This document outlines the process of peer assessment. Students will assess each other's work from the analysis stage of a design cycle based on assessment criteria. They will provide feedback and suggestions for improvement. Students will also self-assess their own work and identify areas for improvement to raise the level based on the criteria. The goal is to give useful feedback, understand how work is evaluated, reflect on one's own work, and improve.

1. Peer Assessment

2. Peer Assessment
• What is it?
– Assessing the work of others against an official
assessment criteria.
• Why do it?
– To give others useful feedback and hints on how
they can improve their work
– To help ourselves understand more about how our
work is marked and reflect on our own work
– To get ideas on how to improve our own work

3. Design Cycle
• We have just completed the Analysis stage of
the Design Cycle.
• This included:
– An introduction to the problem/task/Unit Q
– Researching answers to your guiding questions
– A Design Brief
– A Design Specification
– A Test Plan
– An evaluation of your performance so far

4. Assessing this work
• We need to assess this work against the
Assessment Criteria, which is…

5. The Terminology
• Pay close attention to the words in bold on
the criteria. They mark the difference between
the levels that are awarded…

6. Your First Task
• You need to get into pairs
• You have 25 minutes to assess someone else’s
Analysis work that I will provide you with
• You need to make sure you are very strict with
the marking against the criteria
• You need to make sure the student has included
all the different sections of work and that nothing
is missing
• Fill in the feedback sheet I have linked to on the
blog

7. Task Two: Feedback
• We will now feed back to the students who’s
work you have marked in a class discussion.
• Discuss the level you have given and reason
why you have given that level.
• Any suggestions for improvements?
• Anything you think the person did very well?

8. Task Three
• Your next task is to consider your own work and
identify some areas for improvement.
• You have been studying the Assessment Criteria
throughout this lesson and have hopefully considered
whether your own work meets the highest level of this
criteria.
• It is unlikely that everyone in this class has already
achieved a level 6 for this, so take 10 minutes to
consider what level you consider your work to be and
then list some ideas for improvements that can raise
your work up a level.

9. Homework
• Carry out the improvements you have
suggested in the last activity in order to
improve your work and raise its level.