Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Phil's Big idea 4

Students get more feedback from each other than they can ever get just from us.
This feedback may not be seen by them to be so ‘authoritative’ as feedback from us, but we can address this. Involving students in self-assessment of their own work, and peer-assessment of each others work can help us increase the quality, frequency and relevance of peer feedback. We can legitimise peer-feedback – e.g. by saying ‘don’t hand in your work until you’ve had feedback from at least three other fellow-students’, and by saying ‘when you get your marked work back, look at other students’ marked work and the feedback on their work; you can learn a lot about how to get better marks (and mistakes not to make) from other people’s marked work’.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Andrea,
What do think of this Big Idea?
An Integrated Assessment system which uses the same set of rich tasks to award grades across 4 different subjects ? In other words, instead of Integrated, Learner-Oriented Assessment within a single subject, an Integrated Learner Oriented Assessment which operates across different subjects.

Anonymous said...

Hi Brian

This would seem to me to be a holistic approach - taking into account that learning does not occur discretely in a single course over one single point-in- time but rather as an integrated package of experiences which takes place a particular program.

A blog is one 'system' where students can actually document their learning experiences through reflection and introspection and a suite of rich tasks.

I'm going to pass this one on to Diana because I'm sure she'll have some useful views to add.

Andrea

Dr. Diana Quinn said...

Hi Brian,

Did you hear about the prize for the best Big idea from a delegate?

Befre responding, a clarification please...would the 4 courses all be at the same study period/semester?

Diana