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Self Assessment is the fourth stage of the teacher training cycle
taught in our Assessor courses. It is an essential stage where
students are assessed at various stages of the learning journey and
receive feedback on their progress.
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The lead assessor course specifically qualifies you to assess any type of classroom
or work-based assessments. This course will enable you to become a qualified lead
assessor in your own specialist area.
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What is Self-Assessment?
Self-assessment is an assessment tool used by students to evaluate the
quality of their work, measure their performance with the stated goals and
learning objectives, identify the strengths and weaknesses in their work and
implement revision accordingly.
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Self-assessment practices encourage students to take ownership of
their learning, promote responsibility, independence, and may also
motivate further learning. It is a form of a mindset shift that focuses on
the quality of learning, student responsibility and making judgments as a
necessary skill to inculcate an attitude of problem-solving and lifelong
learning.
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How can self-assessment be practiced
in classrooms?
Increasing student participation is the basics of self-assessment. Through
self-assessments students can identify their own skill gaps, where they
lack knowledge, develop realistic goals and focus attention on learning.
Some useful examples of self-assessment are:
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I can’ statements:
This is a useful practice carried out by teachers at the end of
either every class or by the time a specific unit comes to an end.
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Positive statements:
This helpful technique is useful for learners to look into their
practices, knowledge and abilities and write about their strengths,
commitments and motivation in a convincing way.
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Negative statements:
This is another way to highlight the positive aspects of
oneself. In this, the learners can write about their positive
aspects that bring out negative aspects.
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Advantages
Self-assessment can address specific skills in students, it helps teachers to
evaluate the potential of all students towards learning. Some advantages of
self-assessment may be;
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Personal growth:
it is a result of the activities and areas of your life,
whether personal relationships or communication
skills. It arises from the need to evaluate yourself
and identify your positive and negative areas.
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Exposure:
self-assessment helps students to identify
their areas of improvement. This process of
exposing your strengths and weaknesses isn’t
easy, it moves you towards self-development
and awareness.
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Self-awareness:
you take a more active part in shaping your
personality, skills and competence by taking an
objective look towards how you learn and how you
behave and react to situations.
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Disadvantages
At one point self-assessment proves to be very
beneficial for students and teachers but it might address
some negativity too.
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Subjectivity: it takes a very subjective look at your
personality, the things you do, life experiences, etc.
Self-consciousness or personal complexes about our own
abilities may colour the self-assessment exercise and
therefore an assessor should facilitate the process to ensure
the end result is reflective of the reality (ideally against set
criteria) and is an accurate measure of progress.
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No accountability:
the assessment may begin with you and end at your
evaluation leading some to get stuck with finding a
way out or how to improve. In a few cases,
externalities might influence you to stay determined
towards the change. Again, it is the assessor’s
responsibility to ensure the assessment stays
focused, valid and reliable. These are basic principles
of assessment taught in our Assessor course.
