What is peer assessment and why use it? Peer assessment is a mode of co-evaluation that involves analysis of a student’s work by other students. Using a rubric to guide their assessment of the ...

In our experience, peer-feedback or peer-review exercises offer a distinct opportunity in the classroom: students can benefit from both giving and receiving written input from others in all ...

While the content and focus of feedback offered to students will depend on each individual course and assignment, several principles transcend disciplinary boundaries. When setting up feedback ...

Collaborative learning offers students invaluable opportunities to develop teamwork skills that are crucial for professional success. In film-making courses, it is particularly critical, as producing ...

Self assessment means the process of having the learners critically reflect upon, record the progress of and perhaps suggest grades for, their own learning. The term peer assessment refers to the ...

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...

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Each year, thousands of students and families read the U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges to help them find the best college for their educational future. People use rankings, ratings and ...

In the first two quarters of 2020, much of the global workforce was suddenly, if reluctantly, thrust into a dependence on virtual work. Employees at all levels learned to hold videoconferences for ...

Self and Peer assessment may not be a known practice to all students, therefore it may be useful to consider at the planning stage some of the issues that students may raise and devise the best way to ...