Journal article
Does student engagement in self-assessment calibrate their judgement over time?
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol.38(8), pp.941-956
2013
Abstract
One of the implicit aims of higher education is to enable students to become better judges of their own work. This paper examines whether students who voluntarily engage in self-assessment improve in their capacity to make those judgements. The study utilises data from a web-based marking system that provides students with the opportunity to assess themselves on each criterion for each assessment task throughout a programme of study. Student marks were compared with those from tutors to plot changes over time. The findings suggest that overall students’ judgements do converge with those of tutors, but that there is considerable variation across achievement levels, with weaker students showing little improvement. Whilst the study is limited by the exigencies of voluntary participation and thus consequential gaps in the data set, it shows how judgement over time can be demonstrated and points to the potential for more systematic interventions to improve students’ judgements. It also illustrates the use of the web-based marking and feedback software (ReView) that has considerable utility in aiding self-assessment research.
Details
- Title
- Does student engagement in self-assessment calibrate their judgement over time?
- Authors/Creators
- D. Boud (Author/Creator) - University of Technology SydneyR. Lawson (Author/Creator) - James Cook UniversityD.G. Thompson (Author/Creator) - University of Technology Sydney
- Publication Details
- Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol.38(8), pp.941-956
- Publisher
- Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005540713507891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This output has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
Source: InCites
Metrics
26 Record Views
InCites Highlights
These are selected metrics from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool, related to this output
- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Citation topics
- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.11 Education & Educational Research
- 6.11.31 Self-Regulated Learning
- Web Of Science research areas
- Education & Educational Research
- ESI research areas
- Social Sciences, general