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Is it just increased use of peer assessment?" "No.
Assessment for learning, which has been presented to teachers as some kind of complex grail, is increased use of peer assessment, self-assessment and of teacher assessment.
Taking on the likes of peer assessment ("I would much prefer to get my work marked by a teacher than Joseph Barker who has been picking his nose for the last half an hour") and sitting poorly-behaved students next to their well-behaved peers, this is one of my favourites.
This article presents a conceptual framework in which the training of peer assessment skills by means of peer assessment tasks is integrated in teacher education courses.
The present study also investigated the attitudes of learners towards the use of peer assessment.
As "few student evaluations of peer assessment are reported" (Falchikov, 1995, p. 177), the findings reveal that studies on students' attitudes to this practice are confused and inconclusive.
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Reviewing the literature related to the outcome of studies on peer assessment of writing, Topping (1998) found that it "appears capable of yielding outcomes at least as good as teacher assessment and sometimes better" (p. 262).
The experiment contained two rounds of peer assessments.
According to our meta-analysis the IRR of peer assessments is quite limited and needs improvement (e.g., reader system).
Based on this result, Goldman [90] considered the IRR of peer assessments to be quite limited and in need of improvement.
With respect to Cohen's Kappa, a meta-analysis of studies examining the IRR of the standard practice of peer assessments of quality of care published by Goldman [90] found a similar result: The weighted mean Kappa of 21 independent findings from 13 studies was.31.31
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