Semester
-4
Peer evaluation
Peer
evaluation provides a scalable solution for assessment of activities. In the
process learners are asked to submit their work and then evaluate the work of
their peers. It is generally facilitated through the use of rubrics. It is of
vital importance in courses where there are a large number of learners and
manual grading by instructors is not possible. Wikieducator Peer Evaluation is
a minimalistic tool that can be used for student/learner peer review and self-evaluation.
It can be integrated to wiki content or can be used as a standalone tool. It is
very simple to set up the tool for customized rubrics.
Peer evaluation
is the process in which teachers use their own direct knowledge and experience
to examine and judge the merit and value of another teacher's practice. Peer
stands for teachers in both roles under equivalence in assignment, training,
experience, perspective and information about the setting for die practice
under evaluation. The evaluating teacher should not teach at the same school
and should not be concerned with each-other socially or professionally.
Objectives
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To create a platform for WikiEducator
courses to support Peer Evaluation.
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To analyze what are the best ways to
implement Peer Evaluation and test what works best for particular kinds of
activities.
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The larger goal of the project is to
demonstrate the possibility of fully scalable and autonomous OERu courses,
which function without assigned instructors, and formal credit can reliably
be given for them.
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Advantages of Peer Evaluation:
(i)
Teacher colleagues are familiar with school goals, values and problems.
(ii)
Teachers know the subject-matter, curriculum, instruction material.
(iii)
Teachers are aware of actual demand, limitations and opportunities.
(iv)
Teachers get a proper feedback.
(v)
Good judgment of subject-matter.
(vi)
Peer evaluation removes teacher-teacher isolation.
(vii)
A sense of professionalism is strengthened with the idea of shared knowledge.
(viii)
Peer evaluation offers an opportunity to teachers to plan, design, and research,
evaluate and prepare teaching materials together.
Disadvantages of Peer Evaluation:
i.
It is not as easy as it sounds.
ii.
It is not realized properly.
iii.
It can create doubts about teaching abilities.
iv.
It is not helpful for individuals.
v.
It has not a proper trust.
Peer Evaluation Criteria of Good:
(i)
Position approach.
(ii)
Bottom up growth.
(iii)
Voluntary participation.
(iv)
In-depth study.
(v)
Professional cooperation.
(vi)
Respect.
Self-reflection
Self-reflection is
the capacity of humans to
exercise introspection and the willingness to learn more about
their fundamental nature, purpose and essence.
The earliest historical records demonstrate the great interest which humanity
has had in itself. Human self-reflection is related to the philosophy of
consciousness, the topic of awareness, consciousness in
general and the philosophy of mind.
ADVANTAGES
That involves
actively the students in the classrooms, and gives them the power to evaluate
themselves.
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It has a direct impact on the learning
process.
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Gives feedback into the learning
process.
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Feedback from the self- ü It can provide
the teacher with very practical and functional information about what students
want from the course, the progress that they have made, their difficulties,
their favorite activities or even some suggestions or improvements that the
teacher can implement later on.
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Therefore, it helps students to think about
their own learning, learning progress and problems, and then, find ways to
improve.
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If well answered, self- assessment is a very
efficient method of getting information, because it gathers direct answers
provided by the students themselves.
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It is a crucial stage of the learning
process; therefore it mustn’t be forgotten or given less importance in the
learning or teaching process.
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As it was previously mentioned, it is
an excellent way for the teacher to identify problems, difficulties or
questions that the students may have.
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When students are able to analyze their own
progress, they can find ways, methods or strategies to make improvements and be
better students and learners.
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Some students tend to ignore the
corrections, suggestions or feedback made by the teachers: but when a learner
is somehow forced to correct himself/herself, there exists a higher probability
that those errors will be analyzed, and omitted.
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There is a very wide variety of
techniques for self-assessment, so the teacher can choose the one that she
considers best for the class.
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As teachers, we can decide when to
apply the self-assessment, whether it is applied at the beginning, middle or
end of the course.
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It helps the students to get a
better idea of the goals that they are trying to reach.
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It can give feedback to the teacher about the
students’ progress, without having the need to correct or revise every single
piece of work or homework made by the students, so it can be very time saving.
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It is a process assessment can give
teachers useful information that helps them to plan a lesson.
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Students can take responsibility for their
own learning.
DISADVANTAGES
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Students can be undecided or if they
haven’t received enough feedback from the teacher, they may have doubts
regarding to the progress that they have made; therefore they can provide wrong
answers, making the self-assessment process invalid.
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Students need to have a very high degree of
consciousness, so they can be able to analyze the errors that they have made,
but most importantly, their performance during the course or unit.
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Self-assessment can be very time consuming,
so as teachers we have to plan it beforehand and write an adequate format, so
it doesn’t take students too long to answer it, and so it is easy to check.
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Sometimes, it is only suitable for
intermediate to higher levels, because they are more aware of the importance of
the process, and they analyze a lot easier.
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Maybe the most significant disadvantage of
all, would be the lack of maturity. Some students are not ready to have a
self-assessment task, mostly because they aren’t aware of the seriousness or
importance of the process; therefore they tend to give themselves a higher
grade, which alters the final result. It can also happen the other way around,
but we believe that this is the most common.
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Another aspect, very linked to the above one,
would be that as teachers, we have to make it clear to students that
self-assessment won’t have an important weight on their final grades,
otherwise, the same situation as the one mentioned above can repeat itself.
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Needs to be integrated with other classroom
activities.
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class
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No. peer evaluation and self-reflection
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Peer evaluation
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8&9
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10
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Self-reflection
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8&9
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30
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