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2. Peer Assessment

3. Copyright © 2012 Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center & North Central Comprehensive Center at McRel Self-assessment Teacher Peers Two Sources of Feedback on Learning Slide 1

4. Copyright © 2012 Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center & North Central Comprehensive Center at McRel Peer Assessment Defined Slide 2 A process in which students provide feedback to each other on a specific task. If the feedback is to be effective, students must have a clear understanding of the task and the criteria, that is, what they should look for in the work (NCLRC, 2008) A learning activity, instead of a scoring or ranking activity (Sluijsmans, 2002) …providing direct and authentic evaluative experience is a necessary (instrumental) condition for the development of evaluative expertise and therefore for intelligent self-monitoring (Sadler, 1989, p.143).

5. Copyright © 2012 Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center & North Central Comprehensive Center at McRel “Research shows that the people providing the feedback benefit just as much as the recipient, because they are forced to internalize the learning intentions and success criteria in the context of someone else’s work, which is less emotionally charged than one’s own.” (Wiliam, 2006, p.6) Why Peer Assessment? Slide 3

6. Copyright © 2012 Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center & North Central Comprehensive Center at McRel Your Turn Slide 4 Review the characteristics of a positive classroom culture on Handout 6.2.1. Why is each of these important for peer- assessment? How does each contribute to student learning? Copyright © 2012 Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center & North Central Comprehensive Center at McRel

7. Your Turn Slide 5 Watch the following video about peer feedback and complete the final column of Handout 6.2.1. What do you notice about the peer assessment process? Video Link Copyright © 2012 Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center & North Central Comprehensive Center at McRel

8. Turn & Talk Slide 6 Where are there good examples of peer assessment in your school/district? How can you build on those practices? If there are no good examples of peer assessment, how could you get it started? Copyright © 2012 Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center & North Central Comprehensive Center at McRel

9. Try It Out Slide 7 Consider how you could use peer assessment in your own classroom. Where would it be helpful to support students’ learning? Write some notes about how you might introduce peer assessment. Share your notes in your small learning group or Teacher Learning Community (TLC) before starting Lesson 3. Copyright © 2012 Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center & North Central Comprehensive Center at McRel