Research shows that students assessing each other and self-assessing is powerful. Moodle has a good way of doing peer assessment (it would be great with a little bit of time flexibility). Part of the Peer Assessment (through the Workshop Module) allows for self-assessment. Students can self-assess just like they assess others in the class.
However, what if a teacher wants students to self-assess prior to (or at the same time) as turning in the work? Or, what if the work exists in the real world and is not a digital essay? How can teachers support students being reflective about their learning?
So, I did a search for the answer. Turns out, I wrote a lengthy post about students self-assessing a couple of years ago.
Today me is really happy that past me wrote that up as clearly as I did.
I’m continuing on the quest to truly answer develop a graceful answer for this. I’d really love for Moodle to provide a cleaner way of handling this. However, I don’t want to wait for that.
One of the teachers that I’m working with has developed a Google Spreadsheet that does allow the student to complete a self-assessment. However, the teacher then also has to manage several copies of the assessment (a spreadsheet done by each student, plus a spreadsheet for each student by the teacher).
Moodle comes so close with several different options, which I wrote up in detail, but doesn’t quite get across the finish line.
My research uncovered quite a bit of “it can be easily”, but no actual examples of how to actually have the students do the self-assessment. (Short of paper. Lots of examples of paper copies, but the same, multiple instances to manage and now you have to be in the same place.)
I’m open for thoughts.
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