our work from our peers.

Alessandra Italy

o_alexa — 2017-11-20 16:27:10 UTC

The really interesting video shows how peer evaluation can be a really useful tool in the hands of the educator. I use the rubric and the progress monitor to help students directly learn about progress.

Ana, Spain.

2017-11-20 16:50:56 UTC

Peer assessment is a good resource depending on the characteristics of the group. I have been working with some groups who are very engaging and they used to help a lot each others. Unfortunattely I have seen another students who are very competitive and can make feel their peers bad and unmotivated.

Lola , Spain

lola_nsimon — 2017-11-20 18:33:45 UTC

I like and use peer assesment quite often. I give them basic rubrics ( no more than four) and I hand the student writing out. After reviewing them they spend some minutes talking to the person that have checked their work about the corrections. Finally they orally tell the others what they should improve according to the comments of their peers. They like this activity a lot. My students are 10 years old

Angela Santos

angela_santos — 2017-11-20 19:45:54 UTC

I have learned about the ladder feedback and how it work just now reading the course material. I find it a very useful tool for peer assessment. In my opinion in adult education firstable the students must learn criticism is not the most important thing otherwise the positive construction of learning is not real. In my class students have to do peer assessment but I think we need improve the metodologie.

Alda Santos Portugal

2017-11-22 16:48:37 UTC

The project methodology developed in the History class always implies oral and written evaluation of the work developed by the students. These evaluate the work of each group and within each group each student evaluates the cooperative / collaborative work performed by each one of its members.

María José Sierras, Spain

mjsierras — 2017-11-22 17:35:45 UTC

I realised how positive peer assessment five years ago. Two teachers-to-be came in my classes and observed my teaching practice. Having the chance of reading their feedback made me improve my teaching in class. I thought if it worked for me, it could work for my students too.

Isabel Gama, Portugal

2017-11-22 18:12:17 UTC

As someone participating in peer assessment type activities like on this course, I really feel we learn much more about ourselves with others. It is so helpful to have someone ask us to clarify a certain statement or to make us think about other ways to apply PBL in our classroom. Then, with the suggestions our peers give us, we can reflect on our work and find ways to improve it. When reviewing others in our peer assessment activities it is firstly a great responsibilty. Our peers are expecting us to do the best they can. It is important to read attentively and to clarify any questions we may have. The videos and examples of the Ladder of Feedback have been very helpful. Then we can say what we liked most and comment on any concerns we may have. Then in order to help our peers the best we can, we must give clear suggestions on how, in our opinion, work can be improved. We feel progress both when assessing and being assessed. Since we have to be engaged and focused on positive feedback, there are many advantages!

Imen Tekaya

imen_tekaya — 2017-12-06 11:06:05 UTC

Tunisia
peer assessment is very useful when I would like them to put them selves in my shoes, I give them the assessment grid like the 4C's for example and start watching theire presentations , very oftenly they are more hard than my self, I used it so they don't forget their mistakes and peer's mistakes , they learn the lesson better.

Isabel Quirino, Portugal

isabelquirino — 2017-12-06 17:10:36 UTC

For some of my students, it is easier to assess them selfs after they try to assess others.

Roberto, Italy

2017-12-12 14:28:57 UTC

I make my pupils work as a couple, and I really like peer peer tutoring and peer learning. My lessons are based on a collective evaluation, but I do it according to their content and difficulty.
As for the activities of the course, I find the Peer-Review-Activities very interesting and stimulating.

Maria Carmela, Italy

2017-12-12 14:37:35 UTC