Peer assessment and self-assessment is much more than children marking their own or each other's work. To improve learning, it must be an activity that engages children with the quality of their work and helps them reflect on how to improve it.
Peer assessment enables children to give each other valuable feedback so they learn from and support each other. It adds a valuable dimension to learning: the opportunity to talk, discuss, explain and challenge each other enables children to achieve beyond what they can learn unaided.
Peer assessment helps develop self-assessment, which promotes independent learning, helping children to take increasing responsibility for their own progress
'Find one example you are really proud of and circle it. Tell the person next to you why you are pleased with it.'
‘Decide with your talk partner which of the success criteria you have been most successful with and which one needs help or could be taken even further.'
(After whole-class sharing for a minute or two) 'You have three minutes to identify two places where you think you have done this well and read them to your partner.'
'You have five minutes to find one place where you could improve. Write your improvement at the bottom of your work.'
'Look back at the problems you have solved today. Where were you successful? What approach did you take?
Comments should always be about the learning.; if you say: It is well presented, it is neat and it’s colourful, this doesn’t help explain to the person why the work is good or how it can be improved.
