Students are asked to reflect on their own pieces of work, learning and their level of skills using a module specific grading rubric. This encourages students to evaluate their work and identify ways to improve their learning and skills.
Advantages & Challenges
Advantages
Challenges
Advantages
This form of assessment encourages students to reflect and think critically about their own learning process, strengths, and areas for improvement.
It helps to empower students to become more independent learners and develop their ability to identify their own learning needs.
It helps to develop metacognitive skills as students can learn to monitor and improve their own learning strategies.
Self-assessment can be incorporated into many different forms of assessment.
Challenges
Self-assessment may lack objectivity as students may overestimate or underestimate their abilities and performance.
Grading rubrics will need to be shared with students for them to assess their own work. Students may need to be educated about how to use the grading rubric.
The rubric will also need to be clear and easy to comprehend to avoid student confusion.
Tips for Use
Consider how you are going to use self-assessment with students: Is it going to be summative or formative? Is it going to be a stand-alone assessment or as an element of a larger assessment?
Develop a rubric for students to follow when they are assessing their own work.
Consider adding elements of self-reflection for students to identify their strengths and areas for improvement.
